A newly amended civil complaint alleges New Mexico's child welfare agency allowed a Socorro child born with drugs in his system to return to the care of his mother, leading to the boy's overdose death ...

With the state’s family shelter system under pressure from mounting costs and violent on-site incidents, Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday recommended statutory changes to the<a class="excerpt-read-more" ...

Last year, the state Legislature passed a law to seal people’s old criminal convictions. Now cops want the same treatment.

You have essays there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.?” the jurist asked to laughter ...

A Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of users before allowing them access will go before the Supreme ...

The Supreme Court heard a challenge from PornHub and other sites to the Texas law that requires age verification — via government-issued ID or face scan — for certain websites, including porn sites.

In South Carolina, it is illegal to work on Sundays and for anyone 18 years old or younger to operate a pinball machine.

A new federal law should help state and university leaders combat the practice. The law, sponsored by U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, ...

Feel your commitment to your New Year’s resolution flagging already? Skinner’s law is decades old, but it is still the ...

We have a duty to our profession, our clients and the courts to ensure that our legal theories are based on provable facts ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed 29 bills into law on Wednesday, putting an official end to the 135th General Assembly. Each bill signed will become law ...

Another new state law requires porn websites to verify that visitors are at least 18 years old. But the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult entertainment industry, has filed a ...