The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday reinstated a challenge to a Pittsburgh ordinance establishing a 15-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) challenged...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday denied a motion to reconsider a three-judge panel's ruling in favor of a transgender Virginia student. The case, G.G. v. Gloucester County School...
Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo military commissions, settled a freedom of speech lawsuit on Tuesday against the Library of Congress after Davis was terminated from his position as assistant director of the Congressional Research...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday challenged a federal judge's order requiring DOJ lawyers to attend ethics classes. Judge Andrew Hanen of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday refused a request to decide on whether the death penalty is unconstitutional. Lamondre Tucker, who murdered his pregnant girlfriend in 2008 asked the court to grant certiorari in Tucker v....
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Tuesday in State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. v. United States ex rel. Rigsby , a case concerning allegations that the insurance company defrauded the government...
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in United States Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., Inc. that the Corps' determination that a property contains waters protected by the Clean Water Act (CWA) ...
The US District Court for the Southern District of California ordered Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday to release internal documents pertaining to Trump University, the terminated education program that is currently...
California Governor Edmund G. Brown signed Senate Bill 1408 into law on Friday, allowing HIV-positive individuals to become transplant donors to HIV-positive recipients. The California Legislature passed the bill earlier that day. Brown and the...
The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday vacated its prior ruling refusing to recognize same-sex adoption. In its short opinion , the court stated that "the Court of Civil appeals and the Jefferson Family Court erred in...