The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a case very similar to 2003′s Grutter v. Bollinger. Because of the change in Justices, Grutter won’t survive.

Jim Schatz, a Democratic politician who lost his bid for a Maine Senate seat in 2010, recently lost an appeal; his defamation claim was dismissed because the lies in an attack ad weren’t made knowingly.

In response to a preclearance request to approve Texas’s new voter ID laws, the Justice Department asked for voting data on race. Texas said it doesn’t have it because it’s “colorblind.”

A federal judge in Texas recently ruled that a woman fired for asking to breast-pump during her breaks wasn’t entitled to protection because lactation isn’t pregnancy-related.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned California’s 2008 ballot initiative Proposition 8. How will that decision affect other laws nationwide?

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled for a husband who sued the biological father for costs incurred in raising the child with biological mother whom he has divorced.

Shelby County, Alabama is claiming that Congress overstepped its powers by re-authorizing Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, because voter discrimination isn’t what it used to be.

Costa Cruise Lines and its parent Carnival are facing a lawsuit over the Costa Concordia disaster from six of the ship’s passengers. Claimed damages are $460 million

Section 5 of 1965′s Voting Rights Act requires certain states to get federal approval before making voting law changes. Opponents want the Supreme Court to strike it down.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal law preempted California’s own laws banning the slaughter and sale of downer livestock animals.