Courts & Law

Gov. Tom Wolf plans to sign two reform measures, including one that would create a confidential police misconduct database.

Recent civil unrest has pressured state and city lawmakers to pass police reform bills that had been previously ignored. But these new measures only go so far.

The Supreme Court has upheld a prosecutor’s demand for President Donald Trump’s tax returns as part of a criminal investigation into hush-money payments.

The transcripts from cameras worn by ex-officers Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng were filed in Minnesota state court as part of a motion to dismiss charges against Lane.

Pregnancy prevention is just one reason birth control is used. The ACA included the mandate after a women’s health panel deemed providing it essential.

In Pennsylvania, convictions for felony-murder are automatically punished with life in prison, without the possibility of parole.

Pressure is mounting on Gov. Tom Wolf to extend his moratorium on evictions as advocates fear the relief effort is coming too late.

Leaders in the Christina School District presented a defense of their school resource officers before the board of education approved funding for them.

Del.’s AG said it served “no good purpose” to prosecute 22 protesters arrested last month. The state’s largest police unions say they’re “under attack.”

The waiver applies to any code violation notices given out in the last month, including for all forms of disorderly conduct as well as failure to disperse.

They made it more difficult for women to get access to birth control as part of their health plans if their employer has a religious or moral objection to contraceptives.

In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs argue that because churches and retailers have been allowed to open in the state, the movie theaters should be permitted to reopen as well.

“You’re basically taking away money from the landlord,” argued Paul Cohen, an attorney for The Homeowners Association of Philadelphia.

As police continue to stop and frisk Black Americans at higher rates than whites in the city, Black groups renewed demands that Mayor Kenney end the law enforcement tactic.

Del. police have shot 56 people since 2005, but no officer has ever been charged with a crime — even when prosecutors wanted to. Now, change could be coming.