California Governor Edmund Brown signed a bill into law on Friday that attempts to allow undocumented immigrants to purchase healthcare plans. The bill, SB 10 , allows the healthcare exchanges set up in the state...

A US magistrate judge issued an order on Thursday requiring California prisons to provide transgender inmates who identify as female access to female-oriented items to which inmates have access in women's correctional facilities. The order lists pajamas,...

A group of five doctors and the American Academy of Medical Ethics (AAME) filed suit Wednesday challenging a physician-assisted suicide law. The End of Life Option Act would allow "terminally-ill" patients, an individual who, determined...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held Thursday that the right to carry a concealed gun is not within Second Amendment right to bear arms. The court, reversing a prior 2014 decision...

Bleu Copas and Caleb Laieski filed a lawsuit in the Chancery Court for Anderson County on Tuesday, challenging a Tennessee law that protects counselors who refuse to provide services to individuals based on their religious...

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-2 Thursday in Dietz v. Bouldin that federal district courts have "the inherent power to rescind a jury discharge order and recall a jury for further deliberations" in a...

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Thursday in Williams v. Pennsylvania that Pennsylvania's Chief Justice should have recused himself from a death penalty case in which he formerly served as prosecutor. Terrance Williams was...

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-2 Thursday in Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle that the double jeopardy clause bars Puerto Rico and the US from successively prosecuting a single person for...

Google, Facebook, Yahoo and various rights groups expressed opposition Monday to legislation that extends categories of Internet records that the government can collect without court approval through the National Security Letters . These expanded powers...

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by Ecuador over an arbitration award to Chevron Corp . In 2011 Chevron was issued...