The Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a Wisconsin abortion law that required abortion doctors to have admission privileges at a hospital within 30 miles.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider a Virginia redistricting case challenging the state’s only congressional district with a majority-black population.
The Virginia case, Wittman v. Personhuballah, was…
An Alabama man says he was pressured into donating blood by a state-court judge during a Sept. 17 hearing. He has sued the blood donation center which was operating out…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the opt-out procedure for religious nonprofits that don’t want to provide contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
A California physician has been convicted of second-degree murder in the prescription drug overdose deaths of three patients, based on reckless conduct.
The majority of American pregnant women work, but some don't get requested accommodations, like extra bathroom breaks. And the reason may surprise you: Their medical teams don't know how to…
The rule of law requires public officials performing their legal duties to enforce the law or resign, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy told Harvard law students last Thursday.
An intersex U.S. Navy veteran who lives in Fort Collins has filed a federal lawsuit against Secretary of State John Kerry and a Colorado state official. It alleges that they…
Back when former Kansas attorney general Phill Kline was defending a legal ethics case over his handling of abortion-related matters, he sought and got the recusal of several justices on…
Saying condoms could be used as weapons or to transport drugs, the California prison guards’ union on Wednesday criticized the new practice of giving them out to inmates.
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