A UN human rights expert called for "calm and for all sides to exercise restraint" in the Central African Republic (CAR) Thursday, according to a UN statement . Marie-Thérèse Keita Bocoum, the Independent Expert on the situation of human...
A federal judge on Wednesday found Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in contempt of court for violating a preliminary injunction regarding registering voters in his state. Chief Judge Julie A. Robinson of the US District...
Another federal lawsuit has been filed against the US Census Bureau regarding a controversial citizenship question added to the 2020 Census. The City of San Jose and Black Alliance for Just Immigration, a California non-profit corporation,...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided Tuesday that because the Justice Department will not defend former Maricopa County Sheriff's criminal contempt conviction, it would appoint a special prosecutor to defend the question....
The ACLU of Massachusetts filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday against President Trump and other administration officials on behalf of a Rhode Island resident and Guatemalan native, along with six similarly-situated plaintiffs, in the United States...
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in state court seeking a declaration that residency is a requirement for gubernatorial candidacy in the state. The suit comes as 10 non-residents ...
The National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) , on behalf of seven residents of Maryland and Arizona, filed suit on Wednesday against the US Census Bureau , arguing that its last-minute decision to add a citizenship status...
A Pennsylvania appellate judge on Monday distinguished the natural gas extraction practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," from conventional drilling property rights and held that fracking is not subject to the same "rules of capture." In a...
Federal judge Orlando Garcia in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio has granted summary judgment to a group of voters who argued that the voter registration measures of Texas'...
The NAACP filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland against the US Census Bureau and President Donald Trump, arguing that the federal government's unpreparedness for the 2020 Census is...
