PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona Supreme Court decision in a privacy rights case from Pima County says authorities could legally conduct a warrantless search of the cellphone of a man who was on felony...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal court on Friday turned down an appeal from an imprisoned Cincinnati man whose 2013 murder trial hinged on the paralyzed, hospitalized victim having blinked his eyes to...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Monday that he's given up trying to push through any more statewide restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus because he thinks rival...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court should let New York’s Democratic presidential primary proceed on June 23 over the objections of the state, a lawyer for delegates said...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A state trooper's decision to stop a driver who flashed an obscene hand gesture wasn't justified, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday, overturning lower court...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island Supreme Court has overturned a lower court decision and ruled that the state is required to follow the same rules as private developers and get the same...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's attorney general can keep distributing millions of dollars paid by the world's largest pork producer as environmental grants after a state Supreme Court...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Cattle producers can apply to compete for access to federal grazing allotments that Oregon’s Hammond Ranches lost in a court decision.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court has agreed to hear PolyMet Mining Inc.'s appeal of a ruling that canceled three permits needed for its proposed copper-nickel mine in...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court on Tuesday rejected a request by Republican lawmakers for its full cadre of judges to rehear a challenge over implementing voter photo...

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review whether a 2015 lawsuit alleging gross failures in the foster-care system should be treated as a class-action matter.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — It might be the most talked-about Christmas party at the Michigan Supreme Court.

The justices on Friday let stand an appeals court decision and said a jury should...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers have passed legislation to embrace a landmark state Supreme Court decision affirming that the Lake Michigan shoreline is publicly owned and open to all for...

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has partially accepted Google's appeal against a ruling that ordered it to erase news articles about a man accused of sexual abuse, but the new judgement said the...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A mid-level appeals court decision issued last summer that allowed some victims of childhood sexual abuse a way to pursue lawsuits despite time limits will be reviewed by...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders want the state’s entire Court of Appeals to hear arguments on a ruling by three of the court’s judges that set another barrier to...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A parent loses the ability to protest a child's adoption by failing to support the child as required by law or a judge's orders, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday...

NEW YORK (AP) — The jury in Harvey Weinstein’s trial tells judge it has reached a verdict in his rape and sexual assault case.

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey Superior Court judge has denied a neighborhood's attempt to leave a township and join a neighboring borough.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish court acquits nine civil society figures of charges in protest trial, including Turkish philanthropist.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Delaware prison inmate who complained about running out of toilet paper.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A candidate for an Arkansas circuit judge post should remain on the ballot despite a misdemeanor traffic offense, the state Supreme Court said Thursday in reversing a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate rejects calling witnesses in Trump impeachment trial, pushing one step closer to acquittal vote.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A divided Iowa Supreme Court concluded Friday that a central Iowa recreational lake that owners tout as the state’s largest private lake isn’t private at all because it is...

PARIS (AP) — An appeals court acquits a French cardinal of covering up the sexual abuse of minors.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida Supreme Court decision involving the death penalty has thrown between 100 to 150 cases into legal limbo, experts say.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court said Thursday it erred in 2016 when it ruled a jury must be unanimous in deciding a convicted murderer should be sentenced to death, announcing a...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents and abortion rights supporters packed the Kansas Legislature's largest committee room Tuesday as two committees reviewed a proposal for overturning a state...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Supreme Court upholds weapons ban for pro-gun rally next week, rejecting appeal from gun-rights groups.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico Supreme Court decision says at least some tribal casino workers injured on the job can't receive benefits through the state's workers' compensation program....

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...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bowing to pressure from anxious allies, President Donald Trump abruptly reversed himself Wednesday and signed an executive order halting his administration's policy of separating children from their parents when they are detained illegally crossing the U.S. border.

It was a dramatic turnaround for Trump, who has been insisting, wrongly, that his administration had no choice but to separate families apprehended at the border because of federal law and a court decision.