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UPDATED   The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Alabama’s top court went too far when it tried to upend a lesbian mother’s adoption of her partner’s children. The justices threw out a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court in a dispute between ...

The state of Missouri may owe lawyers for the Westboro Baptist Church more money after years of litigation over the state’s funeral protest law. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that a district court judge’s award of ...

The U.S. government is investigating complaints that the brakes can fail on Ford’s F-150 pickup truck, one of the most popular vehicles in the nation. Ford’s F-Series pickup is the top-selling vehicle in the U.S., and the F-150 accounts for ...

The Florida Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that an artist can sue UPS in state court over two paintings removed from their shipping tube while in transit and sold by the company UPS contracts to handle its lost-and-found operation. The ...

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles of potential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. As a federal appeals court judge, Jane L. Kelly has an unusual background: She’s a criminal defense ...

A fight is brewing in the Missouri Legislature over an unlikely topic — beer coolers. The measure, passed 18-14 on Thursday in a tight vote in the state Senate, would allow breweries to lease coolers to grocers and other stores ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned another ruling by the same conservative federal judge in Nevada, criticizing his unorthodox handling of a Burning Man lawsuit and taking the extraordinary step of ordering him off a case for the ...

With executions halted and the prosecution of some murder cases in limbo, the Florida Legislature overhauled the state’s death penalty law Thursday in response to a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that the current sentencing law is unconstitutional. Legislators sent ...

An Alabama judge on Thursday threw out the state’s system for imposing the death penalty, the same day Florida lawmakers passed a bill to revamp a similar sentencing mechanism. Jefferson County Circuit Judge Tracie Todd sided with defense attorneys who ...

  Reginald Clemons appeared in St. Louis Circuit Court this week to determine counsel for his capital double-murder retrial, but no decision was made and the delay is likely not the last complication for attorneys on both sides. The case ...

A federal jury has rejected a lawsuit filed by a man who claimed Ferguson police beat him while he was handcuffed in 2009. The jury on Wednesday ruled in favor of police and against Henry M. Davis, formerly of St. ...