Nearly 45 years after a landmark federal fair housing law was enacted, and 20 years after a Multnomah County study determined that housing discrimination was still widespread in the Portland,…
In a divided decision on Friday, the top court in Nevada granted a stay that prevents officials in Henderson from euthanizing a 120- or 130-pound dog that killed a toddler…
On June 26, 1973, the growing Watergate scandal was already a year old, and John W. Dean III, President Richard M. Nixon’s former White House counsel, was in his second…
House of Delegates member Margaret Masunaga of Kealakekua, Hawaii, traveled quite a distance to attend their first ABA Day in Washington event. Photo by Marco Garcia.
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LIke a growing number of states, Illinois has a law that expressly allows mothers to breast-feed their babies in public, even if they do so in a manner that others…
A high-tech system of pinpointing the location from which gunshots have been fired and alerting police within a few minutes is now being used by nearly 70 cities.
Rudolph Tollefson is the only attorney in North Dakota who has had his law license suspended due to late child-support payments, according to the director of the state agency that…
Hotels, water parks, and other facilities with pools recently got another extension to comply with American Disability Act standards, the Associated Press reports.
The Philippine Supreme Court chief justice, accused of stealing money from the country and in the middle of an impeachment trial, yesterday stated that he did nothing wrong by not…
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