Despite the widespread agreement on the importance of taking measures to ensure the seriousness of litigation, curb malicious ...

The Eighth Amendment is meant to protect prisoners against abuse. BI has found that Supreme Court decisions and federal laws ...

It was a costly oversight, for the omission of a guarantee of civil ... legal rights.” George E. Butler II, Compensable Liberty: A Historical and Political Model of the Seventh Amendment Public ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights ...

Congress first introduced the ERA in 1923, but the campaign for ratification took off in the 1960s during the civil rights movement. In 1972, Congress passed the amendment and sent it to the ...

A summary of amendments to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, effective January 1, 2025, as adopted by the Florida Supreme Court in a series of opinions on May 23, 2024 and December 5 ...

In response to an alarming increase in the size and frequency of large-scale data breaches involving protected health ...

But, our United States, after the Civil War, had a plan in the 13th Amendment. Slavery, at least in the United States, would be abolished forever. Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ...

The DOJ announced Minneapolis agreed to make systemic reforms to its police department after the 2020 murder of George Floyd sparked a federal probe.

Democrats say they want to stop an "orchestrated campaign of judicial lobbying by an amicus flotilla," but Republicans mock idea that anyone cares if "the Sierra Club has been bought off by the ...