Attorneys for Ohio facing a Sixth Circuit panel on Thursday defended the constitutionality of a law that revokes health care funding from abortion providers and asked the appeals court to throw out an injunction against it.
Read moreA group of voters challenged the constitutionality of Tennessee’s voting procedures before the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday, specifically the passage of a 2014 constitutional amendment that eliminated protections and funding for abortions.
Read moreAs repeal and withdraw have become increasingly familiar approaches touted in Washington lately, lobbyists for big agriculture are already anxious about President Donald Trump’s renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement next year, hoping the trade pact will be kept in place.
Read moreCook County defended its new sweetened-beverage tax in court Friday after it was put on hold three weeks ago, arguing against claims that it is unclear and does not apply uniformly to different types of drinks.
Read moreExperts told lawmakers Wednesday that low-level Chinese businessmen dabbling in money laundering and the trafficking of materials for nuclear power reactors in North Korea are making effective sanctions on Pyongyang close to impossible.
Read moreStudent-loan giant Navient and Sallie Mae Bank argued in court Tuesday against a lawsuit accusing them of taking advantage of student borrowers struggling to repay their debts.
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Fighting to revive a copyright suit over monkey selfies, a lawyer told a Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday that non-human corporations shouldn’t have more rights than animals to protect artistic works.
Read moreAn activist who was arrested for trying to record a Texas House committee hearing in March claims in court that state law allows her to film such meetings without media credentials.
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A Minnesota judge heard debate Monday over whether Gov. Mark Dayton’s line-item veto of operating budgets for the Legislature violates a separation of powers clause in the state constitution.
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The quality and accuracy of video footage depicting the 2012 shooting death of a teenage boy in Mexico by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was repeatedly questioned in Tucson federal court Thursday.
Read moreA federal judge indicated Thursday he will likely nix an anti-abortion activist’s push to disqualify a judge who was weighing contempt charges against him for violating a court order.
Read moreOhio death-row inmate Tyrone Noling believes DNA testing of evidence found at the scene of a 1990 double homicide could be his chance to clear his name and avoid execution, and his fate now rests with the state’s highest court.
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A lawyer representing Chicago argued in court Tuesday on behalf of the city’s new ordinance regulating online home-sharing services like Airbnb, saying the city has every right to regulate business activity.
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At a hearing in Tucson federal court over the shooting of a teenage boy by a Border Patrol agent, attorneys debated whether to admit video evidence from surveillance cameras and a reconstruction of the event.
Read moreFighting off claims that it used false metrics to coax customers into buying video ads, a Facebook attorney said Monday that the social media giant never promised to give accurate data.
Read moreTwo civil lawsuits over the Flint water crisis were consolidated for a single oral argument before a Sixth Circuit panel on Thursday, with the majority of the debate focused on whether citizens’ constitutional claims were preempted by the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Read moreThe entire Sixth Circuit heard debate Wednesday over the constitutionality of a Michigan county’s practice of opening board meetings with a commissioner-led prayer, after the court vacated a three-judge panel’s ruling against the prayer and agreed to decide the case en banc.
Read moreA federal judge grilled challengers Wednesday about their demand for emails written under a pseudonym by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who they believe has guided government energy policy toward fossil fuels and away from renewable resources.
Read moreThe en banc Sixth Circuit heard arguments Wednesday over Ohio’s three-drug lethal injection procedure, as over two dozen death-row inmates await word on the status of their executions.
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The man accused of stabbing three people who confronted him for a racist tirade on a commuter train cried, “not guilty” in court Wednesday, claiming self-defense against the surviving victim.
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