After an Oregon state-court judge ruled in June that a Portland ordinance banning individuals from sitting or lying on the sidewalk was unconstitutional, authorities are reportedly trying new tactics to…
The Obama administration plans to overhaul the much-criticized detention system for immigration violators so that detainees will be housed in more suitable facilities.
A Seattle police officer who shot a 52-year-old lawyer during a 2006 traffic-related melee has now been charged with suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol in an unrelated…
To comply with constitutional standards for the treatment of prisoners, California should release 43,000 inmates over the next two years, a special panel of three federal judges has ruled.
Reportedly far ahead of the United States in developing a network of closed-circuit television cameras with which to keep an eye on the activities of misbehaving citizens, the United Kingdom…
The controversial disorderly conduct arrest last month of Harvard University professor at his own Cambridge, Mass., home continues to create fallout far from the original scene, two weeks after officials…
Corrected: The ABA policy-making House of Delegates passed by an overwhelming voice vote a resolution calling on Congress to repeal a section of the Defense of Marriage Act that denies…
When the U.N. General Assembly convened a World Summit in 2005, it set forth the doctrine that states have an obligation to protect their citizens from genocide, war crimes and…
Who says you can’t put a price tag on marriage equality? Not the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, a think tank at the UCLA School of…
Aggravated by the recent arrest of Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for disorderly conduct in Cambridge, Mass., a 33-year-old Washington, D.C., lawyer says he chanted “I hate police”…
Some Republican lawmakers are asking the Justice Department to refile civil charges against the New Black Panther Party in a controversial voter intimidation case.
The “beer summit” called by President Barack Obama to help resolve racism concerns sparked by the disorderly conduct arrest of a Harvard University professor at his own home by Cambridge,…
Attorney General Eric Holder recalls a trip to Washington, D.C., in college when a police officer pulled him over and demanded to search the trunk of his car.
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