A cell phone video of the fatal shooting of apparently unresisting black man by a white transit police office in Oakland, Calif., has put the local district attorney on the…
Reversing a trial judge, a Washington appeals court struck down today as unconstitutional a state law permitting a juvenile accused of chronic truancy to have his or her case initially…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide a reverse discrimination case challenging a city’s decision to throw out a firefighter promotion test because of poor results for minorities.
The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted a “powder keg” voting rights case that challenges the law requiring Justice Department clearance for changed election procedures in certain jurisdictions.
The U.S. Supreme Court could decide as early as today whether to hold a hearing on an appeal that contends a section of the Voting Rights Act renewed two years…
Corrected: As March oral arguments near in a much-watched U.S. Supreme Court case about the circumstances under which a judicial campaign contribution should require a jurist’s recusal, a substantial number…
A municipality in suburban Chicago violated the First Amendment rights of residents when it imposed greater restrictions on those who wanted to criticize the city in public protests, a federal…
A lesbian mother of two is asking a Tennessee appellate court to remove a “paramour” clause in her child custody agreement that prevents her longtime partner from staying the night.
Al Meyerhoff, a labor lawyer who lead a landmark class-action lawsuit against American clothiers operating sweatshops on the island of Saipan has died of complications from cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical…
In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed today by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, the agency says an upscale California seaside community is violating constitutional law and the Americans…
In a report today that appears likely to ignite further controversy over a fringe religious group that advocates polygamy, Texas Child Protective Services says more than one in four pubescent…
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