Saying that sovereign immunity prevents a widow from holding the government liable for a mountain goat’s fatal attack on her husband while he was hiking at Olympic National Park, a…
An elected Texas judge seeking a tax increase to shore up law enforcement says the officers will be needed in the event of a United Nations takeover of the United…
The chief of staff at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has taken a voluntary paid leave pending a review of allegations in a lawsuit claiming she created a discriminatory work…
There was little or no nostalgia for Broward County’s soon-to-be-former 52-year-old courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as work began on a new $213 million building that will be constructed on…
A woman allegedly held captive and abused for a decade by an aunt who is a convicted killer has filed a civil rights suit against the city of Philadelphia and…
Corrected: Florida lawmakers agreed today to let state court clerks spend an additional $29.5 million, following budget cuts that jeopardized hundreds of jobs.
A federal judge in Florida says a contractor hired by the city of Tallahassee must disclose red-light-camera traffic ticket information to a newspaper that requested it, despite an arguable conflict…
A retired former justice of the Montana Supreme Court is temporarily serving as a justice of the peace in Lake County, after her longtime predecessor on the Polson court seat…
In recent years, government officials in California and elsewhere have increasingly turned to court injunctions to try to keep known gang members from running the streets.
In a long-awaited ruling (PDF) that could add another $60 million to the $120 million the state of California previously got from other insurers, the California Supreme Court…
A federal statute enacted after a California actress was murdered by a stalker who got her address from state motor vehicle records also applies to parking tickets, a federal appeals…
A Nevada attorney and his 23-year-old client are both facing felony charges after a claimed jailhouse sexual encounter that authorities say was captured on camera.
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