Despite its opposition to making marijuana use legal, the Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit...
Articles by Sam Hananel
It’s not easy to prevent the Supreme Court from deciding an issue once the justices have agreed to hear a...
The Supreme Court ruled this week that a Georgia police officer could not be sued in Nevada over the seizure...

The federal government awards billions of dollars in contracts each year to companies that routinely violate safety, health and wage...
It’s sometimes called highway hypnosis or white-line fever, and it’s familiar to anyone who has driven long distances along a...
The engineer driving the speeding commuter train that derailed in New York City last weekend, killing four people, has been...
Federal regulators are proposing a long-awaited rule that would dramatically limit workplace exposure to silica dust. Officials at the Occupational...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed lawsuits this week against discount retailer Dollar General Corp. and a BMW manufacturing plant...

Margaret Fiester is no shrinking violet, but she says working for her former boss was a nightmare. “One day I...
It started with allegations of hangman’s nooses, graffiti and racist comments targeting a handful of black workers at a trucking...