A Department of Justice division tasked with protecting basic individual rights is expected to shift its position on key ...

A federal civil rights lawsuit tied to a vehicle that was rented during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests was settled last ...

The Justice Department said its investigation was sparked by racist texts allegedly exchanged by officers from late 2019 to ...

NY attorney general’s office is seeking to be removed as defense counsel in four cases pending in U.S. District Court ...

Judge Mark Norris made the ruling after attorneys for Tyre Nichols’ estate and his mother argued the DOJ investigation into ...

and participate in important state court cases. As federal courts have grown increasingly hostile to the protection of civil liberties, state supreme courts play an especially important role in ...

The existing case inclusions were generated in response to the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act, signed into law in 2019 by President-elect Trump during his first term. The bill ...

Nine years after rape and domestic violence survivors began accusing veteran Horry County Police Detective Allen Large of ...

A report issued in November by an Arkansas advisory committee tasked with identifying challenges to state effectively ...

Title IX facilitated the movement of civil rights cases from state courts to federal courts. Title X created the Community Relations Service that would assist in disputes involving ...