The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of former Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, overturning two counts of lying to ...

Thompson basically asked the Supreme Court, “when is a lie a lie?” It took his side, but the conviction of the former City ...

The Supreme Court on Friday threw out a ruling by a federal appeals court in Chicago that upheld the conviction of Patrick Daley Thompson, who served four months in a federal prison for making false ...

The court ruled a statute used against the former Chicago alder doesn't apply to statements that are misleading but not false ...

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a Chicago political scion in his criminal appeal Friday, agreeing an anti-corruption ...

The justices unanimously said a law prohibiting “any false statement or report” did not cover misleading assertions that fell ...

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the unanimous opinion, which does not overturn Thompson’s conviction but undoes a later ruling from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirming it. Roberts on ...

Despite giving a Chicago man a chance to argue that his statements to a loan servicer were misleading but not false, the ...

Former Chicago City Council member Patrick Daley Thompson may have made "misleading" statements about more than $200,000 in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday sided with former Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, finding that a law he’d been convicted under outlaws false statements but not misleading ones, as his ...