The ruling is the opening salvo in a likely lengthy battle between Texas’ abortion bans and New York’s “shield” protections ...

It is the first ruling in a case challenging “shield laws” intended to protect doctors in states that support abortion rights ...

Nine people have been indicted in a child sex trafficking case involving a teen girl found last month on a boat docked at a ...

Dr. Margaret Carpenter prescribed abortion medication to a 20-year-old woman, who suffered severe bleeding and lost her ...

The new lawsuit comes after the U.S. government filed litigation against Illinois, the city of Chicago and Cook County.

The court reversed Edward Mangano's felony conviction on two bribery counts while upholding three other counts.

President Trump’s first term was marked by significant defeats — and some wins — at the highest court in the country.

Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited approvingly in the Supreme Court’s decisions. By Adam Liptak ...

The Maine Supreme Court will hear an appeal from two York residents challenging the approval of a new cellular antenna.

A New York appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling striking down a state law that prohibits local governments from ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The Louisiana case itself is part of a ...

A 7-year-old lawsuit blaming Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil for climate-change harms to Boulder County will go before the Colorado Supreme ... as courts in New Jersey, New York and Maryland already ...