The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave CNN a partial victory in a suit demanding it provide closed-captioning on all videos posted on its website, but then…
Two New York City men are poised for release at a Thursday court hearing, after serving over 20 years for murders they did not commit, defense lawyers say.
On Jan. 17, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases that hopefully will force it to bring the Fourth Amendment into the 21st century. In United States v.…
A federal district judge in Connecticut has upheld the state’s gun control law that was enacted following the December 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
After a decision earlier this month by a divided federal appeals court panel that the state of Massachusetts must pay for a prison inmate’s sex-change surgery, the Department of Correction…
A murder defendant successfully sought a trial delay after pointing out in a handwritten petition to a North Carolina court that notes from a lawyer who had formerly represented him…
A motion to resolve two cases that accuse the New York City Police Department of unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices was filed Thursday in the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court…
Updated: A Missouri death row inmate Tuesday evening got a temporary stay of execution from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, based on questions regarding the execution drug’s quality and…
In light of lethal-injection drugs being in short supply, coupled with questions about their effectiveness, a Missouri state senator recently proposed that his state bring back firing squads as an…
Ordered to spend 48 hours in jail in August for violating test rules for her drug program, an Indiana woman was released last week, 154 days later, after becoming lost…
Inmates in one Arizona county’s jails have been placed on a bread-and-water diet for desecrating the U.S. flags that hang in their cells, authorities said.
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