In the first half of this year, 15 states managed to pass almost 40 laws that restrict women's reproductive rights.
The Department of Justice is investigating whether Pennsylvania's new voter identification law discriminates against minorities, according to a letter released on Monday.
Both Bristol Palin and Willow Palin -- daughters of Republican lightning rod Sarah Palin -- have been criticized for their homophobic remarks in the past, and it appears Bristol's son Tripp has picked up on the habit.
Mojang, developer of the enormously popular independent video game Minecraft, announced Saturday it is being sued for patent infringement. Because of the nature of the claim by a small company based in Plano, Texas, and named Uniloc USA Inc., it is believed by some that Uniloc may be a patent troll.
How rude! Jodie Sweetin is heading to court after filing a lawsuit against Clark Taylor Savros, the driver who struck her car in Los Angeles over a year ago.
Kristen Saban, the daughter of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban, who apparently inherited her father's short temper, has finally responded to the civil lawsuit filed by Sarah Grimes, her fellow sorority sister at University of Alabama, for beating the living snot out of her on a Saturday night in 2010.
Tom Cruise is lashing out via his attorney, Bert Fields, yet again. TMZ reports that Fields is outraged over Life & Style's latest cover story, which alleges that Cruise has neglected his 6-year-old daughter, Suri.
The top after-market NYSE gainers Wednesday were Emulex Corp, New York Times, Tempur-pedic International, International Business Machines and Titan International. The top after-market NYSE losers were Greenhill & Co, Convergys, Whiting USA, Stryker Corp and Diana Shipping.
Relatives of U.S. citizens killed by drone strikes in Yemen have filed a lawsuit against senior members of the Obama administration, the latest legal challenge to the president's aggressive use of armed drones.
President Barack Obama's reelection campaign has sued Ohio over a law restricting early voting, arguing that the law discourages some Ohioans from being able to cast ballots.
Heating up the so-called smartphone patent war, HTC has filed two counterclaims against Apple in the Southern District of Florida, claiming that the iPhone-maker has infringed on two HP patents it acquired in December last year.
Wallerand de Saint-Just, a lawyer for the National Front, told the European press that legal action would be filed later this week, adding that projecting such an image of Marine Le Pen with a swastika implies that she is a Nazi.
Rapper DMX was hospitalized with a concussion Saturday after losing control of his ATV in South Carolina.
The settlement, which lawyers are calling the largest antitrust settlement in U.S. history, would resolve dozens of lawsuits filed by retailers in 2005 that accused the card companies of fixing fees for processing credit and debit card payments and prohibiting stores from steering their customers to cheaper forms of payment.
A mom is suing Justin Bieber for $9.23 million, claiming the Biebs is responsible for wrecking her ears after screaming fans at a Portland, Ore., concert damaged her hearing.
Kristen Saban, the daughter of University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban, is asking a Tuscaloosa County judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging she injured a sorority sister in a fight stemming from a Facebook post.
The latest controversy in the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes divorce stems from reports featured in the National Enquirer. The tabloid labels Cruise a monster who subjected Holmes to a house of horrors during their five-year marriage.
According to recent reports, Sprint variant of the Samsung Galaxy S3 was about to receive an OTA (over-the-air) update that would disable the universal search functionality on the handset. The update means that users of the Sprint Galaxy S3 won't be able to use the Google search bar on the homescreen to find their apps, contacts and other data. Only web-based results will return when they search with that method.
Ammons was recently given a vote of no confidence by the school's board of trustees and has been criticized for mishandling the school's anti-hazing policies.
Mac Miller is facing a $10 million lawsuit from Lord Finesse, who is claiming the 20-year-old rapper stole the instrumental from his 1995 hit Hip 2 Da Game to launch his hip-hop career, and the two entertainers have taken to Twitter to explain their sides of the beef.
Peri & Sons Farms has agreed to pay a record $2.3 million in back wages to 1,365 foreign seasonal agricultural laborers who had worked for the Yerington, Nev.-based onion grower under the H-2A visa program.
Nadya Suleman, better known as Ocotmom, is reportedly being sued for backing out of a deal that had her set to dance at a Florida strip club. According to USAToday, the mother of 14 is now facing a lawsuit after she doubled back on a signed contract that said she would dance topless in eight shows at T's Lounge in West Palm Beach.
