On the eve of a confirmation hearing for President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, the White House has agreed to allow some federal lawmakers to see a classified…
Apparently agreeing with a retired Oregon judge’s complaint that a sitting district attorney and a defense lawyer used an “undeniably invalid order” when committing a mentally ill man to the…
After nearly 30 years of litigation over the financing of public schools in Texas, a state-court judge in Austin has decided that the state legislature has failed to meet its…
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of the most important civil rights statutes in American history. The constitutionality of a crucial provision of the act—Section 5—is in doubt,…
Azizah al-Hibri, professor emeritus at the University of Richmond School of Law and founder of Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. Photo by Stacy Zarin Goldberg.
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Does New York’s ban on the sale of large sugary soft drinks harm minorities? The answer is yes, according to an amicus brief by the New York chapter of the…
Just one lawyer has been appointed to a group making policy recommendations after the Sandy Hook school shootings, but she says her legal background was not the reason she got…
A lawyer for an employee for the city of Kingman, Ariz., says she was fired in violation of her constitutional right to freedom of association because her husband is a…
Updated: An Americans with Disabilities Act case involving a deaf Michigan man denied a lifeguard position because he needed an sign language interpreter was reinstated Thursday in the Cincinnati-based 6th…
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