The Supreme Court’s latest term of almost uniformly hard-right decisions ended last week with the surprise announcement that Justice Anthony Kennedy had decided to retire from the Court. What comes next is almost certain to be an ever more reactionary Court, with Justices Thomas and Gorsuch leading an empowered bloc toward reconsidering established doctrines across the board (abortion rights being only the tip of the iceberg).

Demonstrations erupted in dozens of cities across the country as the right-wing governing party consolidated its power and escalated a clash with the European Union.

The forced dismissal of the judges, including the court’s president, has provoked cries of “Soviet-style justice” while posing a test for the European Union.

A tough new law that will recognise sex without explicit consent as rape comes into effect in Sweden on Sunday, after the country was rocked by the #MeToo movement denouncing sexual harassment and assault. The law stipulates that a person has committed rape if they have been part of a sexual act in which the other person has not participated "freely". Rape had previously been defined as a sexual act carried out with the use of violence or threat.

Disney must sell all 22 Fox-owned regional sports networks, to avoid undue dominance in sports broadcasting.

A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a $229,500 award that a Texas woman had won from Time Warner Cable Inc for harassing her with 153 robocalls after she told it to stop. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the July 2015 award to Araceli King of Irving, Texas, was based on an incorrect interpretation of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (“TCPA”). King, an insurance claims specialist, sought damages because...

The justice believes the law does not prohibit racial gerrymandering. He’s dangerously wrong.

The court ruled that government workers cannot be required to pay for collective bargaining, which could cost public unions tens of millions of dollars.

The announcement gives President Trump the opportunity to create a solid five-member conservative majority and fundamentally change the direction of the court.

The five more conservative justices found a way to win an unwinnable case for American Express.

The majority refused to look beyond the text of the order to see Trump's flagrant anti-Muslim animus.

The ruling may have far-reaching consequences for companies like Amazon, Etsy, and eBay.

No it's not George, not even close.

And they just got one big step closer towards becoming a reality.

This court ruling changes everything about internet e-commerce. Billions in sales every year will now be taxed, which had been left untouched for over a generation.

Judges say ruling party is tightening its grip through threats and hate campaigns

Nearly seven years after two boys pushed a shopping cart off a walkway at a Manhattan mall, severely injuring a woman four stories below, a jury decided to award more than $45 million to her and her family. The woman, Marion Hedges, had just shopped for Halloween candy with her son, Dayton, then 13, at the East River Plaza Mall in East Harlem in October 2011 and was at a parking kiosk when the two boys hoisted the cart over a railing above. It plummeted more than 70 feet and struck Ms. Hedges on the head.

A 96-year-old federal judge in Brooklyn had a “Hey, kids, get off my lawn” moment this week. The kids in question: the United States Supreme Court. The (metaphorical) lawn: the public’s power to hold the police accountable for misconduct and abuse. In a spirited decision issued Monday, the judge, Jack B. Weinstein, argued that the justices had gone too far in a pair of recent rulings expanding qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that protects law-enforcement officers from being sued for actions they perform on the job. Judge Weinstein complained that the broadened doctrine now protects “all but the plainly incompetent.”

As data-sharing scandals continue to mount, a new proposal in California offers a potential solution: the California Consumer Privacy Act would require companies to disclose the types of information they collect, like data used to target ads, and allow the public to opt out of having their information sold. Now, some of tech’s most prominent companies are pouring millions of dollars into an effort to to kill the proposal.

He had a chance to study with a renowned professor. But his (now ex-) girlfriend intercepted a scholarship offer and turned it down.