California Governor Edmund G. Brown signed Senate Bill 1408 into law on Friday, allowing HIV-positive individuals to become transplant donors to HIV-positive recipients. The California Legislature passed the bill earlier that day. Brown and the...
The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday vacated its prior ruling refusing to recognize same-sex adoption. In its short opinion , the court stated that "the Court of Civil appeals and the Jefferson Family Court erred in...
The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday ruled that juvenile convicted of first-degree murder may not be sentenced to life without parole. The court reasoned that sentencing a juvenile to life without parole was cruel and...
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Thursday that an employer may not coerce an employee to waive his or her right to bring a class action suit. In its decision, the...
A US jury concluded that Google was not in violation of copyright laws where it used Oracle's Java programming language to develop its operating system, Android. After the case was remanded in-part by an earlier circuit court decision [decision,...
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 5-2 to uphold the state's ban on capital punishment. The decision, which rested upon the court's previous decision against capital punishment, stated once again that allowing...
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed a bill on Wednesday banning abortions at the 20-week mark, making it the seventeenth state to pass such a ban. The bill, passed includes exceptions [Huffington Post...
Officials in 11 states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas challenging the Obama administration's recent guidance letter on transgender students. The states—Texas, Alabama, Wisconsin,...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Tuesday ruled that the 2014 elimination of the state's early in-person (EIP) voting was unconstitutional and in violation of Section 2 of...
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Tuesday stayed a lower court's decision striking down Wisconsin's "right to work" law . Judge William Foust of the Dane County Circuit Court in April struck down the law that...