Federal and state legislatures should ban racial and ethnic profiling, according to a resolution passed by the ABA’s 555-member policy-making House of Delegates this afternoon.
Congress should abolish the U.S. Supreme Court-created exception to the Federal Torts Claims Act that prohibits members of the military from suing the federal government for tortious government conduct, according…
Traditionally, a human embryo has been defined as a fertilized egg that has latched onto the uterine wall. But a draft regulation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
The Center for Reproductive Rights and the state of Kansas have agreed to a $475,000 settlement of a lawsuit prompted by a sweeping 2003 attorney general opinion that required health…
Unauthorized peeping into celebrity medical files at UCLA Medical Center was more widespread than previously believed, involving at least 127 employees.
Regulators who reported this tally fault the hospital for…
Congress passed legislation last week that forgives up to $10,000 a year in student loans for state and local prosecutors and public defenders who pledge to stay on the job…
A new bill signed into law today by the governor of Illinois sets the stage for the state’s judges to use GPS satellite tracking to enforce protective orders.
Confirming what some had previously feared, federal agencies say they can confiscate travelers’ laptops at U.S. borders for virtually any reason, and read and share with others the contents of…
Complaining that they are being besieged by the tabloid photographers, celebrities met with Los Angeles officials yesterday to seek protection from further harassment.
A 1928 aerial photo taken of Mission Canyon, Calif., 10 minutes from downtown Santa Barbara, shows four houses and two roads leading in and out of the scenic spot. Decades…
Setting the stage for Massachusetts to become the second state in the country to allow out-of-state couples of the same gender to marry, the state’s house of representatives voted today…
It wasn’t just political affiliation that some top officials at the Department of Justice may have considered when making decisions about hiring and firing.
Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska has been indicted on seven counts of lying on Senate financial disclosure forms, the U.S. Justice Department announced in a press conference this afternoon.
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