BI analyzed nearly 1,500 cases to obtain data on prisoner litigation. We found that constitutional protections have been ...

Dissent in Indian and U.S. judiciaries varies from political to social to intellectual disagreements, shaping legal ...

Roughly three-quarters of civil suits filed in the United States settle, and nearly half of nonprisoner civil-rights suits do. In BI's sample of Eighth Amendment cases, just 14% settled.

Federal courts have rarely upheld claims of medical neglect in US prisons, even when healthcare providers failed to diagnose ...

Greenville Democratic leader advocates for President Biden to act to make Equal Rights Amendment part of the Constitution to ...

The text of the Eighth ... Amendment if it were “a figure higher than is reasonably calculated” to ensure the defendant’s appearance at trial. Stack v. Boyle (1951); see also United States ...

A few attorneys general — from red and blue states alike — took their case ... and unusual punishments" in violation of the Eighth Amendment, including every appeals court case we could ...

She wants to convince him that he can rescue his legacy by adding the century-old Equal Rights Amendment, which would explicitly guarantee sex equality, to the Constitution as a way to protect ...