The House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would allow families of workers killed or injured in the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion to sue for non-economic damages. The SPILL Act amends a decades-old act to extend to all companies operating on the high seas. Hailed by plaintiffs lawyers, the House vote was a blow to the U.S

The American Bar Association sent a letter to the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and Department of Defense on Monday expressing its “strong support” for ending the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. “Subjecting a person to discharge from military service on the basis of sexual orientation is, and always has been, a denial of the very constitutional protections that the oath administered to military members calls upon servicemembers to protect,” wrote ABA President Carolyn Lamm.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to adopt four articles of impeachment against Eastern District of Louisiana Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr., wrapping up a wide-ranging investigation into allegations that Porteous took cash and gifts from lawyers and lied in his own bankruptcy case

The House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously on Wednesday to adopt two articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr., accusing the judge of misconduct over three decades

The House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday on the outsize effect the U.S.