Michael Boudin, a jurist who came of age amid the ferment of left-wing activism as the son of a towering civil liberties lawyer and the brother of a Weather Underground radical, but who forged his own ...

The U.S. appeals court in Boston ruled Thursday that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, claiming that it unfairly denies equal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. The ...

In rejecting two race-conscious school assignment plans, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to those school districts, but also to two prominent conservative jurists who had invited the high court to take ...

Yesterday saw a major legal blow (perhaps the most significant one yet) to the Defense of Marriage Act, as the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the federal government’s definition ...