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A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a Texas law targeting major social media companies like Facebook and Twitter

DENVER – Metropolitan State University of Denver leaders looked at the recurring flare-ups on the nation’s college campuses – where controversial tweets and email, chat room screen shots and student spats explode into storms — and have set a new policy declaring free expression “indispensable” to fulfilling their educational mission.

Nancy Davis was forced to carry the non-viable foetus for another six weeks after learning it had a rare and fatal condition

Speaking at Northwestern Law School, Kagan said the Supreme Court’s legitimacy can be questioned if it is seen as “spoiling for trouble.”

On the defensive for years in Republican-dominated Kentucky, abortion-rights supporters have gained an election-year advantage at a pivotal time

The decision to grant a 14-day restraining order against the state law means abortions through 20 weeks' gestation can continue for now.

"Legis­lat­ors would be free to viol­ate the state consti­tu­tion and state courts could­n't stop them"

Rather than ask why many Americans now hold a dim view of the Supreme Court, Roberts has closed his ears and downplayed the public’s very valid concerns.

A pregnant Texas woman said her fetus should count as a person in an HOV lane. That legal question is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the thorny question of “personhood.”

A pregnant woman walks into an emergency room experiencing a miscarriage, or she gives birth to a stillborn. Someone becomes suspicious and notifies police. They want to know: Is the woman at fault? Everything she’s done during her pregnancy comes under scrutiny. Did she take any drugs or medication? Did…

LOS ANGELES — In May, a federal appeals court ruled that California's ban on semiautomatic rifle sales to adults younger than 21 was unconstitutional. On Wednesday, that same court, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, reversed itself, sending the case back to a lower court to be retried.