A six-justice majority ruled that Ohio's artificial-insemination parentage statute cannot be stretched to cover a woman who never wed her former partner, even if same-sex marriage was unavailable in Ohio when their children were born.
A Tennessee federal judge ruled that a DCS team leader who never set foot at the jail — but made calls that helped set a child removal in motion — must face a jury on constitutional claims.
A California federal magistrate judge let stand a wrongful-termination claim by a medical social worker who was fired three days after an unforeseeable medical emergency forced her to miss work without two hours' advance notice.
A Phoenix woman says her ex-husband's children's lawyers emailed her nude photographs to opposing counsel during a life insurance dispute — then immediately sent a settlement offer calling the evidence "concerning to say the least."
A restaurant owner allegedly followed a female manager into the women's bathroom, grabbed her around the waist and touched her buttocks, and told her he wanted to "smack that ass" — then effectively fired her when she refused to meet with him alone.
A federal magistrate judge denied a motion to dismiss, allowing a civil rights and employment discrimination claim against the state transportation agency to proceed to discovery.
A Delaware investor who lost $250,000 on a mobile health app that its own co-founder admitted was only a "vision" wins summary judgment on fraud — but the fight over alleged self-dealing goes to trial.
The state's high court sidestepped the constitutional merits entirely after the agency closed its investigations and the children at the center of the dispute reached adulthood.
A federal magistrate judge has refused to dismiss a former television-station sales executive's claims that Tribune Media Company fired him because of his stomach cancer diagnosis rather than for legitimate business reasons, sending the case to a jury.
A Utah federal court has ordered the City of St. George to pay more than $350,000 in attorneys' fees after the city settled a civil-rights lawsuit brought by a drag performance group whose special-event permit was denied.
District court holds mootness motion in abeyance, converting it to summary judgment standard pending joint inspection of architectural barriers.
Judge John J. Tharp granted Will County’s motion to dismiss a §1983 national origin and ancestry discrimination claim against the Sheriff in both personal and official capacities, but granted leave to amend.
A D.C. federal judge threw out the last surviving claim in a suit challenging the FDA's 2022 refusal to restore a permissive enforcement regime for homeopathic drugs, ruling the plaintiffs could not tie their economic injuries to the specific agency action...
A woman who ran over her sister's girlfriend three times — claiming she was trying to escape her abusive ex-boyfriend — becomes the vehicle for a ruling that reshapes plea bargaining for an entire class of defendants statewide.
A Washington federal court has denied the Department of Justice’s motion to alter or amend its judgment in a dispute over administrative subpoenas for Seattle Children's Hospital records, reinforcing the finding that the government’s demand was pretextual...
A federal judge has ruled that U.S. Border Patrol agents acted reasonably when they shot and killed a driver who accelerated toward them during an arrest attempt following a high-speed pursuit on State Route 94.
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the denial of qualified immunity for a deputy who shot an unarmed, mentally ill man, holding that his right not to be shot under such circumstances was clearly established.