A security guard killed by Los Angeles County officers last month was shot five times in the back according to the LA County Coroner’s autopsy report released Friday.
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The Trump administration violated federal law by shipping off teenage immigrants to ICE prisons on their 18th birthday without going through the mandatory channels to find safer alternatives, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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The Third Circuit ruled Tuesday that a school violated a cheerleader’s First Amendment rights when it kicked her off the squad over a profane Snapchat post done off-campus.
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San Francisco could become the first major city in the United States to let 16- and 17-year-old residents vote in municipal elections if approved by the city’s adult voters in a November 2020 ballot initiative.
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A 16-year-old boy was killed and a 14-year-old is in critical condition after a shooting overnight Monday in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest Zone.
Read moreParents may pursue their disability discrimination claims in a class action relating to the way the Texas Education Agency handles hearings about students’ special education needs when the student is over the age of 18 but lacks the mental capacity to make their own decisions or provide informed consent, a federal court in Texas ruled.
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Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg can add to her list of personal accolades, including TIME magazine’s Person of the Year, a group of spiders named after her.
Read moreA Mexican police officer in Oaxaca was presented in court on murder charges Friday after shooting a 16-year-old U.S. citizen in the head, killing him.
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Aboriginal teenagers were illegally tear gassed in an Australian juvenile jail, a court ruled Wednesday amid renewed public condemnation over police abuse of indigenous citizens in custody.
Read moreA 16-year-old girl sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the agents she says strip searched her without cause on her way home from Mexico with her adult sisters, in federal court.
Read moreAn appeals court in Florida upheld the dismissal of a civil suit against a mental health facility that provided mental health services to Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz between 2009 and 2016. The facility did not owe a legal duty to protect or warn students that attended the same school as one of its patients.
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U.S. births continued to fall last year, leading to the fewest number of newborns in 35 years.
Read moreA federal court in Alabama ruled in favor of a woman who brought assault and false arrest claims against a former police officer who had sex with her at least 15 times when she was between 14 and 17 years old, while he was on duty. After their “relationships” ended the officer allegedly sprayed her in the face with pepper spray and arrested her for minor-in-possession after pouring beer in her car. The officer has made no attempt to defend himself against the claims.
Read moreA former student who was shot six times at Santa Fe High School in Texas by a classmate who killed 10 and wounded 13 sued Luckygunner.com, of Tennessee, et al., claiming it sold the shooter guns and ammo online though he was not old enough to buy them legally, in federal court.
Read moreA federal court in Pennsylvania ruled in favor of the Milton Hershey School in a suit brought by a former student who claims his house parents subjected him to “gay conversion therapy,” finding he failed to prove the school was negligent or that the asserted “therapy” he experienced caused him emotional harm.
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Amazon argued before the Ohio Supreme Court that it is not at fault for a high school student’s death caused by a third-party product.
Read moreThe Supreme Court of Colorado ruled that a warrant permitting the search of a woman’s cell phone was constitutionally overbroad, given modern phones’ storage capacities and ability and hold the “privacies of life.” The woman, a university professor, was charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
Read moreSomaya Farooqi and four other teenage girls pile into her dad’s car and head to a mechanic’s workshop. They use back roads to skirt police checkpoints set up to enforce a lockdown in the city of Herat, one of Afghanistan’s hot spots of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreParents of a Wisconsin teenager claim the Marquette County sheriff threatened her with arrest if she didn’t delete an Instagram post about recovering from the coronavirus.
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