The promise of reparations to atone for historical ties to slavery has opened new territory in a reckoning at U.S. colleges, which until now have responded with monuments, building name changes and public apologies.
Read moreSix years after throwing out the “anti-prostitution pledge” AIDS charities had to make to get federal funding, the justices agreed Friday to decide what requirements can be made of the charities’ foreign affiliates.
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New York City will pay $625,000 to the mother whose treatment at a Brooklyn benefits office went viral after uniformed officers were filmed last year ripping her baby from her arms.
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A conservative free speech group appeared successful Friday at persuading a Sixth Circuit panel that a Detroit-area public transit authority cannot ban its anti-Muslim ads for being overtly political.
Read moreSave Our Recreation and three dog owners groups sued the Department of the Interior, National Park Service and Golden Gate National Recreation Area in federal court, for restricting access to dog walkers and their dogs.
Read morePlanned Parenthood claims Alaska and its Board of Nursing unconstitutionally prohibit advanced practice clinicians from providing gynecological care, including “safe, early abortion and miscarriage care, which they are highly qualified to provide.”
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Hong Kong’s much-maligned police force has slipped on a banana peel by making light of its liberal use of tear gas during the territory’s protest movement.
Read moreA federal court in Texas sanctioned the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and its executive director for violating a $4.5 million settlement agreement in which they agreed to fix faulty air conditioning in housing that exceeded 88 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer.
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Capping off a busy first week as Kentucky’s 63rd governor, Democrat Andy Beshear signed an executive order Thursday to reinstate voting rights for over 140,000 people convicted of nonviolent felonies.
Read moreThe National Rifle Association’s legal challenge to a Los Angeles ordinance requiring businesses to disclose any links with the advocacy group received a boost Wednesday when a federal judge temporarily blocked the law.
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A lawyer for four people who claim they were held in a debtors’ jail in St. Louis argued before an Eighth Circuit panel Thursday that a recent change in bail procedures does not make their case moot.
Read moreSpanish men with two or more children are just as entitled as are mothers to a supplement that the country applies to pension awards, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday.
Read moreAn Uber driver who says he made more than 8,000 drives claims in federal court that the company fired him on bogus pretexts after the Chicago Tribune published a photo of him in a peaceful protest with other drivers against Uber’s pay policies.
Read moreA longtime certified professional midwife claims the Georgia Board of Nursing unconstitutionally threatens to fine her $500 every time she uses that title, “or even utters the verboten word ‘midwife’ to describe herself.”
Read moreIn a habeas complaint against the sheriff of Palm Beach County, a man claims the first-degree murder charge against him is “excessive and unwarranted” because when he shot his wife and killed a man in his car, which he had reported missing, he was merely defending his property.
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A year ago, Shoshana Zuboff dropped an intellectual bomb on the technology industry. She hasn’t stood still since.
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Remarkably high rates of sexual abuse persist in 12 juvenile immigration detention centers stretching from Oregon to Florida, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics report released Wednesday.
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