The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a stay to Russell Bucklew who was scheduled to be executed that evening. The brief order stayed the execution pending a writ of certiorari to the court because of...

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an Arizona challenge to a US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision barring the state from refusing to issue drivers licenses to recipients...

The US Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday concerning the constitutional validity of California's Reproductive Fact Act , which has been challenged on First and Fourteenth Amendment grounds. The Act requires...

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee on Monday dismissed an action by the state of Tennessee against the federal refugee resettlement program. The plaintiffs on behalf of the state of Tennessee asserted...

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (SLUSA) did not strip state courts of jurisdiction over class action lawsuits under the 1933 Securities Act . The...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a case concerning the Minnesota revocation-upon-divorce statute, which revokes an ex-spouse's beneficiary designation once the couple divorces. The relevant part of the statute states: "the...

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Monday signed into law the country's strictest abortion law, prompting Mississippi's only abortion clinic to file a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi challenging the...

The US District Court for the Middle of Pennsylvania on Monday dismissed the lawsuit brought by Pennsylvania Republican legislators seeking to throw out the new electoral map designed by the state Supreme Court. Also...

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty in Arizona under the Eighth Amendment. Abel Hidalgo was sentenced to death for two counts of first...

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in Nielsen v. Preap to rule on the mandatory detention of noncitizens who are released from criminal custody. The question before the court...