Kathleen Tierney faced felony charges for posting a GIF on a Tempe councilman's Facebook that the city viewed as a threat.

WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear ...

WASHINGTON STATE — Gov. Bob Ferguson made his first appointment to the Washington State Supreme Court, announcing civil rights attorney Colleen Melody will replace retiring Justice Mary Yu. Ferguson ...

A federal judge in Florida wants civil rights attorneys and lawyers for the U.S. and Florida to hammer out a settlement in a lawsuit over whether detainees at an immigration center in the Everglades ...

David Richards, a prominent Austin labor and civil rights attorney who helped reshape political representation for minorities in Texas, died Thursday night in Austin surrounded by family, a friend ...

COMING UP IN JUST A SECOND. NEW TODAY, THE UNVEILING OF A NEW FREEDOM MARKER. >> THAT’S RIGHT. THE MARKER HONORS CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY IN DOWNTOWN JACKSON. THE EFFORTS OF THREE BLACK ATTORNEYS WHO ...

A federal judge shot down a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s sex offender registration laws, ruling that the state is justified in tracking the residencies and online identities ...

During the recent government shutdown, some Republicans in Congress have expressed sympathy for the roughly seven hundred and thirty thousand federal employees who have been performing essential ...

ST. LOUIS — Prominent civil rights lawyer Ben Crump and a team of lawyers is representing nearly two dozen Cardinal Ritter College Prep football players who were pepper sprayed earlier this month ...

GETTING ANSWERS ON KEEPING POLICE ACCOUNTABLE. A GROUP IS IN TOWN BECAUSE OF RECENT PROBLEMS RIGHT HERE IN KANSAS CITY. AT ISSUE, THE DEATH OF AN INMATE INSIDE THE WYANDOTTE COUNTY JAIL. INVESTIGATIVE ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A summit focusing on problems with local and federal authorities kicked off in Kansas City this week. Civil rights attorneys are teaming up to shine a light on cases like ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — National civil rights attorneys will be meeting in Kansas City on Thursday and Friday in the wake of a Wyandotte County Jail death, in which a deputy was charged with murder, and ...