After more than a year of lawyer-led protests over the breakdown of the rule of law helped force parliamentary elections that brought opposing parties to power, the president of Pakistan…
Attorneys representing a 34-year-old Hong Kong man being held by U.S. authorities in an immigration case are seeking a criminal investigation of his death last week, apparently as a result…
In what one critic describes as a signpost of our “always-on, surveillance society,” police departments increasingly have been secretly using GPS, without seeking search warrants, to track the movements of…
The federal government has filed what it bills as the first lawsuit in Manhattan over the construction of a multifamily building that allegedly didn’t meet fair housing standards.
Even as the federal government focuses on gang-related criminal activity as an enforcement priority, helping to organize major raids and providing money to local authorities to enhance their efforts, widespread…
Criminally charged with allowing their disabled 14-year-old daughter to die from neglect, a Pennsylvania couple have sued child welfare agencies and workers for damages over her death.
Federal and state legislatures should ban racial and ethnic profiling, according to a resolution passed by the ABA’s 555-member policy-making House of Delegates this afternoon.
A tactic to soften up Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects, in which they were frequently moved from cell to cell to disorient them and prevent them from sleeping, was banned in…
Former NBA All-Star Joe Barry Carroll has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against a popular Atlanta tavern, claiming that while other while men were sitting at the bar, he…
Updated: Four groups representing law professors and legal writing professionals are threatening to boycott the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools because of the views of the…
Confirming what some had previously feared, federal agencies say they can confiscate travelers’ laptops at U.S. borders for virtually any reason, and read and share with others the contents of…
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