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New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday that she has filed a lawsuit to dissolve the National Rifle Association, alleging abuse of its non-profit status and violations of tax law.

Several advocacy groups have sued the Boston police and school departments to find how much information they share with federal immigration officials. Lawyers for Civil Rights, the Center for Law and Education, and Multicultural Education, Training, and Advocacy filed suit in Suffolk Superior Court on Thursday for details on how police and schools share student information with U.S. Immigration...

Whole Foods employees in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and two other states have filed a class action discrimination lawsuit against the grocery chain for disciplining workers who wore Black Lives Matter masks during their shift. The suit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Boston, seeks a preliminary injunction prohibiting further retaliation against employees choosing to wear the masks at...

The family of a soldier who died in the major coronavirus outbreak at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home is suing five officials who worked at the Massachusetts facility in federal court for alleged “deliberate indifference” in dealing with the spreading virus. Seventy-six veterans living at the home who tested positive for the virus have died since the beginning of March, sparking several…

A federal judge has denied Netflix’s second motion to dismiss a race and gender discrimination lawsuit from comedian Mo’Nique, who alleges in the suit that the $500,000 the streaming service offered her in 2017 for a standup special “wreaked of discrimination” and “perpetuated the pay gap suffered by Black women” and that her business dealings with Netflix “ended with a...

Attorneys for George Floyd’s family have filed a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and the four police officers charged in his death

Body-camera footage made public Wednesday from two Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest captured a panicked and fearful Floyd pleading with the officers in the minutes before his death, saying “I’m not a bad guy!” as they tried to wrestle him into a squad car.

Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the coronavirus pandemic. The decision was announced at the start of a hearing in a federal lawsuit in Boston brought by…

Massachusetts will become the second state ever to pursue legal action against ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft over their classification of workers, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Tuesday. Healey filed a lawsuit against the two companies alleging that, by categorizing their nearly 200,000 Massachusetts drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, Uber and Lyft are violating the state’s wage and…

The attorney generals for Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont have joined their counterparts in 14 other states in filing a lawsuit seeking an injunction over the Trump administration’s new visa rule for international students. Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin are also part of the…

Singer Anita White says a lawsuit filed against her by a country group over the use of the name Lady A is an example of white privilege being used against her.

A federal hearing which asks for a temporary restraining order to keep Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from barring international students living in the country from being deported had been put off until Friday. Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Northeastern and Georgetown University are all a part of the lawsuit that is pushing back against...

More of the nation’s top colleges are joining forces to sue the federal government over its plan from having immigration officials force international students out of the country.

The Duchess of Sussex has asked a British court to prevent a newspaper from publishing the names of five friends who defended her while speaking to an American magazine under the shield of anonymity

Northeastern University announced Wednesday afternoon that it would join Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in filing a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over new rules barring international students from living in the country while taking online courses. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, asks...

More information continues to be revealed about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s departure from royal life. According to PEOPLE magazine, a source close to the couple admitted the Duchess was left frustrated with how Kensington Palace addressed the false tabloid reports published about her.

Roc Nation’s philanthropy arm, Team Roc, filed a lawsuit against the Mississippi Department of Corrections earlier this year on behalf of over 150 inmates in the state’s Parchman prison in response to conditions described as “barbaric.” Attorney Jessica Rice, who is working with Team Roc, explains why this case is important in Mississippi and details the long history of...

Johnny Depp’s lawyers have failed to stop the American actor’s ex-wife, Amber Heard, from attending his libel trial against a British tabloid newspaper until she is called to give evidence.

A British judge has rejected an attempt by tabloid newspaper The Sun to quash a libel suit brought by actor Johnny Depp over an article claiming he abused his ex-wife.

New court documents from Meghan Markle’s ongoing lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday reveal the Duchess of Sussex felt “unprotected” by the Royal Family.