A Kentucky county clerk on Thursday again denied a same-sex couple's request for a marriage license, despite a federal appeals court order. Kim Davis, the clerk for Rowan county, has declined to extend marriage licenses to same-sex couples following...
The Alaska Superior Court struck down a state law Thursday, finding that it would have placed unconstitutional regulations on Medicaid coverage of abortions to the detriment of low-income women. The case was...
A Travis county judge on Friday denied a request for a temporary restraining order meant to halt the University of Texas at Austin's efforts to relocate a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The university's plan to...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana on Thursday filed a complaint challenging the constitutionality of a new Indiana statute that prohibits voters from sharing pictures of their ballots on social media. The ACLU...
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that requiring a person to show photographic identification before entering a courtroom does not constitute a "partial courtroom closure" and "was too trivial to constitute a true closure."...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday ordered Kimberly Davis, the Rowan County Clerk of Courts in Kentucky, to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Davis is currently appealing...
A Tennessee judge on Wednesday ruled that the state's use of lethal injections for the execution of death row inmates is constitutional. The decision by Davidson County Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman came in answer to a lawsuit brought...
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled against New Jersey Tuesday, deciding 2-1 to uphold the federal ban on sports betting in all but four states. New Jersey has been trying to...
A three-judge panel on the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit affirmed a lower court's decision and ruled in favor of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday, upholding a five-year...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday blocking the use of two drugs for lethal injections. The order was issued in a phone...