A federal judge has ruled on behalf of an anti-abortion group that contended it should be entitled to the same exemption from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive-coverage mandate as religious…
A Planned Parenthood chapter in Louisiana has filed suit to prevent the state from cutting off Medicaid funding to the organization in the wake of the release of a series…
An Alabama woman denied an abortion after her arrest for allegedly exposing her fetus to methamphetamine and Adderall has dropped her July 20 lawsuit seeking the procedure.
Updated: The National Abortion Federation filed a federal racketeering suit on Friday against the anti-abortion group that released undercover videos in which Planned Parenthood officials discuss the sale of fetal…
In 2014, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens published Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution. And in a short but punchy speech to a…
A federal appeals court has questioned the Supreme Court’s abortion standards while striking down a strict North Dakota abortion law that generally banned abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat…
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican presidential hopeful, signed a bill Monday making it a felony to perform abortions after 20 weeks from fertilization unless a woman’s life is in…
What can you do to get through federal judicial appointment hearings? Try answering questions with baseball metaphors, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski tells Concurring Opinions.
October Term 2014—from Monday, Oct. 6 to Monday, June 29—will be remembered for its decisions that created a right to marriage equality in every state and saved the Patient Protection…
Is there anything you wouldn't do for a paying client? Whether you are a solo practitioner or a lawyer in a firm, the realities of the legal business cause money…
By a 5-4 vote, the nation’s top court on Monday stayed enforcement by the state of Texas of a state law that could have forced nine abortion clinics to close…
The district attorney in Albany, Georgia, has dropped a murder charge against a woman accused of ending her pregnancy with a drug she bought online without a prescription.
A federal appeals court has ruled that plaintiffs challenging a surgical center requirement for Texas abortion clinics should have brought the claim in a prior suit challenging other parts of…