A Florida man filed a civil lawsuit against Florida Power & Light Company on Monday, claiming the utility company failed to make preparations that could have prevented some of the mass power outages resulting from Hurricane...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Colombia dismissed two lawsuits against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Tuesday for their alleged negligence in their conduct surrounding the 2015...

The US Senate on Monday voted 89-8 to approve HR 2810 , a $700 billion defense bill, authorizing support for defense programs and combat operations at home and overseas. Among other things, the bill authorizes...

Recent Ohio arrestee Timothy Davis filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court on Sunday alleging Columbus, Ohio, police used excessive force to detain him in a convenience store. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for...

Jared Genser, lawyer for detained Baquer and Siamak Namazi, on Monday released the opinion from the UN Working Group on arbitrary detention , which concluded that Iran was illegally detaining the father and son without legitimate reason....

Six immigrants filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration's decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) , arguing that the Trump administration did not follow proper administrative procedure....

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled Friday that the Trump administration cannot withhold grants to so-called "sanctuary cities," issuing a nationwide...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled Friday that the Trump administration cannot withhold grants to so-called "sanctuary cities," issuing a nationwide injunction. US Attorney General had said in March that...

US Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday introduced a bill and announced an investigation into the recent Equifax breach. The proposed legislation is said to give consumers the ability to freeze their credit [The Street...

A St. Louis, Missouri, circuit judge on Friday acquitted a former police officer accused of first degree murder for the shooting of a black man. Jason Stockley was pursuing Anthony Lamar during a high-speed chase when evidence...