Law & Society

The day before Valentine's Day brought out a passionate outpouring of activism from noted personalities, including lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and civil rights leader Julian Bond, as well as actress Daryl Hannah, after tying themselves to the White House gate to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, an up-and coming South African model who spoke out on social causes. In the predawn house on Valentine's Day, she was reportedly shot four times in Pistorius' home.

The lawsuit says that the school illegally supports Christianity in public school by displaying a Jesus Christ portrait.