By P.J. Dannunzio | October 30, 2017
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has blocked most of President Donald Trump's prohibition of transgender military service, while leaving the ban on Defense Department funding of gender reassignments intact.
By Tony Mauro | October 30, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court won't weigh in on a California dispute over the payments some municipalities require developers to make to support low-income housing.
By Erin Mulvaney | October 27, 2017
Greg Nevins, the workplace fairness program strategist at Lambda Legal, is involved in three high-profile appeals court cases that consider whether LGBT employees can sue under federal civil rights law for alleged workplace discrimination.
By Tony Mauro | October 27, 2017
It's tradition for solicitors general to argue the government's most important case each cycle. In November that's a challenge to Ohio's voter purge rules.
By Marcia Coyle | October 26, 2017
U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco will make the government's arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court in December in support of a Colorado baker who refused on religious grounds to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
By Cogan Schneier | October 26, 2017
In a speech at the Heritage Foundation, the attorney general said judges who have entered nationwide preliminary injunctions against President Donald Trump's policies are carrying out policy preferences, not the law.
By Marcia Coyle | October 26, 2017
The D.C. Circuit's blockbuster ruling that allowed an undocumented immigrant to leave federal custody to have an abortion marked the court's rare foray into hot-button social issues. It's an open question just how far-reaching the ruling will be either to the underlying purported class of pregnant undocumented minors or to immigration litigation at large. Judge Brett Kavanaugh, writing in dissent, said any precedential value of the court's decision will be debated.
By Cogan Schneier | October 24, 2017
The court reversed an order it issued Friday that blocked the 17-year-old from getting the procedure until a sponsor could be found for her.
By Marcia Coyle | October 23, 2017
"J.D. came to the United States without legal documentation. That is not disputed. But the government cannot make a forced pregnancy the sanction for that action. J.D. retains her basic rights to personhood," Judge Patricia Millett wrote in her dissent. Here's a snapshot of the foundation of Millett's writing.
By Cogan Schneier | National Law Journal | October 20, 2017
The government argues it should not be required to facilitate an abortion for a pregnant undocumented minor, while the ACLU contends the government is violating her constitutional rights.
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