The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to overrule two of its own long-standing legal precedents – one about presidential power over federal agencies, which has been in place for over 90 years, ...

The meaning of a single phrase can shape national law. One University of South Carolina professor’s study of how ordinary speakers understand language has reached the highest court in the country.

For more than a half century, the Supreme Court was anchored by a series of conservative centrists who controlled the most anticipated end-of-term rulings in June, pragmatic justices like Sandra Day O ...

HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — A new study found that hundreds of asylum-seekers placed in the Migrant Protection Protocols program spoke 40 different languages, including several rare and ...

Chief Justice Roberts, once such a lawyer, has said he has mixed feelings about the trend. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal correspondent and host of The Docket. Chief Justice John ...

President Trump’s agenda faced more than 600 lawsuits over the past year. In many cases, district court judges found his policies to be unlawful. Cases with at least one active appeal Active 360 ...

Lisa Zeiderman and Julia Rodgers examine how New York Family Court Act §581-306 gives courts discretion to determine embryo disposition when IVF clinic consent forms fail to meet statutory ...