Law

A German court banned a comedian from repeating large sections of a satirical text about Recep Tayyip Erdogan, handing Turkey’s President a partial victory in efforts to silence mockery and criticism of him in Germany.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto proposed legalizing gay marriage, a move that would enshrine on a national level a Supreme Court ruling.

A Bank of America executive accused her employer of misleading trading clients, in a lawsuit in which she called the bank a “bros club” and said it discriminated against her for being a woman.

The Supreme Court dodged ruling on litigation brought by religious employers that objected to an Obama administration policy requiring contraception coverage in workers’ insurance plans.

the San Francisco-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the Second Amendment protects the right to buy and sell firearms, as well as the right to keep and bear them.

Commercial litigation financing only took hold in the U.S. less than a decade ago. Now pension funds and other well-heeled investors are finding it an attractive investment.

A Chinese-American hydrologist at the heart of a discontinued spy case has filed a discrimination complaint against the Commerce Department after it fired her for many of the same allegations a U.S. attorney decided to drop.

Insider-trading cases have gotten tougher for the government after federal judges raised the bar for prosecution, but defendants can get tripped up as well, as two former brokers are learning

An activist in Omaha is asking a federal court to ban balloon releases at University of Nebraska football games, the latest skirmish in a nationwide battle over whether the soaring spectacles exact a heavy toll on the environment.

Williams Cos. has filed a new lawsuit against pipeline giant Energy Transfer Equity, seeking to force the company to proceed with their $33 billion merger.

Police across the U.S. are closely monitoring the trial of a Baltimore officer charged with assault for his role in the arrest of Freddie Gray on the day last year Mr. Gray sustained fatal injuries in police custody.

The Obama administration extended antibias protections to transgender people seeking health care, broadening a federal push to define what constitutes illegal discrimination against such individuals.

A judge has rejected the Justice Department’s practice of getting gag orders against technology companies, saying federal agents should have to give a reason why consumers shouldn’t be told when their data is searched.

The House Benghazi Committee and the State Department are at odds over a number of documents the panel is seeking in its investigation into the 2012 terrorist attack that killed four Americans in Libya.

A federal judge ruled the Obama administration was wrongly reimbursing insurers to cover discounts for very-low-income consumers under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, a blow to administration efforts to fully implement the health law.

A federal appeals court in California is expected to rule soon on whether states can force firearm manufacturers to incorporate safety devices in their products, a development that could have broad effect on whether and how quickly President Obama’s recent calls for more “smart guns” takes effect.

A federal judge’s ruling that blocked the merger of Staples and Office Depot is prompting renewed scrutiny of the two companies’ surprising legal decision to forgo the presentation of their case in court.

A new federal regulation will lead to the public posting of information about workplace injuries and illnesses employers have typically logged for their private use.