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 ...

The Supreme Court took hard right turns in major First Amendment cases, but also sided with civil-rights plaintiffs and ...

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

The Supreme Court just legalized a caste system. And Black folk know the sound of its tongue.

A federal judge on Thursday has again barred President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his executive order ...

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

Brazil's Supreme Court has just made a big decision: digital platforms, such as social media companies, must take more ...

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In a 4-3 ruling, the Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority ruled the 1849 law had been "impliedly repealed" by changes ...

Just two weeks ago, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. On Thursday, the justices ...

Iowa became the first state to remove gender identity from its civil rights code under a law that took effect Tuesday, ...