A California utility is facing criminal charges over a massive methane gas leak outside Los Angeles that has forced thousands from their homes since October.
The Supreme Court’s docket for October Term 2015 is now set. Absent extraordinary circumstances, all cases taken between now and the end of June will not be heard until next…
A crowd of several hundred people gathered in the auditorium of the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., last fall to hear a conversation with a member of the U.S.…
Starting this year, physicians and other health professionals are being reimbursed by Medicare for providing advance care-planning services, a step the ABA believes will help patients make informed decisions about…
Updated: Lawyers for anti-abortion activists behind controversial videos attacking Planned Parenthood say the case is legally flawed, the New York Times reports.
David Daleiden, director of the anti-abortion Center…
A grand jury in Houston investigating Planned Parenthood has instead indicted two anti-abortion activists who created undercover videos in an attempt to show the group sells fetal body parts.
A lawyer in Toledo, Ohio, claims in a lawsuit that doctors wrongly diagnosed her daughter with shaken baby syndrome, and the state removed both daughters from her care without justification.
A lawsuit filed by the widow of a Reed Smith partner against the makers of Paxil is headed to trial after a federal judge indicated he won’t rule on summary…
2015 was an amazing year in the United States Supreme Court. As the year comes to a close, I cannot resist the temptation to look back and present my “awards”…
A Virginia state senator has sued the state and a local mental health agency for the wrongful death by suicide of his son, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Anthony Kennedy can expect a full-court press from both pro-abortion rights and anti-abortion advocates as the Supreme Court prepares to hear its first abortion case in almost a decade.
Rising obesity rates in the United States are creating new dilemmas for nursing homes confronted with the increasing costs of caring for overweight patients.
Carving an exception into a general rule that hospitals and doctors owe a duty of care only to their patients, the top appeals court in New York has OK’d a…
Apparently hoping for state and federal aid, the mayor of Flint, Michigan, has declared a state of emergency over the amount of lead in the city’s water supply.
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