Things changed after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1981 decision in Chandler v. Florida gave approval to cameras in the courtrooms. Now all 50 states have some variation on when, where and how cameras can be used. Federal courts continue to resist the technology, thus still providing work for courtroom sketch artists.
Jun 1, 2017 5:00 AM CDT
In 1964, the Dallas courtroom where Jack Ruby stood trial for killing President John F. Kennedy’s alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Jack Ruby (sitting), his defense attorneys Melvin Belli (standing) and Joe Tonahill (sitting). Judge Joe Brown presides. Illustration by Howard Brodie
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The blog is not a slog. Even as more people express themselves online in fleeting notes and images, law bloggers enjoy their more reflective discipline.
Dec 1, 2016 5:10 AM CST
See this year’s list of 100 blawgs, read about our survey of law bloggers and check out the latest additions to our Blawg 100 Hall of Fame.
Dec 1, 2016 12:00 AM CST
Dennis Muñoz grew up in a conservative El Salvadorian family, and while the birth of his daughter inspired him to become an attorney, he never anticipated that he’d become known…
Sep 13, 2016 3:31 PM CDT
While there can be legitimate reasons for moving funds abroad to shell corporations, wealthy clients of the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca wanted to know, as one put it in…
Jun 7, 2016 10:50 AM CDT
As the most successful band in history, the Beatles generated not only a record number of music hits but probably more legal disputes than any other music group before or…
May 1, 2016 12:10 AM CDT
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon made their live television debut in the U.S. on The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964. Photograph by CBS via Getty Images.
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An El Salvador man who says he spent more than a year adrift at sea on a Mexican fishing boat before washing up on the Marshall Islands, over 6,000 miles…
Jan 9, 2015 11:15 AM CST
Littler Mendelson has combined with law firms in Colombia and Costa Rica as part of its push to expand into Latin America.
Littler is combining with Colombian law firm Godoy…
Oct 1, 2013 2:20 PM CDT
The head of one of the two most powerful drug cartels in Mexico has been captured in the countryside outside Nuevo Laredo, along with a bodyguard and an accountant, authorities…
Jul 16, 2013 5:35 PM CDT
The American Bar Association and the Inter-American Bar Association have agreed to work together on issues involving human trafficking, the globalization of the legal profession and funding for judicial systems…
Jun 21, 2013 8:49 PM CDT
Jones Day has opened a new office in Miami, its first in Florida, in a move that is expected to expand its Latin American practice.
Bankruptcy partner Pedro A. Jimenez,…
May 9, 2013 4:05 PM CDT
A tech millionaire whose whereabouts haven’t been made public since police in Belize sought to question him about a neighbor’s body found near his waterfront home last month is now…
Dec 5, 2012 10:10 PM CST
Apple has reportedly lost a trademark appeal in Mexico after contesting a telecom’s right to use the name iFone.
The appeals court found iFone is the only company that can…
Nov 5, 2012 4:21 PM CST
The human rights chief of the United Nations on Wednesday called for Honduras to take urgent and aggressive action to deal with what she called “chronic insecurity” facing lawyers and…
Sep 26, 2012 10:29 PM CDT
Antonio Trejo Cabrera, a human rights lawyer who represented agrarian groups against large landowners in Honduras, was killed Sunday while attending a wedding in the nation’s capital city Tegucigalpa.
Cabrera,…
Sep 24, 2012 12:07 PM CDT