The Supreme Court ruled Thursday against the Trump administration’s effort to end the Obama-era program that offers legal protections to young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. 

The Supreme Court handed a big win to the LGBT community Monday, ruling in a 6-3 decision that an employer who fires a worker for being gay or transgender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act -- which already protected people from employer sex discrimination, as well as discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin.

A federal judge in Seattle has issued a temporary injunction preventing police in the city from using tear gas or other “chemical irritants” against peaceful protesters.

Judges on a D.C. appeals court Friday seemed skeptical of arguments that they should force a federal judge to dismiss a case against President Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn as sought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) -- after Flynn's lawyer said the case was "concocted" and slammed previous "government misconduct" against him. 

John Gleeson, the attorney and retired judge who was appointed by Judge Emmet Sullivan to submit a brief discussing whether federal prosecutors should be able to dismiss their case against Michael Flynn, insisted in a filing Wednesday that not only does Sullivan have the authority to reject the government’s request but he should do so.

As the economic and social shutdown stretches into months, Americans across the ideological divide have increasingly voiced frustration at isolation orders -- with businesses, parks, schools and churches shuttered.

A Michigan judge has blocked efforts by the state’s attorney general to continue trying to hold a local barber in contempt of court, over the businessman’s refusal to keep his shop closed during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Justice Department has formally asked the Supreme Court to block a lower court order to turn over secret grand jury material from the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation to a House committee.

The Justice Department on Thursday filed charges against more than two dozen Chinese and North Korean individuals in an alleged scheme to divert more than $2.5 billion in illegal funds for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a stay of execution for a Missouri inmate set to die by lethal injection Tuesday evening.