A federal appeals court ruled that California's law requiring gun owners to undergo background checks to purchase ammunition violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a constitutional challenge by parents in Washington state to laws addressing the rights of transgender runaway children who seek gender-affirming care at shelters.

A federal appeals court says a California law requiring background checks to buy bullets is unconstitutional. Voters passed the law in 2016 and it took effect in 2019.

The law violates the Second Amendment, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision.

A federal appeals court on Friday struck down 2023 regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on funding a comprehensive market surveillance system, finding that Wall Street's top regulator had not provided a sufficient basis for allowing stock exchanges to pass on its costs to their members,