Civil Rights

Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn as the Supreme Court's 116th justice just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires. More

June 29, 2022

The Supreme Court, in a ruling Friday, ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years. More

June 24, 2022

Transgender people born in North Carolina may now correct the sex designation on their birth certificate without undergoing surgery after a consent judgment issued by a federal court. More

June 23, 2022

Nicholas John Roske, who was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home in Maryland, pleaded not guilty to trying to kill Kavanaugh. More

June 22, 2022

The Supreme Court said Wednesday that an armed man who made threats against Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice's house in Maryland. More

June 8, 2022

U.S. Army Col. Gail Curley, Marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court, will oversee an investigation into the leak of a draft opinion and apparent votes in a major abortion case. More

May 24, 2022

Former President Donald Trump has paid the $110,000 in fines he racked up after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York's attorney general. More

May 20, 2022

Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative political activist, was more involved than previously known in efforts to overturn Biden's victory and keep Trump in office. More

May 20, 2022

Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation for long periods of time amid a critical shortage of public defense attorneys filed a lawsuit that alleges the state violated their constitutional right to legal counsel and a speedy trial. More

May 16, 2022

A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report. More

May 2, 2022

Redfin will change its minimum housing price policy, alter other practices, and pay $4 million to settle the suit brought against it by the National Fair Housing Alliance and nine other fair housing organizations in 2020. More

April 29, 2022

A state investigation launched after George Floyd’s killing in the custody of four Minneapolis police officers has determined that the department engages in a pattern of race discrimination. More

April 27, 2022

Stymied in their calls for a renewed investigation into the murder of Emmett Till, relatives and activists want authorities to launch a kidnapping prosecution against Carolyn Bryant Donham, who set off the lynching by accusing the Chicago teen of improper advances in 1955. More

April 22, 2022

The NFL is telling a judge there are multiple reasons why a lawsuit brought against it by three Black coaches who allege racist hiring practices should fail. The league said it will either ask that the claims of coach Brian Flores and two other coaches be forced into arbitration or be dismissed without a trial because they lack legal merit. More

April 21, 2022

The Florida Senate passed a bill to repeal a law allowing Walt Disney World to operate a private government over its properties in the state, escalating a feud with the entertainment giant over its opposition to what critics call the "Don't Say Gay" law. More

April 20, 2022

Former star of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" NeNe Leakes sued the companies behind the show on Wednesday, alleging that they fostered and tolerated a hostile and racist work environment. More

April 20, 2022

A federal lawsuit challenging Idaho's ban on transgender athletes in women's sports will likely move forward after both sides agreed that the woman who sued is again enrolled at Boise State University and competing in school athletics. More

April 14, 2022

Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. More

April 13, 2022

A New York man who spent nearly 40 years trying to clear his name after a jury tainted by antisemitism wrongfully convicted him of arson has finally been vindicated. More

April 5, 2022

President Joe Biden signs The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law -- lynching is now a federal hate crime. More

March 29, 2022

Three Muslim Americans filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that U.S. border officers questioned them about their religious beliefs in violation of their constitutional rights when they returned from international travel. More

March 24, 2022

Former Google employee sued tech giant for racial discrimination saying it engages in "pattern and practice" of unfair treatment for Black workers. More

March 21, 2022

Relatives of Emmett Till joined with supporters Friday in asking authorities to reverse their decision to close an investigation of his 1955 lynching and instead prosecute a white woman at the center of the case from the very beginning. More

March 11, 2022

Congress gave final approval to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S., sending the bill to President Joe Biden to sign into law. More

March 7, 2022

President Joe Biden on Friday will reportedly nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. More

February 25, 2022

Fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and three teams on Tuesday over alleged racist hiring practices for coaches and general managers, saying the league remains "rife with racism" even as it publicly condemns it. More

February 1, 2022

Two police detectives in Connecticut's largest city have been suspended amid investigations into allegations of insensitivity in their handling of separate cases in which Black women were found dead in their apartments. More

January 31, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring Breyer, 83, has been a pragmatic force on a court that has grown increasingly conservative in recent years, trying to forge majorities with more moderate justices right and left of center. More

January 26, 2022

Wyoming's first Black sheriff last year fired a high-ranking white deputy who is accused of tormenting a Black subordinate for years with racist name-calling that led him to quit, a new federal lawsuit reveals. More

January 24, 2022

The court said it will take up lawsuits claiming that Harvard University, a private institution, and the University of North Carolina, a state school, discriminate against Asian American applicants. More

January 24, 2022