A $900,000 jury award in an employment discrimination case, including $600,000 in punitive damages, has been reversed by a federal appeals court because a lawyer for the plaintiff during closing…
A person who identifies as “spansexual”—neither man nor woman—may register a “nonspecific” gender on official certificates in New South Wales, Australia’s High Court ruled last week.
After a young woman he had allegedy beaten fled the state with their infant daughter, a Washington man tricked the legal system into taking the baby from the mother without…
Jeffrey Fisher, who represents Riley in the Supreme Court: “The police shouldn’t have any access to a cellphone’s digital content.” Photo courtesy of Fisher.
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A federal judge’s ruling last year that an Oregon county had violated the First Amendment by restricting jail mail to postcards resulted in a $15,000 payment to the plaintiff, Prison…
A corrections officer at Rikers Island in New York City has been criminally charged for allegedly doing nothing to aid a mentally ill inmate who had swallowed a toxic “soap…
The federal judge who found that Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s department was illegally profiling Latinos and ordered remedial measures, with court oversight, hauled Arpaio and Chief Deputy Jerry…
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in the two most high-profile cases of this term to consider whether it violates the religious freedom of secular corporations to force…
Henry Ramsey Jr., a path-breaking lawyer, judge and former dean of Howard University School of Law, died March 14 after suffering a stroke at home in Berkeley, Calif. He was…
Fred Phelps Sr., who tested the boundaries of free speech as the founding pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, known for its picketing of military funerals and opposition to homosexuality,…
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