A federal judge who has held the state of Texas in contempt of court three times for failing to fix the state’s foster care system was removed from the case by the Fifth Circuit Friday in a major win for Gov. Greg Abbott (R).

Out-of-state applicants will be able to take the California bar exam remotely and at test centers in other states, according to a proposal the state bar approved Friday.

Alabama was denied an emergency stay Friday of a recent injunction halting some of the state’s new restrictions on how absentee ballot application assistance may be provided.

Officials with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Tribal Council were improperly granted immunity from a suit from the Muscogee (Creek) Nation challenging a casino built upon a burial site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

Four more disparate companies have been hit with proposed class actions accusing them of inadequate cybersecurity linked to debt-collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions Inc.'s February data breach exposing more than four million people’s personal information.

Environmental groups on Friday won their bid to put on hold federal and state authorizations for a natural gas project in Tennessee after the Sixth Circuit said irreparable harm could occur otherwise.