Law

The case once more raises the issue of persistent racial bias in North Carolina's history of sentencing black defendants.

• By Chinelo Nkechi Ikem

The latest research suggests that we shouldn't be blaming environmental laws for inhibiting development.

• By Candace Butera

There are no available statistics on how many men discreetly remove their condoms during sex, an act known informally as stealthing.

• By James McWilliams

There's one long-term solution to the nuclear threat in the White House: disarmament.

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

The Central Asian nation has a far greater number of female prisoners jailed for murder of a male family member than other countries in the region.

• By Nina Teggarty

If you're thorough about it, yes.

• By Francie Diep

The company reneged on its 100 percent buyback policy, according to the suit.

• By Katie Kilkenny

An analysis of three decades of Supreme Court oral arguments finds male attorneys are treated more deferentially.

• By Tom Jacobs

The former congressman's sentence includes a $10,000 fine and three years supervised release.

• By Kate Wheeling

From weakening protections for survivors of sexual assault to axing protections for transgender students, the administration has made no secret of its animosity toward the Civil Rights Act.

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

Investigators say the Eagle Creek Fire was likely started by a boy's misuse of fireworks. Now Oregonians are calling for criminal charges.

• By Kate Wheeling

Palin filed the suit in June, in response to an editorial the newspaper published following the shooting of a congressman.

• By Jack Denton

Marcellus Williams maintains his innocence, and his supporters argue racial discrimination also played a role in his trial outcome.

• By Kate Wheeling

Rulings in recent years have effectively forced consumers to file class actions in the region where the corporation is based or to disaggregate claims into separate filings.

• By Rick Paulas

Simpson was convicted of 12 offenses in 2008, including kidnapping and armed robbery.

• By Katie Kilkenny

By blocking people from his Twitter account, our lawsuit argues, the president has violated the First Amendment.

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

The ruling could change the way courts consider manslaughter cases in the future.

• By Kate Wheeling

While Congress and the Trump administration continue to push the GOP agenda via legislation, other conservatives are trying to change the Constitution itself.

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

A recent case has opened the next frontier in the fight for transgender rights: the Americans With Disabilities Act.

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

Axelrod, who's on our list of this year's most exciting young thinkers, has a long-term goal of "untangling the immigration bureaucracy from the criminal justice system."

• By Rosie Spinks

Only a tiny percentage of detained immigrants have attorneys, leaving even those with solid cases to stay in the United States to fend for themselves.

• By Patrick G. Lee

Inside the curious phrase that protects peyote and condemns LGBT people.

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

By some metrics, all of them.

• By David M. Perry

Legal financial obligations can saddle a prisoner with exponentially increasing debt long after they’ve been released from prison. It can even land them back in jail. Can the cycle be broken?

• By Arvind Dilawar