A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought against Boston Public Schools by a group representing parents whose children were denied admission to the city’s prestigious exam schools. The ...

Boston Police Officer Nicholas O'Malley was arrested Thursday and charged with manslaughter in a deadly shooting last week in ...

U.S. House Republicans are taking aim at a 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling that guarantees children have a right to a public education regardless of their immigration status.

In just about a year, Donald Trump has reduced American measures of democracy and free speech to around the level of the 1950s-1960s.

The latest chapter in the long-running saga of inventor Gil Hyatt is beginning to unfold. The current fight is over prosecution laches—and whether the doctrine even exists.

Plea bargains. Bench trials. Pleading the Fifth. Law students—and anyone who has seen Law and Order—will recognize these as familiar features of the US criminal justice system. But, as Emma Kaufman ...

It's impossible to keep track of civil filings in state courts without a good automatic notification system, and that's ...

The Missouri Judiciary has warned the public about a fake website impersonating the state’s Case.net system that could expose users to viruses or malware, and law enforcement is ...

In a caustic critique of the court issued on social media late Sunday night, the president inadvertently buttressed its ...

The current administration is appealing after an appeals court ruled against it, finding that asylum-seekers “arrive in the United States” when they present themselves to immi ...

Despite facing daily fines, the Oregon State Hospital remains in violation of a court order that requires it to admit criminal defendants more quickly for competency treatment. The average time a ...

During Sheriff Marian Brown’s first eight years in office, 71 incarcerated people have died — about a 50% higher death rate than the same period before ...