David Skeel points out that federal judge Laura Taylor Swain could serve as a counterweight to prevent the new composition ...

The upheaval of Puerto Rico’s financial oversight board is slowing down the bankruptcy of its power utility as the judge overseeing the case suspended a near-term filing deadline and asked for a ...

Judge Laura Taylor Swain said a “carousel” of jail leaders had failed to stop violence. She ordered lawyers for the city and prisoners to show her what a receivership might look like.

But Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain’s order Tuesday kicking off the process to appoint such a manager marks a turning point in the horrific history of the city’s jails because of ...

Once more, Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain has found the city and the Department of Correction in contempt of court — 18 counts this time around — for a lack of progress in ...

Instead, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain said she would appoint an outside manager to “take all necessary steps” toward restoring order inside the jails and bringing the city into ...

In a written ruling, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan said the city had placed incarcerated people in “unconstitutional danger” by failing to comply with 18 separate ...

Steve J. Martin, who tracks conditions in the jails on behalf of federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain in the ongoing civil rights case known as Nunez v. the City of New York, said in his first update ...

Laurelton: After reading Correction Officers' Benevolent Association President Benny Boscio's statement heavily contesting Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain's ruling, and suggesting the ...

When Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered the parties in the Rikers Island litigation to come to a joint agreement on the potential structure and powers of a federal receiver tasked ...