Former Australian detective Denis Ryan was driven out of the police force in 1972 when he tried to bring a paedophile priest to justice. Now almost 50 years after he was ordered by superiors to drop the case - and deprived of a police pension - Mr Ryan will receive compensation. The 86-year-old man was recently awarded an undisclosed sum by the state government of Victoria.

The battle between the White House and blue states raises questions about the limits of federal authority.

As rapt jurors listened to the judge overseeing Bill Cosby’s sex assault retrial read back prior testimony, the entertainer’s lead lawyer snoozed in his chair. Tom Mesereau, mouth open, drifted in and out of consciousness Wednesday as Judge Steven O’Neill read pages and pages of Cosby’s own words about Quaaludes and his sexual contact with accuser Andrea Constand into the record. Cosby, now 80, sat for the civil deposition over 2004 and 2005, in connection with a lawsuit Constand filed against him that would later be settled for $3.4 million.

Using legislative history to interpret laws once risked tiptoeing over the hot coals of his scorn. No longer. Now justices use it without apology.

The Supreme Court justice talks #MeToo, Millennials, and the cases she’d like to see overturned.

At least three people claimed that they had a legal right to dispose of Manson's body. His remains have been stored in California's Kern County since his death in November.

How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent

Just after 3 p.m. on Monday, all attorneys in the state of Utah received a shocking email from the bar association.

After months of criticism that even spilled into a judge's opinion in a separate case, Allergan's Restasis patent deal with the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe just didn't work. Thanks to a Friday ruling, the blockbuster eye drug has to face the very patent challenge Allergan sought to prevent.

The conservative justices seem prepared to decide Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, a case that could harm public sector unions, without so much as a factual record.

A Supreme Court case on public-sector unions is a reminder of why it matters how Justice Neil Gorsuch landed on the court.

A bitter struggle between a Trump Organization hotel business and the owners of the Panama City hotel that carries the Trump name escalated on Monday when the Panamanian authorities announced that they had begun a formal investigation into the dispute. The country’s Public Ministry said in a brief statement that it was looking into whether there had been any “punishable conduct” in the matter. The decision came in response to a complaint filed with the ministry on Friday accusing Trump executives of illegal “encroachment” on the property, the ministry’s statement said.

With new evidence that he lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it’s time to take the idea seriously.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s off-the-court schedule is full, with at least nine public appearances over three weeks.

Diplomatic immunity doesn't apply to rent bills, according to an Ontario Superior Court justice who on Friday sided with an Ottawa landlord in an unusual legal spat over a luxury townhouse. Last year, Rolf Baumann got a judgment from the Landlord and Tenant Board requiring Betsy Zouroudis, who works at the U.S. Embassy, to pay thousands of dollars in back rent and legal expenses.

The Supreme Court justice’s prose is exhausting to read and impossible to take seriously.

So much for speculation that the notorious RBG was ready to pack up her law books.

There are multiple claims for the notorious killer’s remains, his property or both. A California court will soon take up the matter.

Stepping into the political sphere, the Supreme Court takes up two very different cases involving the redrawing of Congressional lines.

The legal pushback to President Trump's travel ban is part of a growing number of legal challenges in recent years to the expansion of presidential power.