A coalition of media groups is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow live audio and video coverage when it announces its ruling on the constitutionality of the health care…
Hotels, water parks, and other facilities with pools recently got another extension to comply with American Disability Act standards, the Associated Press reports.
Five of Kansas’ seven supreme court justices have recused themselves from a pending disciplinary case against former state Attorney General Phill Kline.
The five justices voluntarily stepped aside, citing a…
A California man has been criminally charged after allegedly failing to comply with a San Joaquin County health department-mandated treatment plan for his highly contagious tuberculosis.
A public taxing district board for a New Smyrna Beach, Fla., says the advice it got from an Orlando lawyer concerning compliance with the state’s Sunshine Law has proven expensive.
A Kentucky woman sued a Lexington dentist on Thursday, contending that she reflexively swallowed a small implant screwdriver he dropped in her mouth during a routine treatment and it had…
A Chinese dissident lawyer who escaped from house arrest is reportedly in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing where he may be protected by United States diplomats.
Aggressive efforts by admission personnel at a chain of Minnesota medical centers to collect money from patients before they are treated could violate federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency…
A generic drug company that claims a brand-name competitor submitted an overbroad description of its patent to the Food and Drug Administration will get a chance to challenge the description…
A Florida hospital has been fined $5,000 for hiring a teenager who worked for more than a week as a physician’s assistant, treating patients and even performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on…
The Lochner decision has become an epithet used by both liberals and conservatives, according to George Mason University law professor David Bernstein.
For five years, a federal appeals court has been trying to free Shirley Ree Smith. It held in 2006 that the evidence on which her second-degree murder conviction was based…
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