A federal appeals court that already has said private individuals and groups cannot sue under a key part of the federal Voting Rights Act went even further Wednesday toward blocking lawsuits over ...

The UN Stockholm Convention votes to add the neurotoxic insecticide chlorpyrifos, linked to brain damage in children, to ...

Attorneys representing the tribes say the appellate court’s ruling eliminates voters’ ability to challenge racial ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday shut down the ability of private individuals to bring Voting Rights Act lawsuits ...

A federal appeals court foreclosed on Wednesday one of the main remaining means by which civil rights activists could enforce ...

After a challenge by Republican officials in North Dakota, a federal appeals panel struck down a key way of enforcing the ...

a panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, granted the stay request of Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs, who has asked federal judges to throw out the recent ...

arrested at immigration detention center he has been protesting Turkish Tufts University student released from Louisiana immigration detention center The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ...

The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New York, ruled Monday that a three-judge panel would hear arguments on May 6 in the case of Rumeysa Ozturk. She’s been detained for five weeks as ...