A homeless man represented by the American Civil Liberties Union sued Indianapolis on Thursday over the city’s recent declaration of an emergency and prohibition on lying on the public sidewalk or congregating under certain underpasses.
Read moreThough it acquitted a Rikers corrections officer of civil rights abuses for his videotaped beating of an inmate, a federal jury found the guard guilty Thursday of a cover-up.
Read moreScores of college students and activists gathered outside the Durham County courthouse on Thursday morning to “symbolically” turn themselves in for toppling a confederate monument on Monday.
Read moreAn independent candidate for city council in Perrysburg, Ohio claims in court that a municipal ordinance limiting the amount of time political signs can be displayed on private property violates his rights under the First Amendment.
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Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by a Taliban gunman at age 15 for speaking out for the right to an education, has been accepted to the University of Oxford.
Read moreAn anti-transgender “bathroom bill” that would have required people to use public facilities that match their biological sex is dead in Texas, after the Legislature adjourned its special session a day early.
Read moreA Muslim-American radio host is accusing the publisher of a notorious neo-Nazi website of defaming him by falsely labeling him the “mastermind” of a deadly concert bombing in England, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
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A class action filed in Nebraska federal court early Wednesday wants the Nebraska Department of Corrections and state parole board to address several prison issues including overcrowding, inadequate health care and a lack of accommodation for disabled prisoners.
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A Texas A&M University student claims the school suspended him over a female student’s bogus sexual-assault claims and finished its investigation without letting him defend himself, as he was hospitalized with depression from the ordeal.
Read moreA Florida Uber driver claims in a class action that the ride-sharing giant’s policy prohibiting drivers from carrying firearms in their vehicles violates a state law passed nearly a decade ago.
Read moreOregon Governor Kate Brown on Tuesday signed a law protecting the right to legal abortion in Oregon, even if Roe v. Wade or the Affordable Care Act were to be overturned.
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Supporters of a policy that has shielded 800,000 immigrants from deportation rallied at the White House and in Austin on Tuesday, as pressure mounts on the Trump administration to rescind the policy or face a lawsuit from Texas.
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A panel of federal judges has refused the Homeland Security Department’s request to consolidate 13 Freedom of Information Act lawsuits from the ACLU, seeking information on how President Trump’s travel ban is being enforced across the country.
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The deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is accelerating the removal of Confederate monuments in cities across the nation in much the same way that a 2015 mass shooting by a white supremacist led to the end of the Confederate flag being flown on public property.
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The French president’s press office says Emmanuel Macron has filed a legal complaint against a photographer who allegedly was spotted on the property where he is vacationing and also followed his motorcade.
Read moreFacing a demand for web-traffic records concerning an anti-Trump page, a website-hosting company told a judge that the government is trampling the First Amendment.
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A federal judge dealt another setback Monday to animal-rights groups fighting to make the U.S. Department of Agriculture restore online public access to animal-welfare-compliance data.
Read moreTwo Sikh cadets at the U.S. Military Academy claim that forcing them to wear the famous West Point plumed shako or “tar bucket” hat over or in place of their turbans will violate their religious rights.
Read moreA black woman can proceed with claims the U.S. Office of Personnel Management deliberately bypassed her for employment as an administrative law judge because of her race, a federal judge ruled.
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