The Eighth Amendment is meant to protect prisoners against abuse. BI has found that Supreme Court decisions and federal laws ...
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 ...
In response to an alarming increase in the size and frequency of large-scale data breaches involving protected health ...
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 ...
A Maine Superior Court judge recently ruled the state has denied the constitutional rights of many of its criminal defendants ...
A police incident report admitted "we had no probable cause" to arrest the man on loitering and prowling charges after he ...
NEW ORLEANS — Multiple civil rights groups are threatening legal ... citing a violation of the First Amendment. However, four groups—including the American Civil Liberties Union—still ...
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 ...
A coalition of groups called New Yorkers for Equal Rights is leading the campaign to pass the amendment. Its members include ...
The DOJ announced Minneapolis agreed to make systemic reforms to its police department after the 2020 murder of George Floyd sparked a federal probe.
The University of Northern Iowa is facing a civil rights complaint for allegedly discriminating on the basis of race and sex.