Here’s how federal courts help determine the fate of controversial issues, such as immigration laws, in Texas and beyond.

The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld the sentence of Lima Younes, the mother of former UI student Ali Younes charged with attempted murder in 2023.

The Supreme Court on Monday morning released a long list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Feb. 21 – the ...

FITZGERALD, Ga. (AP) — An appeals court has thrown out pending criminal charges against two men previously convicted of concealing the death of Georgia teacher Tara Grinstead, whose 2005 ...

The lawsuit seeks to hold U.S. firearms manufacturers accountable for gun violence in Mexico, saying the companies knowingly ...

Trump’s order aims to limit birthright citizenship to people who have at least one parent who is a United States citizen or ...

A federal appeals court has revived legal action in the Kendrick Johnson case, allowing his parents to sue individual ...

Marlean Ames, 60, an employee at Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility, contends gay applicants were unfairly given ...

Competing rulings from federal court jurisdictions could tee up the Supreme Court to make its own ruling on whether young people under 21 can legally purchase handguns, something that has been illegal ...

There is just one appeals court for the entire U.S. immigration system — the Board of Immigration Appeals, in Falls Church, ...