The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday pondered what kind of rule should apply when a suspect who invokes his Miranda right to a lawyer is questioned again two years and…
As the U.S. Supreme Court opened its term Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor lived up to her reputation as a frequent questioner in oral arguments, outpacing her fellow New Yorker, Justice…
A Louisiana death row inmate who claims she shouldn’t be executed because she suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome is one of several litigants whose cases were denied review today by…
A federal appeals court has stayed the execution of an Ohio inmate until a federal appeals court can hear arguments over the state’s lethal injection process.
In a rare moment of candor about the current U.S. Supreme Court, retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said this weekend that she has been disappointed to see some of her…
After initial protests over the what some see as the unfairness of the arrest last week of fugitive film director Roman Polanski in a decades-old California…
A stunning April jury verdict of almost $390 million against Microsoft Corp. in a patent infringement case brought by an anti-piracy software maker has been overturned by a federal judge.
The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term Monday with a docket that includes two kinds of videos (one opposing Hillary Clinton and another featuring dogfights), a cross in the…
In a ruling that a CBS spokesman called “a total victory,” a New York appeals court today reversed a trial judge and said former network anchorman Dan Rather’s breach of…
Court filings by lawyers representing Roman Polanski apparently gave piqued prosecutors the incentive to seek his arrest, according to a published report.
The head of the U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice group in the Washington, D.C., office of Baker Botts has announced that he is leaving the firm to form a…
A lawyer representing himself in a dispute with his landlord has no First Amendment right to wear jeans and a baseball cap in court, a federal judge has ruled.
A federal appeals court has cited the First Amendment in a decision that overturns a $5 million judgment against members of an anti-gay church who protested at a soldier’s Maryland…
Massachusetts’ highest court is keeping a former lawyer behind bars for at least another 30 days so a lawyer who listened to his recorded jailhouse conversations to find missing money…
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