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Abortion policy is now in the hands of the states following the US Supreme Court’s Friday decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. President Joe Biden has directed the Department of Health and Human Services to take steps to make sure abortion and contraception [...]

Most people in our societies identify as male or female, a man or a woman; but there have been people around the globe in different eras that have claimed other identities regarding their gender identity and have put this binary under challenge. Alternative genders across the globe demonstrate examples of cross-cultural gender diversity. In a [...]

The US Supreme Court issued orders Monday denying a number of cases and sending three cases back to lower courts for reconsideration: US v. Herrold, Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor, and Richardson v. US. United States v. Herrold is another case considering the elements of burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act. Under existing [...]

Melissa and Aaron Klein, the former owners of an Oregon bakery asked the US Supreme Court Tuesday whether the state of Oregon violated the couple’s First Amendment rights by compelling them to make a custom wedding cake to for a same-sex wedding, which they claim is against “their sincerely held religious beliefs.” The petition for writ [...]

The attorneys general from 15 states and Washington, DC, filed an amicus brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in support of a challenge to four abortion laws enacted by Arkansas in...

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: San Francisco filed a nuisance lawsuit against five fossil fuel companies due to expected expenses the city will incur from global warming. The Oregon Supreme Court ...

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: A married same-sex couple filed a lawsuit against a former employer on Thursday in the US District Court for the Central District of California that alleges the...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law on Friday directing New Jersey school boards to "addres common issues concerning the needs of transgender and LGBTQ students, and to assist schools in establishing policies...

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that a Mississippi law allowing for religious objections to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community is unconstitutional . HB 1523 , set to go into effect Friday, sought to...

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric A. Johnson of University of Illinois School of Law discusses the recent Criminal Code Improvement Act ... In November 2015, the House Judiciary Committee voted to send "The Criminal Code Improvement Act of 2015" to...