An african-american councilman was tased by a white police officer. All charges were dropped against the councilman but the officer was charged with official oppression.
President Barack Obama has been getting multiple legal hits from the republican states since taking office in January 2009. According to records, President Obama has been sued against his administration 39 times, making lawsuits filed against him one of the more certain things that will happen in his office this year.
A looming bad news for DraftKings and FanDuel players was announced by Texas attorney general Ken Paxton who has ruled based on his legal opinion that daily fantasy sports is deemed illegal under Texas law.
A watchdog group in Texas filed complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Texas Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz for failing to disclose bank loans to fund his 2012 senate campaign.
The controversial case of the "affluenza" teen continues, as his mother, the one who gave the affluenza defense as the reason for the drunk driving incident, was released from jail on Tuesday.
The arrest of two suspected Iraqi terrorists has sparked renewed debates on Syrian refugees coming in United States. Republicans, mainly those from Texas where one of the Iraqi nationals was arrested, have been vocal on their concerns against US federal government’s decision to let Syrian refugees come in.
Three highest-ranking Bandidos leaders were arrested on Wednesday. The three Texas men now faces grand jury indictment with charges on racketeering, assault and drug distribution.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott accused the State Bar of religious discrimination following its refusal to award CLE credit to a Christian ethical perspective course sponsored by St. Mary's University. In response, the State Bar said it will hold a meeting with St. Mary's to achieve an acceptable solution.
The Obama administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Texas abortion regulations. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on 2013 Texas law in March.
The Texas Supreme Court implemented House Bill 3994. The state’s newly passed judicial bypass law that governs the process for abused and neglected minors to obtain court approval to consent to an abortion.
A Wisconsin law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday, addressing a topic the U.S. Supreme Court is considering during its current term.
The U.S. Supreme Court took up a major new abortion case on Friday, agreeing to hear a challenge by abortion providers to parts of a restrictive, Republican-backed Texas law that they contend are aimed at shutting clinics that offer the procedure.
Texas on Monday barred Planned Parenthood from receiving state Medicaid money, the latest setback for the women's healthcare provider since it became embroiled in controversy over undercover videos about its handling of fetal tissue.
A Texas man has been charged with capital murder after a family of six children, one of them his own son, and two adults were found shot to death in a house in Houston, officials said on Sunday.
A U.S. appeals court struck down a Texas law on Wednesday requiring voters to show authorized identification before casting ballots, saying the measure violated the U.S. Voting Rights Act through its "discriminatory effects."
The family of Sandra Bland filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday against a Texas trooper, a sheriff’s office and her jailers, accusing them of being responsible for the woman's apparent suicide in a county jail.
Hundreds of people on Saturday attended the funeral of Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail cell days after she was arrested following a minor traffic offense, an incident said by activists to be yet another example of police brutality toward minorities.
Dashboard camera video released on Tuesday involving the traffic stop in Texas of a woman later found hanging dead in her jail cell showed how the incident quickly escalated into an altercation between her and a state trooper.
The death of an Illinois woman found hanged in her Texas jail cell in what local authorities said was a suicide will be investigated as thoroughly as a murder, the local district attorney said on Monday.
