Attorney Stanley Booker alleges a pattern of "harsh rulings" and missing transcripts in Venango County, all of which are ...

Prisoners and nonprofit advocates await a decision from a federal judge after asking him to declare state prison conditions unconstitutional.

There are Supreme Court cases that arrive draped in abstraction. Their stakes are real, but the dispute comes to the court in such rarefied doctrinal form that the underlying injury almost disappears.

The Arkansas Board of Election Commissioners will ask the entire Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to consider its ...

A Long Island man who carried out a series of murders known as the Gilgo Beach killings has pleaded guilty to murder charges.

The Gilgo Beach murders case made headlines nationwide for years, and Wednesday, Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to seven counts ...

The Eighth Circuit’s bankruptcy panel barred a man who isn’t an attorney from representing his wife in a bankruptcy matter because it would be unauthorized practice of law in North Dakota.

Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty on Wednesday in the Gilgo Beach serial killings case, admitting in a Long Island courtroom to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court may reinterpret what is considered a "cruel and unusual punishment." If they do, Albany might become a ...

Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

Although state takeovers of school districts have existed in Texas for more than 25 years, the law that triggered the Fort ...

In April 2019, four current and former prisoners incarcerated at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility located ...