US Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates on Monday voiced the Obama's administration's support for the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 . The bipartisan legislation would reduce the prison sentences of some nonviolent drug...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on Monday denied a request by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to expand the list of types of photo...

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana ruled Sunday that Louisiana must continue to provide Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood clinics for 14 days. Judge John deGravelles's...

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday upheld the main parts of Connecticut and New York gun control legislation that ban semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity magazines. The...

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) on Monday filed a criminal complaint against a high-ranking CIA official for mistreatment of Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen who was detained and allegedly tortured for...

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Friday issued a temporary order allowing Texas officials to continue denying birth certificates to children of immigrants. Earlier this year a group of undocumented...

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in two sets of cases, involving patent infringement damages and energy preemption, respectively. The first set, Stryker Corp. v. Zimmer and Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse...

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt agreed Friday to suspend all executions until his office has completed an investigation into the use of a wrong lethal injection drug during an execution last January. Pruitt...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Friday that Google's efforts to digitize millions of books for an online library is permissible fair use. Google has scanned more than 20...

Maine's revised concealed carry law went into effect Thursday and allows legal gun owners to carry concealed weapons without a permit. The law was passed by the Maine State Legislature and approved by Governor...