Welcome to Gavel Drop, our roundup of legal news, headlines, and head-shaking moments in the courts.

Mormon-run Brigham Young University responds to students who report on-campus sexual assault by investigating or suspending assaulted students for honor code violations.

Assisted reproductive technologies continue to push the boundaries of conception and parenting. And we’re used to thinking about frozen eggs or embryos. But what about a man’s sperm after he is dead?

When updating its divorce laws, Mississippi decided domestic abuse was not legal reason enough to justify the state granting a divorce.

Plenty of colleges and universities get exemptions that allow them to discriminate against students and faculty on the grounds of religious freedom. Why won’t the National Collegiate Athletic Association do anything to stop this practice?

A former Missouri State University student has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the school discriminated against his religious beliefs when it kicked him out of its counseling program because he wouldn’t provide services to gay couples.

David Daleiden was back in a Houston court, trying to quash the indictments against him. He claims that prosecutors are colluding with Planned Parenthood against him. Sure they are, David. Sure they are.

A homeless man who tried to apply for a job at a Wichita, Kansas, abortion clinic while carrying a homemade incendiary device pleaded guilty to explosives charges.