A Pennsylvania appellate judge on Monday distinguished the natural gas extraction practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," from conventional drilling property rights and held that fracking is not subject to the same "rules of capture." In a...
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Federal judge Orlando Garcia in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio has granted summary judgment to a group of voters who argued that the voter registration measures of Texas'...
The NAACP filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland against the US Census Bureau and President Donald Trump, arguing that the federal government's unpreparedness for the 2020 Census is...
A federal judge in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland on Wednesday partially granted President Donald Trump's motions to dismiss an emoluments challenge , allowing the remainder of the claims to proceed....
Attorneys from the Southern Poverty Law Center and New York City-based firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday arguing that Mississippi's disenfranchisement laws for people convicted of particular felonies, and...
After nearly 10 hours of extensive debate, the Vermont House of Representatives voted 89-54 on Tuesday to approveS.55 , a piece of major gun legislation. The bill mandates universal background checks, raises the purchasing age...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether a court may exercise jurisdiction over property owned by a tribal government despite a generally applicable sovereign immunity to suit....
The US Supreme Court held Wednesday in Marinello v. United States that the federal government must prove a defendant was aware of pending tax-related proceeding in order to convict them under federal law, which makes it...
The US Treasury Department imposed new economic sanctions Thursday on 19 Russian individuals and five entities for their interference in the 2016 US election, and a number of other destructive cyber-attacks. The Treasury Department highlighted continuing Russian destabilizing...
Eleven countries including Japan, Australia, and Canada signed a trade agreement Thursday known as The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) . The deal will span a market of nearly 500 million people, making it one of...
