US President Barack Obama on Friday commuted the sentences of 42 inmates convicted of drug offenses as part of his ongoing efforts toward criminal justice reform . The 42 inmates received the commutation and...

A three-judge panel upheld North Carolina's newly drawn congressional districts on Thursday. The challenge was brought after the state's General Assembly was ordered to redraw [JURIST report its congressional lines by the US Supreme Court, and the...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) advocacy on Thursday filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama challenging three recent abortion restrictions in the state. The first restriction prevents the issuance...

BP stated Thursday that it has agreed to pay $175 million to shareholders in a securities class action suit against the company relating back to the 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Shareholders claimed...

Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi appeared before a secret government tribunal on Thursday, seeking to be released from his detention. Slahi, who was one of only two Guantanamo prisoners to endure a Rumsfeld approved "special interrogation...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a rule on Thursday seeking to address predatory loaning practices by "payday" and other high-interest lenders. The 1,000-plus-page regulation suggests two policies of note. First, the agency proposed...

The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that provides protection to transgender persons in public places. House Bill 4253 , "An Act relative to gender identity and nondiscrimination," provides that those who identify as transgender shall...

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday reinstated a challenge to a Pittsburgh ordinance establishing a 15-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) challenged...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday denied a motion to reconsider a three-judge panel's ruling in favor of a transgender Virginia student. The case, G.G. v. Gloucester County School...

Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo military commissions, settled a freedom of speech lawsuit on Tuesday against the Library of Congress after Davis was terminated from his position as assistant director of the Congressional Research...