The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied review of a Board of Immigrant Appeals (BIA) case on Monday, reasoning that alien minors do not have a constitutional right to court-appointed counsel. The court ruled [opinion,...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Friday that it will maintain restrictions on the proposed Pebble Limited Partnership mining project in Alaska's Bristol Bay region, reversing its prior decision. In 2014, the EPA issued a Clean...

A federal judge ruled Friday that a class action lawsuit may proceed against Applebee's for its mandatory minimum tip policy. US District Judge Paul Oetken of US District Court for the Southern District of New York ...

New York and Minnesota filed a lawsuit on Friday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to block the Trump administration from cutting off federal funding to state programs that provide...

Michael Turzai, in his capacity as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and Joseph Scarnati III, in his capacity as Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore filed a motion with the US Supreme Court on Thursday asking the...

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest Thursday on behalf of two conservative student groups at the University of California, Berkeley who are suing...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest Thursday on behalf of two conservative student groups at the University of California, Berkeley who are suing the school for violation of their First Amendment rights...

The US Supreme Court on Thursday halted the planned execution of Alabama death row inmate Vernon Madison. Vernon Madison was convicted in Alabama of murdering a police officer in 1985. He was scheduled...

The NAACP filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), former acting secretary Elaine Costanzo Duke and current secretary Kirstjen Nielsen after the Trump administration revoked the Temporary Protected Status (TPS)...

A federal judge granted a request to acquit Senator Bob Menendez and his friend Salomon Melgen Wednesday on several charges in a bribery case that ended in a mistrial . The democratic senator from New Jersey was...