Slammed into a courtroom window frame by a county sheriff’s deputy as a security camera rolled, a now-former Denver inmate says he suffered a head injury and broken teeth as…
Applying strict scrutiny, a divided three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled Monday that a district court judge in Virginia got it right earlier this year when she Jul 28, 2014 6:40 PM CDT
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Poland to pay damages to two terrorism suspects who were interrogated at a secret CIA jail in the country.
A Michigan judge who admittedly had an affair with the wife of a man in a child-support case before his court won’t have to face a federal civil rights case,…
Macy’s has settled various discrimination lawsuits that allege department store personnel targeted people of color for suspected credit card fraud and shoplifting.
An inmate who filed a handwritten federal lawsuit in 2009 alleging that Missouri prison employees had failed to provide him with toothbrushes and toothpaste has settled his case on the…
A California state trial court has handed partial victories to both a transgender college student and the religious school that expelled her, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Friday.
Corrected: Utah announced on Wednesday that it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a recent decision by the 10th Circuit and uphold its same-sex marriage ban.
Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Seattle against Attorney General Eric Holder and other U.S. officials. They contend it is “fundamentally unfair” to require children…
Love is not in the air behind the scenes at Tinder: One of the founders of the popular matchmaking app has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her former partners,…
A divided federal appeals court panel in Denver on Wednesday upheld a decision by a federal judge in Utah that a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional under the…
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