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Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: A judge for the Superior Court of Massachusetts ruled that Massachusetts' attorney general Maura Healey will not be barred by sovereign immunity from bringing a...

A Democratic group headed by former US attorney general Eric Holder sued Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Monday on behalf of several Wisconsin Democrats for his refusal to hold a special election to fill two vacancies in the state...

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo to US Attorneys Wednesday stating that Title VII's prohibition on sex discrimination does not extend to discrimination based on gender identity.Accordingly, Title VII's prohibition on sex discrimination...

JURIST Guest Columnist Loreal Lingad of the St. John's University School of Law discusses the connection between disciplinary actions in schools and incarceration... Out of all of my cousins in the tri-state area, I am the only one who has...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that will lift an Obama-era directive that restricted local police agencies' access to military equipment. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke Monday morning to the...

A federal judge approved a settlement Tuesday between the family of Michael Brown and the city of Ferguson, Missouri. The settlement was approved by Judge E Richard Webber of the US District Court for the Eastern...

Guest Columnist Kip Wainscott, Head of Legal & External Relations at CrowdJustice, discusses the fight against gerrymandering, and the value of digital organizing tools to empower movements and make them more accessible... Across the country, lawyers and voting rights advocates...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday announced its decision to reject an application to create an exchange-traded fund (ETF) tied to the value of Bitcoin , a virtually currency. The fund, proposed by...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 Tuesday that immigrants who are caught entering the US illegally have no right to legal representation in an expedited hearing. A law passed in 1996...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Wednesday that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) can serve a "John Doe" summons to digital-currency-services company Coinbase ...