A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Thursday in favor of House Republicans in a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) . Judge Rosemary...

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against Ohio's health department on Wednesday over a law designed to reduce funding to the organization. Planned Parenthood claims that thousands of patients will be denied access to HIV tests, cancer...

US Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland on Tuesday provided Congress with a questionnaire detailing his judicial qualifications. This was the most thorough record of judicial qualifications submitted for a Supreme Court nominee, with the questionnaire...

A judge in Mexico's Third District for Penal Processes ruled in favor of extraditing Joaquín "el Chapo" Guzmán to the US, a federal court authority said on Monday. Guzmán faces charges of drug trafficking, kidnapping, money laundering and murder in...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit Monday challenging North Carolina's controversial House Bill 2 . The DOJ alleges that North Carolina is discriminating against transgender individuals in violation of federal law. The...

A Miami judge ruled Monday that Florida's revamped death penalty law is unconstitutional because it does not require a unanimous agreement among jurors to approve executions. The law , enacted in March, only requires...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Mississippi filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging Mississippi's controversial House Bill 1523 . The law, set to take effect July 1, allows state employees to refuse...

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory filed a complaint for declaratory judgment Monday asking the federal court to weigh in on the legality of North Carolina's controversial House Bill 2 . The move comes after the US...

An eight-member jury in Wichita, Kansas, found Friday that an anti-abortion activist did not intend to threaten a doctor in 2011 with a letter mentioning the possibility of someone placing a bomb under the doctor's car. The US Department of...

The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) filed a lawsuit against US House of Representatives Chaplain Patrick Conroy on Thursday after being barred from delivering an invocation. Dan Barker , Co-President of the FFRF, was...