Many Supreme Court cases are a sequel.

Continue >

Interested parties will hold their breath (pun intended) as the Court contemplates a trio of drunk driving cases

Continue >

Each day, four to eight children die from abuse or neglect, usually at the hands of their parents. More than half are infants younger than 1 year old, and approximately three-quarters are under 3 years of ag

Continue >

In this month’s issue of State Legislatures magazine, NCSL’s Anne Teigen reports  that about 1 million impaired drivers are convicted annually in the U.S.

Continue >

Abuse and overdose of prescription opioids has reached new levels over the past decade or so, now claiming more than 40 lives each day on average. With consequences for individuals, communities and states, leaders are grasping for solutions to curtail the growing problem.

Continue >

In a per curiam (unauthored) opinion, which concurring Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas call “grudging,” the Supreme Court has ordered the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts to decide again whether Massachusetts’s stun gun ban is constitutional.

Continue >

Virginia legislators recently passed changes to the state’s ethics laws that alter existing gift, lobbying and disclosure laws.

Continue >

People with disabilities experience substantially different employment outcomes than the general population of the United States.

Continue >

The NCSL Legislative Summit is the biggest and best gathering of state legislators and staff in the country. Registration is now open for the 2016 Summit, Aug. 8-11 in Chicago.

Continue >

While a more common phrase in the fashion, design or music industry, the U.S. Department Transportation (DOT) decided to get in on the act when, on March 8, it released guidance for states on how to repurpose nearly $2 billion in previously appropriated earmark funds.

Continue >