The Civil Rights Division on Tuesday, September 30th filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department due ...

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — University of Virginia strikes deal with Justice Department to pause civil rights ...

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Prof. William Jacobson, law, is preparing to file a civil rights complaint seeking a federal investigation into Cornell, ...

Days after announcing an investigation into the hiring practices at George Mason University (GMU), the U.S. Department of Justice announced a second civil rights investigation into the Northern ...

Federal officials have sued two pro-Palestinian groups and some demonstrators involved in a heated protest last year outside a synagogue in northern New Jersey, citing a law traditionally used to ...

The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to ...

The Justice Department sued California Secretary of State Shirley Weber for failing to hand over the state's voter rolls.

In April, the U.S. Department of Education used a landmark law intended, in part, to end racial discrimination to investigate Chicago Public Schools over a "Black Students Success Plan," after a ...

The Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month.