A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a constitutional challenge by parents in Washington state to laws addressing the rights of transgender runaway children who seek gender-affirming care at shelters.

A federal appeals court ruled that California's law requiring gun owners to undergo background checks to purchase ammunition violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Centre County District Attorney Bernie Cantorna said the ruling could put an end to a “saga that has gone on way too long.”

Federal immigration authorities triumphed over a sanctuary law that sought to ban them from contracting with private detention companies in

As a law student at the University of Georgia, Benjamin A. Land clerked for the Georgia Supreme Court. After decades of judicial experience and a stint serving in the state appellate court, Land will soon return to the Supreme Court,

The 2023 law, previously ruled unconstitutional by a Travis County judge, prevents cities from enforcing ordinances that don’t align with broad swaths of state law.

As Democrats look to the midterms, defending the few state-level judicial seats they hold is a top priority. They only hold three seats on the 15-member Court of Appeals – all of which are up for grabs in 2026. Justice Anita Earls, one of two Democrats on the state Supreme Court, will also run to defend her seat next year.

A dog that fatally mauled an elderly woman in 2019 once again is set to be euthanized after a three-judge panel rejected an appeal from the pet’s owners that sought to keep the quarantined animal alive.

A state appeals court on Thursday upheld the prison sentence for a man convicted last year of the 1995 rape and beating of a Penn State student in State College. The three-judge Superior Court panel rejected each of Scott R.