Erika Williams

A Virginia sheriff’s deputy unconstitutionally arrested a Black motorist for refusing to give his name after pulling over to check on engine problems, a trio of Fourth Circuit judges ruled Thursday.

South Carolina’s Supreme Court found the requirement that sex offenders must register for life without any opportunity for judicial review violates due process.

Reversing Trump-era policies, Biden signed bills on rural veteran health, lending and methane restrictions.

Several FBI employees were found to have ignored agency policy by speaking to reporters before the 2016 election, but the Justice Department’s inspector general couldn’t determine whether anyone in the bureau leaked information about the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

Increasing the urban population needed to qualify as a metropolitan area from 50,000 to 100,000 will deprive nearly 150 communities of needed funding, a bipartisan group of lawmakers say.

Fourth Circuit hears arguments over Virginia’s sex offender registry  Courthouse News Service

North Carolina voters will cast their ballots on May 17 in statewide primary elections that could decide the fate of several nationally-watched political races.

A three-judge panel appeared skeptical of claims that law firms cannot use driver’s license information in police accident reports to advertise legal services.

A three-judge panel heard arguments over a North Carolina coastal county’s emergency declaration that temporarily blocked all nonresidents from entering the county at the height of the pandemic.

The Virginia officer argues he was justified in ordering his police dog to attack a suicidal man because he was worried the man was armed.