A disorderly conduct case against a prominent Harvard University professor arrested last week at his own home by Cambridge, Mass., police will be dropped by the Middlesex County District Attorney’s…
A federal judge is mulling possible sanctions for multiple Central Intelligence Agency lawyers and two other CIA employees including a former director after finding that the agency committed fraud while…
Updated: Harvard University’s Henry Louis Gates Jr. is facing a disorderly conduct charge, after being arrested by Cambridge police on Thursday while trying to enter his own locked home near…
Lloyd Gaines achieved an important victory in 1938 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the black man had to be admitted to the University of Missouri School of Law if…
New York City, without admitting liability, will pay a $10,000 settlement to a fan who was ejected from a New York Yankees game in August after attempting to leave his…
Defense counsel for an attorney and former New Jersey lawmaker accused in a child pornography case must be given access to the images allegedly found on Neil Cohen’s computers, a…
More litigation is likely to follow Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on behalf of white firefighters who sued over a decision to throw out a promotional exam.
Headlines proclaiming the reversal of a federal appeals court ruling by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are off the mark, according to a journalist who has covered the high…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on behalf of white firefighters challenging a decision to throw out a promotional exam because no blacks got top scores.
The U.S. Supreme Court will issue a decision today in a case brought by white firefighters challenging a decision to throw out a promotional exam because no blacks got top…
Seattle employees who have joined a city-sponsored group for gay and lesbian workers are slowly losing an uphill battle to keep their names and sexual orientation private.
After wrestling with the concept of deliberate indifference, a federal jury in Texas today awarded $5 million to a man wrongfully convicted in a kidnapping and rape case more than…
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