Federal Preemption

Illinois is forging ahead with the Illinois Food Safety Act to ban brominated vegetable oil (BVO) and some other additives, spotlighting a tug-of-war over

The Republican National Committee and GOP state legislative leaders in Arizona asked the Supreme Court to put on hold a federal district court's order that blocked the voting laws while they pursued an appeal.

The dispute pitted Idaho's near-total abortion ban against a federal law that requires Medicare-funded hospitals to offer abortions when needed to stabilize a patient's emergency medical condition.

When you've lost Justice Barrett on an abortion case ...

The Supreme Court is preparing to dissolve matters that restrict access to the abortion drug mifepristone, which was encouraged by the Food and Drug Administration.

The Supreme Court permits Texas law that would allow its police to arrest migrants who illegally cross the Rio Grande and to return them to Mexico.

How far does state sovereignty go? An important Supreme Court decision is on the horizon.

States have used this power aggressively since George Floyd's murder.

There's confusion around the Supreme Court's recent order regarding attempts in Texas to seal the state's southern border. Here's what is really going on and what might happen next.

The Hawai'i state Supreme Court has ruled that a potentially historic lawsuit against oil companies can move forward to trial—potentially as soon as 2024.

The American Hospital Association says new regs from the HHS Office for Civil Rights clash with HIPAA, contradict interoperability efforts and are "flawed as a matter of law and harmful as a matter of policy."

The Supreme Court returns to Washington to face a new term and the fresh reality that critics increasingly view the court as a political body.

Local leaders in Texas' increasingly progressive major cities were joined by workers' rights advocates and other pro-democracy groups on Thursday as they applauded a district court judge's ruling that a Republican-authored law aimed at superseding local regulations is unconstitutional and should be ...

Donald Trump's chief defense will face an early test soon when his attorneys appear for a hearing to decide how to handle issues involving classified materials.The former president insists that he lawfully declassified all the materials he took from the White House before leaving office, but nationa...

SCOTUS unlikely to review Genius' unusual case against Google.

There's a glaring problem with the coverage of the country's high court.

A group of TikTok creators have sued to block a law banning the ByteDance-created app in Montana over alleged national security concerns.

Lawmakers admitted the bills were crafted solely in response to the controversial Parkland shooting jury trial outcome resulting in a life sentence.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down a Berkeley climate change law banning natural gas lines in new buildings.

In 2019, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 51 by then-Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) as Chapter 711. The bill added Government Code