The District Court for the District of Columbia has granted summary judgment to the Washington Area Bicyclist Association, holding that the National Park Service and Federal Highway Administration acted arbitrarily and capriciously in deciding to remove...
A federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss a gay former D.C. Housing Authority police officer's Title VII lawsuit alleging the agency fired him based on his sexual orientation after a colleague's sexual assault accusation that the Metropolitan Police...
A federal judge in Washington has denied the District of Columbia Housing Authority’s motion to dismiss, allowing a gay police officer’s employment discrimination lawsuit to move forward.
Cynthia Marie Hairston’s racial discrimination and retaliation claims against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill survived a motion to dismiss, allowing her employment lawsuit to proceed.
A published ruling resolves a novel question of New Jersey law, holding that snow tubers are "skiers" under the Ski Act and that a resort operator cannot be sued under common law for a tubing injury when the plaintiff cannot show the operator had notice of...
A divided Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court held that the state's near-total exclusion of abortion from Medicaid coverage violates both the state Equal Rights Amendment and the state constitution's equal protection guarantees, permanently enjoining...
A man convicted in the 1994 shooting death of a seven-year-old Chicago boy wins the right to pursue a successive postconviction petition after an appellate court held that newly discovered evidence of systematic police misconduct — and an affidavit claiming...
A Cook County mother lost her appeal to reverse termination of her parental rights to four children, even though the appellate court agreed the trial court erred in letting her attorney withdraw without following proper notice procedures.
In a question of first impression for Illinois appellate courts, the Third District holds that some pre-event safety failures fall outside the Tort Immunity Act's supervision shield.
The Southern District of California granted final approval of a class action settlement resolving allegations that San Diego State University engaged in systemic sex-based discrimination against female varsity student-athletes.
A Western District of Wisconsin judge denied qualified immunity to a St. Croix Falls police officer on claims that he allowed a police dog to continue biting a subdued suspect and retaliated against a bystander for protected speech.
The Sixth Circuit vacated a district court order allowing discovery to proceed before ruling on a police officer’s qualified immunity motion, holding that such a deferral is only permissible if the court first finds a genuine dispute of material fact.
The Rhode Island Office of the Child Advocate has standing to file due process complaints under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act on behalf of children in state custody, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island held.
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a Catholic preschool’s claim that Colorado violated the First Amendment by excluding it from a universal preschool program because the school refused to admit LGBTQ children and children with LGBTQ parents.
New York Attorney General Letitia James secured a settlement with Syracuse landlords Brian A. Murphy and Harry Murphy to address widespread lead hazards and unsafe housing conditions in their rental properties.
Judge Andrea R. Wood denied New Choice Intervention’s motion to dismiss most of Brianna Jackson’s Americans with Disabilities Act claims, allowing her discrimination, failure-to-accommodate, and retaliation counts to move forward.
A three-judge Eleventh Circuit panel has remanded a civil-rights case against Georgia corrections officers to the district court after the full court reversed a qualified immunity ruling that had shielded the officers from suit.
A federal district court in Arkansas has granted a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of Act 900 of 2025, a state law imposing new restrictions on social media platforms regarding minor users.
Smiths Detection Inc. agreed to pay $100,000 and provide significant remedial relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.