ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — A judge in southwestern Michigan is expected to decide in November whether a man convicted of murder over 30 years ago should get a chance at parole because he was 17 at...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Montana can't ban political robocalls based on their content alone, marking the latest in a string of court decisions against U.S....

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court decision that a senior living center in Cheyenne wasn't responsible for a 2016 fatal shooting by a disgruntled...

CHICAGO (AP) — An appeals court has upheld a lower-court decision to block part of a 2017 Indiana law that would make it tougher for underage girls to get an abortion without their parents'...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal appeals court reversed a lower court decision and ruled Friday that the Pennsylvania House of Representatives' policy of barring atheists from delivering...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Friday announced changes to the agency that runs the country's immigration courts, giving its director authority to weigh in and make appellate rulings on...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court has overturned a man's drug conviction after concluding that a forced body cavity search violated his constitutional rights to dignity, personal...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is appealing a court decision that has halted trail work in the Adirondacks.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is asking the state's highest court to...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's Supreme Court on Monday agreed to rule on a lawsuit that the island's Senate filed in a bid to oust a veteran politician recently sworn in as the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A state appeals court decision means Ohio's capital city has resumed banning bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to be fired rapidly.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah county will not further challenge its newly drawn voting districts that led to the county's first majority-Navajo commission getting elected.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday kept alive a lawsuit brought by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted in the killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981, that alleges his...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency rejected a key legal challenge Thursday to a pesticide linked to brain damage in children, saying environmental groups had failed to prove...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pittsburgh has the authority to require employers to provide paid sick leave for workers, Pennsylvania's highest court ruled Wednesday in a decision that overturned two...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Anticipating that the U.S. Supreme Court might end mandatory union fees for public employees, some labor-friendly states enacted laws last year to protect membership...

Billings Gazette, July 10, on court ruling over University of Montana records:

Last week, in a very divided Montana State Supreme Court decision, the state's highest group of judges decided...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Latest on a federal appeals court overturning a Connecticut law that limits the length of Tweed-New Haven Airport's main runway (all times local):

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — As a group of felons challenge a new Florida law that requires them to pay all fines and fees before getting their voting rights restored, their attorneys say they need a...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A mid-level state appeals court has ruled that the state's tree-cutting to create new wider snowmobile trails in the Adirondacks is illegal.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana's secretary of state has decided not to appeal a court decision that blocked him from putting into law a bill that was vetoed by Gov. Steve Bullock.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thursday's Supreme Court decision on partisan gerrymandering reignited calls from progressives for overhauling the high court, putting new pressure on Democratic presidential...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Some Connecticut officials are praising a Supreme Court decision to prevent the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Democrats, including Gov. Jared Polis, celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday to place on hold Trump administration plans to include a citizenship question on...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The developer of a proposed mine in southeast Alaska is moving ahead with exploration following a favorable court decision.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision to uphold state laws introduced in a lame-duck session in December (all times local):

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Court officials and lawyers in North Dakota say few people have tried to undo convictions for refusing DUI blood tests in the year since a state Supreme Court opinion offered...

KEENE, N.H. (AP) — A judge has ruled that New Hampshire's current method for funding public schools is unconstitutional, two decades after a series of court decisions that said the state has a...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware's Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against state officials involving a prostitute's abuse of her children.

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that medical marijuana cardholders are protected from arrest for possessing hashish and other cannabis extracts as long as they don't have more...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate set to die by lethal injection on Thursday wants the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block his execution.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African president Jacob Zuma will hear in three months' time whether corruption, racketeering and money laundering charges against him might be...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A high court ruling barring a crusading former prosecutor's candidacy has turned Guatemala's presidential election on its ear less than a month before the vote, and raised...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin woman whose eviction proceeding was dismissed should be granted her request to remove her record from an online public access system, the state's Appeals Court said...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's Constitutional Court has ruled against the presidential candidacy of former top prosecutor Thelma Aldana, a court official said Wednesday.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge is rejecting attempts by Mississippi officials to throw out a federal government lawsuit challenging how the state runs its mental health system.

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors will ask Pennsylvania's highest court to reverse an appeals court ruling overturning the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence of a former northwestern...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Supreme Court decision will force the state Senate into voting to reject a judicial nominee over political tweets that lawmakers found offensive.

SYDNEY (AP) — A Sydney newspaper and journalist are appealing an Australian Federal Court decision that they defamed Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush with accusations of inappropriate behavior...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's highest court upheld the death sentence and conviction on Friday of a sniper who killed a state trooper and wounded another in a nighttime ambush outside...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island Supreme Court has vacated a lower court's decision that ruled in favor of a swimming pool retailer sued by the parents of a 4-year-old boy who drowned in...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Supreme Court has agreed to review a murder case dismissed on the basis of the state's expanded self-defense law.

DETROIT (AP) — Residents who were wrongly accused of defrauding Michigan's unemployment program won a major ruling Friday as the state Supreme Court set a favorable deadline for people to sue over...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's attorney general said Thursday that he won't release older records on state law enforcement agents' misconduct despite a recently released appeals court...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As legalized wagering on sports spreads, the NCAA remains adamant about prohibiting college athletes from betting.

The association and its members have had to manage the...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a man who was 15-years-old when he fatally shot two men and injured another.

DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers say they've exhausted efforts to slow down or suspend the deportation of Iraqi nationals from the U.S. after a court refused to set aside a decision from one of its...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A labor appeals board was wrong to determine that workers' compensation insurance can't reimburse an employee for the cost of medical marijuana, according to a New Hampshire...