'Threat to society': SC says acid-attackers must face attempt to murder charges; PIL seeks recognition under disability law

The Supreme Court has ruled that acid-attackers who force victims to ingest acid must face charges of attempt to murder, not ...

Addressing South Africa's teenage pregnancy crisis: A call for urgent action

South Africa's alarming rise in teenage pregnancy has sparked urgent scrutiny of protective systems, as the Commission for Gender Equality calls for immediate, coordinated action to address this ...

Supreme Court Grapples With Death Penalty Case on Intellectual Disability

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results ...
Education Week

Supreme Court Weighs IQ Tests and Other School Records in Key Death Penalty Case

Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied ...
GBH

‘Much, much better’: Disabled MBTA riders see a new T 20 years after suing for change

Plaintiffs took the Boston-area transit authority to court decades ago. Now, the MBTA has met nearly all of the settlement’s ...

MBTA has nearly met accessibility upgrades required in historic settlement: Here’s what’s different than when the T was sued

After 20 years of upgrades following the Daniels-Finegold settlement, the T has added 105 elevators and drastically reduced ...