A federal judge ruled that Oregon counties face takings claims for keeping surplus proceeds from tax-foreclosure sales without compensating former property owners, rejecting the counties' argument that state law left them no choice.
Days after the justices vacated Louisiana's congressional map, Alabama is pressing the court to let it sidestep a two-majority-Black-district order before its primary.
The federal government contends the state's "Immigrant Safety Act" and a city ordinance requiring businesses to notify immigrants of nearby enforcement activity violate the Supremacy Clause and obstruct federal immigration law.
A federal judge ruled that eight commercial property owners may pursue Fifth Amendment takings and First Amendment retaliation claims against the City of Kingston, New York, over the demolition of a historic 1,700-foot colonial-revival canopy attached to...
A federal judge permanently enjoined the National Endowment for the Humanities from enforcing mass grant terminations, ruling the action violated the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee, and exceeded statutory authority.
Four Supreme Court justices have raised serious constitutional questions about nitrogen hypoxia executions, with a scheduled June 11 Alabama execution set to give the court its next opportunity to intervene.
Plaintiffs in Tennessee argue that the state’s mid-decade congressional redistricting and election calendar changes violate voters’ fundamental right to vote and burden First Amendment associational rights, seeking an emergency injunction to halt the new...
The General Assembly cast its first vote on a proposed constitutional amendment after more than 1.3 million Virginians had already voted — a sequence the court held Article XII, Section 1 flatly forbids.
A new Kansas statute imposes disclosure burdens on proxy advisors only when they recommend votes against corporate management — a distinction ISS says is unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a statewide investigation into 30 school districts to enforce new laws requiring Ten Commandments displays and board votes on prayer.
A First Circuit panel held that the federal ban on firearm possession by undocumented immigrants is consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of regulating arms, reversing a district court’s dismissal of a charge against an undocumented immigrant.
A legal advocacy group is asking a federal court to halt a Wisconsin law it says bars non-residents from gathering nomination signatures — with less than four weeks left in the collection window.
The Justice Department launched its ninth lawsuit in a national campaign to block states from offering in-state tuition and financial aid to undocumented immigrants, arguing the benefits discriminate against U.S. citizens.
WASHINGTON (LN) — The Supreme Court will decide if the First Amendment’s church autonomy doctrine protects religious institutions of litigation, not just liability, in a case involving the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
A federal judge in Phoenix ruled that Arizona's statewide voter registration list is not the kind of document Congress required states to preserve — and hand over — under a 1960 civil rights law.
A worker fired after telling HR he reported witnessing a male colleague pursue a female coworker cannot be pushed into arbitration, the court ruled in a case of first impression under a 2022 federal law.
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 Connecticut federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the Bureau of Prisons of terminating a union contract covering roughly 30,000 members in retaliation for the union's opposition to Trump administration budget cuts.
The ruling is the latest in a string of defeats for the Justice Department's nationwide campaign to force states to hand over their statewide voter registration databases under a 1960 civil rights law.
A $1.25 million Missouri jury verdict and more than 100,000 pending lawsuits hang on whether federal pesticide law shuts the courthouse door on state failure-to-warn claims.