US President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the...

A second Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice resigned Tuesday over of a growing scandal that involves hundreds of offensive e-mails. Justice Michael Eakin is the second justice to retire after Justice Seamus McCaffery retired immediately after being suspended...

A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Monday accusing the city of Los Angeles of endangering homeless people. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles , alleges that the city has...

A federal judge filed an order on Monday for attorneys to submit arguments as to whether the court system has standing to decide if Mississippi should remove the Confederate battle emblem that as been on the state flag...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas issued a preliminary injunction on Monday blocking Arkansas from enforcing its abortion pill restrictions. Arkansas passed Act 577 in March...

The US House of Representatives on Monday unanimously passed a resolution denouncing the actions of the Islamic State (IS) as "genocide" and calling for the establishment of international and domestic tribunals by UN...

Indiana activists on Monday delivered a petition to the Indiana statehouse urging Governor Mike Pence to not sign HB 1337 , which they claim places overly burdensome restrictions on abortions. The bill requires practitioners to get...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday urged state court systems to stop using procedural routines and hefty fines to profit off poor defendants . DOJ officials Vanita Gupta and Lisa Foster informed ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday announced the filing of an amicus brief in a US federal court arguing that the failure of US government officials to appoint lawyers to represent migrant children facing deportation violates their...

The Virginia General Assembly on Friday approved a bill that will allow for the implementation of the electric chair if lethal injection drugs are not readily available. Virginia has faced issues with obtaining lethal...