About 175 cases filed by Guantanamo detainees seeking a review of their enemy combatant designations won’t get a federal appeals court hearing under a decision today by the U.S. Court…
A federal appeals court has struck down a 2006 federal law providing for indefinite civil commitment of sexually dangerous inmates after their prison terms end.
The U.S. Supreme Court could decide as early as today whether to hold a hearing on an appeal that contends a section of the Voting Rights Act renewed two years…
Corrected: As March oral arguments near in a much-watched U.S. Supreme Court case about the circumstances under which a judicial campaign contribution should require a jurist’s recusal, a substantial number…
A federal appeals court opinion ordering a new sentence for former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling gives his lawyers another chance to argue for a new trial.
In what is believed to be a unique judicial disciplinary case, a Florida appeals court judge was publicly reprimanded by the state supreme court today for attacking a fellow appellate…
In an about-face, California Attorney General Jerry Brown is asking the state supreme court to overturn a voter-approved constitutional amendment that bans gay marriage in the state.
Updated: A former administrative law judge who claims a dry cleaners lost his pants now faces another loss: the appeal of his $54 million lawsuit against the establishment.
Judges on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared testy this week as they considered a colleague’s refusal to order a new trial because of a witness’s…
Apparently stung by a Florida judge’s finding Monday that his client deserves a new murder trial because of ineffective assistance of counsel, a Tampa lawyer has fired back at the…
A federal appeals court has refused to order the recusal of U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner based on the defendant’s claims she displayed a “deep-seated favoritism and antagonism.”
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