The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to strike down aggregate limits on direct contributions from individuals to candidates, according to some news outlets that covered oral…
A federal judge in Arizona has overturned the state’s 25-year-old statute for bringing a charge of loitering if “in a public place to beg.” The ruling (PDF) concerned the…
A federal appeals court has vacated a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on its claim that Abercrombie & Fitch failed…
A North Carolina appeals court has upheld the removal of former Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline for bringing her office and the county justice system into “disrepute.”
Defiant at the news Wednesday that his law license had been suspended for five years, a longtime Pennsylvania attorney and former state auditor general and lawmaker vowed to appeal in…
The attorney general of Nebraska violated a Florida-based technology company’s legal rights by issuing a cease-and-desist order that precluded a Texas law firm accused of patent trolling from continuing to…
On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will return from its summer recess to begin October Term 2013. Before the Supreme Court adjourned at the end of June, it granted…
The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary is bringing race-based admissions back before the justices. Photo courtesy of By Any Means Necessary (BAMN).
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The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether for-profit companies can be required to provide contraceptive coverage over the religious objections of their owners.
A bill awaiting California Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature takes aim at “revenge porn”—in which scorned ex-lovers post nude online photos of the person who dumped them.
A law that pressures landlords to evict tenants for repeated 911 calls violates the First Amendment rights of renters, lawyers will argue in Philadelphia federal court on Thursday.
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