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A U.S. Supreme Court case that began in Idaho has weakened protections across the nation under the Clean Water Act.

The Clean Water Act regulates discharges of pollutants into "waters of the United States."

The ruling issued Thursday erodes the rule that would have brought all of the nation's streams and wetlands under the authority of the EPA.

Most of the nation's attorneys general have joined to sue a telecommunications company and its owners.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week effectively dismissed a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Republican attorneys general.

Incubator links attorneys with people in rural Montana who need their services the most but who may not be able to afford them.

(Colorado Newsline) America's major medical institutions and drug policy scholars have roundly denounced as "pseudoscience" many of the claims brought by anti-abortion groups in a high-profile federal lawsuit asking the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its 23-year-old approval of mifepristone, one half of a two-drug regimen that has become the most common form of pregnancy termination post-Roe v. Wade.

The Supreme Court provided wins to a pair of California-based tech companies Thursday.

A conservative advocacy group is suing the state over a ballot measure.

(Colorado Newsline) A federal appeals court panel quizzed lawyers during oral arguments Wednesday over a Texas judge's decision that could end access to the abortion pill nationwide.

Observers see the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals as a legal way station for the case, in which anti-abortion groups sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, arguing its approval of mifepristone in 2000 was improper and subsequent changes to its use didn't rely on solid science.