While emergency docket decisions typically lack much reasoning, Mirabelli offers a highly significant discussion and a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But to truly understand the term, we must also take stock of the so-called shadow docket, where the justices decide emergency ...

The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Supreme Court this week to dismiss a case the justices are scheduled to hear in their upcoming term about a transgender sports law, a move opponents claim ...

Alan Dershowitz was present at the creation of New York Times v. Sullivan. Now he is asking the Supreme Court to revise or destroy it. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal correspondent and ...

The Karen Read murder case docket was flooded with some 50 filings since Tuesday, including a formerly sealed motion to dismiss, as the sides finalize issues before the trial begins next week. Read, ...

This January, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in the Idaho case to decide whether transgender women and girls should be able to participate in sports that align with their gender ...

The Supreme Court on Monday added one new case, involving procedural issues that arose in a lawsuit claiming that an organic baby food caused a child’s case of autism spectrum disorder, to its docket ...

Federal prosecutors provided a large amount of evidence to Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr.'s attorney in a bribery and tax evasion case. A juvenile court judge ruled that a 17-year-old ...

One day after the schedule for Brian Walshe's murder trial was upset by an order that he undergo a competency evaluation at a state hospital, the case is due in a Massachusetts courtroom for a status ...

Duke Energy customers in the Upstate have one more chance to provide their thoughts on proposed electric rate increases to the Public Service Commission (PSC) on May 20 in Columbia. Residents who ...