Litigator David Boies acknowledged Tuesday that a U.S. Supreme Court win in his challenge to California’s ban on gay marriage could fall short of the victory he is seeking.
Disagreeing with a recommendation by a magistrate that a civil rights case should be dismissed, a federal judge in Denver gave a green light on Monday to a family’s lawsuit…
The U.S. Supreme Court has once again agreed to decide whether Fair Housing Act cases may be based on disparate impact analysis, and once again an agreement could derail the…
A retired income partner of Patton Boggs has sued the law firm for alleged disability discrimination, contending that the firm treated him less favorably than other attorneys after he suffered…
A high school valedictorian has gotten legal counsel after a Texas high school reportedly made good on a threat to turn off the microphone if he deviated from a preapproved…
A transgender teen talked to reporters on Wednesday after the Maine Supreme Judicial Court considered whether she was entitled to use a girls’ bathroom at school under the state’s human…
Two Harvard alumni are launching a nonprofit civil rights law firm, thanks to a new program that awards grants to grads working in public service, including grads who create their…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Dollar General Corp. and a BMW manufacturing plant for their use of criminal background checks in hiring or firing.
In the first step in a process that could eventually lead to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the legality of a sweeping telephone records review revealed last week by…
Despite physical evidence that supported her story that a stranger had bound, gagged, raped and photographed her in 2008 in the transitional housing apartment in which she was living, an…
Responding to news reports about a secret federal court order under which the U.S. government apparently collected cellphone records for tens of millions of Verizon customers, federal lawmakers said Thursday…
Even as a national consensus seems to be moving toward reducing or eliminating criminal consequences for possessing marijuana intended for personal or medical use, a report (PDF) released…
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