The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death ...

A Texas anti-pornography law is going before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a collision of free speech rights, regulation of online content and the protection of children. Texas is among ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over a challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age ...

A routine traffic stop in Texas turned deadly within seconds when a police officer shot and killed 24-year-old Ashtian Barnes ...

Southern Methodist University in Dallas tried to declare its independence after the church voted to ban gay weddings and clergy in 2019.

The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit applied the Supreme Court’s “historical tradition” test.

When Nathan Hecht ran for the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, no Republican had ever been elected to the state’s highest civil court. His election foreshadowed a transformation of the court ...

The case brought by the porn industry over a Texas age-verification law could determine the fate of more than a dozen similar ...

The case arrived at the Supreme Court after a federal district court granted a preliminary injunction blocking Texas' age-verification requirement. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th ...

The justices are preparing to hear arguments in March over the federal government’s licensing of a temporary storage facility ...

A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that Texas may be permitted to require some form of age verification for pornographic sites, but left open the possibility that deeper First ...

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