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A judge for the US District Court for the District of South Carolina on Monday placed a hold on a lawsuit over the state's new immigration law pending the outcome of a similar case to...

On Sunday, January 1, 2012, a number of new state laws took effect ranging from abortion, gay rights, immigration and more. California became the first state to require public schools to teach the positive contributions of gays and lesbians...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of South Carolina on Thursday blocked portions of South Carolina's controversial immigration law . The legislation requires police officers to check a suspect's immigration...

JURIST Contributing Editor Stephen Halbrook, Counsel for the National Rifle Association in the case of Messerschmidt v. Millender, argues that the police violated clearly established gun ownership rights in seizing the guns of all those present within the searched premises...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged all sides in Yemen to cease ongoing deadly attacks and live up to previous commitments to investigate the serious human rights violations of its...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Johnson of the University of California Davis School of Law says that Alabama's immigration law highlights the civil rights implications of the recent state immigration laws and, in the case of Alabama, show parallels with previous...

Sixteen Latin American, Caribbean and South American governments have filed supporting briefs in a lawsuit filed last week by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) challenging the South Carolina's newly adopted immigration law [SB 20...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit on Monday in the US District Court for the District of South Carolina to challenge the state's newly adopted immigration law [SB 20...

A federal judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona on Friday dismissed a counterclaim filed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) and state Attorney General Tom Horne ...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Tuesday that 396,906 illegal immigrants were deported in 2011 , the largest number in the agencies' history. The report indicated that...