A Manhattan federal judge refused to dismiss a crisis-communications firm from Blake Lively's lawsuit alleging a coordinated campaign to damage her reputation after she complained of sexual harassment on set, holding that California's Fair Employment and...
The ruling updates the legal framework that has governed minority voting rights claims for four decades, holding that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act imposes liability only when circumstances give rise to a strong inference of intentional racial...
Three judges say the panel made six separate errors — on Westfall Act substitution, presidential immunity, and Trump's right to a jury trial — that warrant full-court review.
A woman held for days at a private behavioral health facility after her daughter filed a commitment application is pressing constitutional claims against the county that allegedly paid the facility $1.3 million a year to run the program.
A Chesterfield County officer deployed his police dog on a one-legged man who was in a fetal-like position on a storage room floor, then took a considerable amount of time to separate the animal as it attacked the man's buttocks, scrotum, and amputated...
A Polk County driver who paid $336 after contesting an automated school-bus camera ticket could not show the system's notice procedures were constitutionally deficient — but a federal judge left the money claims alive.
A magistrate judge found that a defendant forged his wife's and son's signatures on discovery verifications and fed his own lawyers false information for two years — but declined to end the case on the first swing.
A federal magistrate judge found that more than 90% of transgender women in Oregon state prisons are housed in men's facilities by default — and that the state knew it was putting them at serious risk.
Families of two men killed on September 11, 2001 secured final compensatory judgments against Iran after waiving punitive damages to unlock the court's certification order.
Families of Andrew Jordan, Vincent Morello, and Terence McShane waived punitive damages against the Islamic Republic of Iran to secure certified final judgments carrying prejudgment interest back to September 11, 2001.
A man doing laundry at 11:30 p.m. lost his gun to Pittsburgh police who had no legal basis to take it, a federal judge ruled.
A district court had struck the word "operation" from Arizona's birth-certificate amendment statute and its implementing regulation, a ruling set to take effect in two days.
A man who alleges a county lieutenant orchestrated a sham investigation and filed charges against him days after he escalated a civil rights complaint gets another shot in court.
A utility worker fired in 2018 may have been misled by the state civil rights agency into believing she had already done everything the law required.
A Pennsylvania man acquitted of killing his attacker sued the state trooper who charged him without telling the magistrate that witnesses said he was outnumbered and not the initial aggressor.
A California federal judge expanded an existing injunction to block three major federal departments from imposing grant conditions on municipal plaintiffs who sued the Trump administration.
A Waukegan man charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm kept gun evidence suppressed after police continued searching a basement long after their protective sweep was complete.
A Connecticut federal judge let stand the core discrimination claim of a former business-development manager who says Avelo axed him days after he was hospitalized for stroke-like symptoms.
A man who said he had 22 years of law enforcement experience sued after a takedown maneuver left him injured in his own front yard.
A federal judge refused to let Farmington escape an ADA lawsuit brought by a maintenance foreman whose position was eliminated after he was diagnosed with a hernia and supervisors learned he was the sole caregiver for a special-needs child.