While the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority is pushing the law rightward, the justices appointed by GOP presidents ...

Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, known formally as 42 U.S.C. §1983, is a federal law that allows for the suing ...

Harvard University law and history professor Kenneth Mack provided an introduction to his lecture about African American law student Lloyd Gaines, who petitioned the Supreme Court when he was denied ...

Decades before Mahmoud v. Taylor, parents sought to opt their children out from textbooks, sex ed programs and health classes ...

Harmeet Dhillon said the DOJ's Civil Rights Division is rebuilding under President Trump as longtime staff leave, allowing ...

The court’s choice to punt a key redistricting case signals trouble for the future of the Voting Rights Act. Support ...

A Muslim inmate who won a U.S. Supreme Court case upholding his right to grow a beard for religious reasons said in a lawsuit that Arkansas officials transferred him to a federal prison in West ...

The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case over state restrictions on which school sports teams transgender students ...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to allow Florida to enforce a state law criminalizing entry into the state by undocumented immigrants, leaving in place a federal judge's preliminary ...

In a unanimous opinion, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that venue shopping, or filing court cases in a ...

In a 4-3 ruling, the Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority ruled the 1849 law had been "impliedly repealed" by changes ...