The Supreme Court on Friday added more than a dozen cases for its term starting Monday, including a lawsuit by the Mexican government seeking to hold U.S. gunmakers liable for violence there, a death penalty appeal and a lawsuit by a woman who says she was discriminated against for being heterosexual.
Nibi, a furry female beaver taken in by wildlife rescuers, has become a household name in Boston—and now her future is set to be determined in a court case that has made national headlines and garnered the attention of the state governor.
A federal judge will allow a temporary restraining order that prevented President Joe Biden from discharging student loan debt for more than 25 million Americans to expire Thursday, clearing the way for the administration to move forward with the plan.
We now have the most extensive new detail in years about former President Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 election, in the form of a much-anticipated filing from special counsel Jack Smith. It features some significant revelations and quotes that could be important not just for the legal battle, but for the 2024 election.
A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission can proceed with its case that Amazon operates as an illegal monopoly, handing agency chair Lina Khan a preliminary win in her legal campaign to rein in the power of Big Tech companies.
A sweeping bill introduced by a Democratic senator Wednesday would greatly increase the size of the Supreme Court, make it harder for the justices to overturn laws, require justices to undergo audits and remove roadblocks for high court nominations.
The D.C. Court of Appeals on Thursday revoked Rudy Giuliani’s ability to practice law in the District after an attorney discipline board found the former New York mayor and personal attorney for Donald Trump violated the terms of his license while challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election.
A sheriff in eastern Kentucky will make his first court appearance Wednesday morning, nearly a week after he was accused of shooting a local district judge in a courthouse killing that shocked and mystified the small Appalachian town of Whitesburg.
Canadian lawyer Laura Murphy, 28, is on a solo honeymoon after her fiance unexpectedly died the month before their wedding date. “It’s very out of character for me to be traveling alone, and it’s even more out of character to be documenting it for the world,” she said. “Before this, I thought of myself as a very private person.”
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to order Nevada officials to include Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein on the November ballot. The justices without explanation left in force a Nevada Supreme Court decision that said the party failed to comply with a key requirement in gathering the signatures needed to put Stein on the ballot.