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RALEIGH, N.C. — An animal rights group is asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to take up its lawsuit against a chicken producer accused of widespread animal cruelty. Legal Impact for Chickens filed a petition this week requesting the state’s highest court review a case it brought in 2023

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A federal judge has ruled that Texas has violated federal law for decades by placing individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in nursing homes instead of offering them appropriate community-based services. In a sweeping 475-page opinion issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia said

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up the case of Damon Landor, a Rastafarian inmate in Louisiana who says prison officials violated his religious rights when they forcibly shaved his dreadlocks. Landor had not cut his hair for nearly 20 years, in keeping with his religious beliefs. His lawsuit,

HONOLULU — A nonprofit group has filed suit to stop the planned demolition of the Haʻikū Stairs, an iconic and controversial hiking route in the Koʻolau mountains of Oʻahu. The lawsuit, filed Thursday by the Friends of Haʻikū Stairs, challenges a decision by the State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD) that greenlighted

Federal Ruling Maintains Poultry Waste Is Still Harming Watershed TULSA, Okla. — A federal judge has reaffirmed that poultry waste continues to damage the Illinois River watershed, despite arguments that conditions have improved. U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell issued his updated ruling Tuesday, June 17, stating that Oklahoma met its

SALEM, Ore. — An Oregon Court of Appeals decision has cast doubt on a key forensic method long used in criminal investigations—matching shell casings to firearms. The court ruled that state forensic analysts relied on “subjective judgment” rather than proven scientific standards in a 2018 Portland shooting case, potentially undermining