Seven Republican-led states sued on Tuesday to block President Joe Biden’s new policy to reduce or eliminate the student loan balances of millions of borrowers, claiming the Education Department is illegally preparing to start debt cancellation before the rule is finalized.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Biden administration to strip millions of health care dollars from Oklahoma over its refusal to direct patients to information about abortions—a federal requirement that the state says would be at odds with its strict ban on terminating pregnancies.

Most dog moms and cat dads accept the hard truth that they will likely outlive their beloved animals. But what happens when pets outlive their humans?

Although it offers a wealth of biographical detail, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s new memoir, Lovely One, showcases little of the feistiness that marks Jackson’s judicial pronouncements.

Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, the ABA has argued in an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Special counsel Jack Smith is trying to nurse back to health cases with potentially fatal ailments: in Florida, a set of charges dismissed by a highly skeptical Trump appointee; in D.C., a case of alleged election obstruction that the nation’s highest court has already amputated once, and may do so again.

The Maryland Supreme Court on Friday upheld an appellate court’s decision to reinstate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, a blow to the “Serial” podcast subject but one that probably does not conclude his legal fight.

The July 2024 Multistate Bar Examination boasted more test-takers than the previous year, while the mean score on the just-completed exam went up.

“Of all my legacies, this is the one I’m most proud of,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor told about 200 parents, children, actors and musicians gathered in a church hall to rehearse a musical adaptation of her children’s book Just Ask. “You have brought to life a book that was in my head for over 35 years.”

A federal appeals court ruled this week that a lawyer’s mandatory membership in the Oregon State Bar violated his freedom-of-association rights because its magazine published statements that criticized former President Donald Trump and implied that the membership agreed.