An animal rights organization filed a writ of habeas corpus Monday on behalf of three elephants owned by the Connecticut-based Commerford Zoo . The writ was brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) for the confinement...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday allowed President Donald Trump's latest travel ban to go partially into effect. The partial ban applies to people of Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Chad, who...

The FBI released the 2016 Hate Crime Statistics on Monday revealing 7,321 recorded criminal offenses motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender and gender identity in comparison to 6,885 [press...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases Monday, including two First Amendment cases and a question of whether probable cause defeats a retaliatory-arrest claim. National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra challenges...

Two women filed suit on Sunday against the US Department of Education and the Navient Corporation seeking immediate relief from their student loans due to harm caused by fraudulent claims from their for-profit college....

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it has begun distributing compensation to victims of Bernie L. The legal world is a busy place....

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it has begun distributing compensation to victims of Bernie L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC's (BLMIS) Ponzi scheme. The first set of distributions involve $722.5 million that will...

The legal world is a busy place. Here are a few stories we didn't get to this week that we thought you might be interested in. The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed Monday to...

A federal judge, on Thursday signed a settlement agreement ending a land dispute between private citizens and Texas officials against the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over territory on the Red River. The landowners and state...

The US State Department announced Wednesday that it will end the Central American Minors (CAM) refugee program, an Obama-era immigration initiative that sought to resettle "children and eligible family members who are nationals of El Salvador, Guatemala, and...