The Supreme Court held that it is cruel and unusual punishment for the government to execute a mentally retarded individual, but it never has explained how it is to be…
A federal judge in Texas has struck down the state’s constitutional and statutory ban on same-sex marriage, agreeing with the plaintiffs that the ban violates their right to equal protection…
Calling a junior high basketball coach’s short-hair rule for boys a violation of the constitutional right of equal protection under the law, a divided federal appeals court Monday reversed a…
After news broke this week that a contractor was being sought by a Department of Homeland Security agency to create a computerized national database of information gathered by license-plate reading…
A Georgia teen fatally shot by a police officer when he opened the front door of the family’s mobile home in Euharlee on Friday was holding a Wii remote, not…
In a Wednesday court filing approved the same day by a Manhattan federal district court judge, the state of New York has agreed to sweeping reform of its solitary confinement…
In an unusual First Amendment challenge to a revised state law seeking to protect individual privacy, two companies that offer license-plate readers and data services to private businesses such as…
Could a gay couple serving time at the same prison share a cell, following the Obama administration’s recent announcement that it would extend more federal legal recognition…
New guidelines that are to be issued Monday by the Department of Justice call for same-sex couples who are legally married to be treated, as much as possible, the same…
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave CNN a partial victory in a suit demanding it provide closed-captioning on all videos posted on its website, but then…
Two New York City men are poised for release at a Thursday court hearing, after serving over 20 years for murders they did not commit, defense lawyers say.
On Jan. 17, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases that hopefully will force it to bring the Fourth Amendment into the 21st century. In United States v.…
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