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Reed Smith has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of two nationwide business organizations and several high-profile companies, which argue that state restrictions on reproductive rights are having a negative impact on businesses and the economy.

A pro bono team led by Patrick Yingling and Zack Roman has achieved another important win affirming the rights of transgender individuals to change their names, Reed Smith announced.

The law bans legal name changes for people convicted of certain felonies and delays them for others.

This morning, in response to the third set of state legislative maps approved on party lines by the Ohio Redistricting Commission, the petitioners in Ohio

An Allegheny County Common Pleas judge on Wednesday said that a Pennsylvania law barring people with felony convictions from legally changing their names is unconstitutional. Judge Christine Ward then granted name change petitions to two transgender women with prior felony convictions. Chauntey Mo’Nique Porter and Priscylla Renee Von Noaker testified

Organizations are preparing their arguments against legislative redistricting maps for an Ohio Supreme Court hearing Wednesday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The shape of Ohio’s state government for the next decade will be in the balance Wednesday as the Ohio Supreme Court hears arguments on new legislative

The shape of Ohio's state government for the next decade will be in the balance Wednesday as the Ohio Supreme Court hears arguments on new legislative maps that voter-rights and Democratic groups say are gerrymandered to favor Republicans.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The shape of Ohio’s state government for the next decade will be in the balance Wednesday as the Ohio Supreme Court hears arguments on new legislative maps

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The shape of Ohio’s state government for the next decade will be in the balance Wednesday as the Ohio Supreme Court hears