Courts & Law

In a new opinion, justices say several people — not dioceses themselves — are challenging release of the report on constitutional grounds.

The nation's top border enforcement official acknowledged they have abandoned their effort to prosecute immigrant families who cross the southern border.

A long-awaited study suggests changes in how the death penalty works in Pennsylvania, including a subcommittee's recommendation to improve legal defense in capital cases.

Family members of Sgt. Robert Wilson III were told late Friday about the plea deal for brothers Carlton Hipps and Ramone Williams that offered life plus 50 to 100 years.

Mary Catherine Roper of the ACLU of Pennsylvania gives the new policy a B-minus.

To gain their release from custody and last night's reunion, the woman sued the U.S. government.

In a major win for privacy rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that police must obtain a search warrant in order to get access to cellphone location information.

Aside from Pennsylvania, nine other states are involved, and more may join.

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn, talks with journalists Max Marin and Ryan Briggs about how sexual harassment in city government has gone unreported and unrecorded.

New Jersey authorities announced Wednesday criminal charges against four more people for allegedly filing fraudulent federal Superstorm Sandy relief fund applications.

Pennsylvania's highest court is holding up the public release of a grand jury report expected to reveal details of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania.

The first member of the MOVE Nine imprisoned for the third-degree murder of a Philadelphia police officer in 1978 is released from prison.

State Rep. Mark Rozzi, D-Berks, is pushing to end the statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases and give victims abused long ago another chance to file a claim.

June 19 marks Juneteenth, a celebration of the de facto end of slavery in the United States.

Mill and his lawyers are asking for a new trial on a 2008 conviction on drug and gun charges.