It’s not an actual war zone. But police plan to treat a violence-plagued neighborhood in northeast Washington, D.C., as though it were, establishing a temporary military-style checkpoint beyond which those…
An inmate who claimed his lawyer said he deserved to die waited for 35 minutes yesterday while his executioners struggled to find a vein for his lethal injection.
A reporter for a Chicago newspaper isn’t headed to jail, because he had a right to take the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying in the child pornography trial of R&B…
Updated: Setting the stage for a potential confrontation among states about the marital rights of same-sex couples to start sooner rather than later, the California Supreme Court today refused to…
Updated: A federal appeals court has tossed a civil rights and First Amendment claim filed by a law graduate who claims he was denied a law license because of his…
A student at Vermont Law School and his Cuban wife have sued the U.S. government over restrictions that bar Cuban Americans from traveling home more than once every three years.
After a Texas Supreme Court ruling Thursday that officials overstepped its authority by removing some 468 children from their homes at a ranch run by a religious sect that advocates…
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case that asks whether fantasy baseball leagues have a First Amendment right to use the names and statistics of famous athletes.
DNA samples reportedly have been taken from Warren Jeffs, the jailed leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in a separate Texas criminal investigation related…
Updated: After a Texas Supreme Court ruling yesterday that more than 460 children were illegally removed from their parents’ custody at a ranch run by a religious sect that advocates…
Updated: Opposing forces are gearing up to fight a major battle over the right of same-sex couples to marry, centered on the recent decision by the California Supreme Court that…
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