In North Carolina, statistics don’t just tell a story; they can let a death row inmate challenge his conviction. A 2009 state statute allows death row inmates to claim that…
May 1, 2011 8:00 AM CDT
Ken Rose: “[We could] go from being a leader in the area of racial justice to a state that wants to continue to hide from the truth.” Photo by Scott Levoyer
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Witold Walczak of the Pennsylvania ACLU with MaryJo Miller, who filed suit against the Wyoming County DA after he threatened to prosecute her daughter and two other teens. Photo by AP Photo/Matt Rourke
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Following widespread news coverage about a Florida judge who was ordered out of her sister’s home on Easter Sunday and briefly held with the rest of the family at gunpoint…
Apr 29, 2011 8:49 PM CDT
Several lawsuits are challenging corporate policies that bar the hiring of people with criminal backgrounds, with varying results.
The suits follow an increase in criminal background checks, made possible by…
Apr 29, 2011 2:02 PM CDT
In 1961, astronomer Frank Kemeny wasn’t able to get legal support from the American Civil Liberties Union when he was fired from his federal job for being gay. At the…
Apr 29, 2011 12:12 PM CDT
A federal judge in Tennessee has ordered attorneys involved in a sex-trafficking case not to listen to recordings of almost 300 phone calls between Bell Tennent & Frogge and the…
Apr 28, 2011 6:01 PM CDT
Sent to the wrong address on Easter Sunday concerning a reported burglary in progress, officers from the Broward County sheriff’s department held a Florida judge briefly at gunpoint, along with…
Apr 27, 2011 4:22 PM CDT
A 66-year-old partner in one of Canada’s biggest corporate law firms is fighting a policy that ordinarily would have forced him to retire at 65.
Mitch McCormick won a key…
Apr 27, 2011 12:08 AM CDT
A Washington state court judge had a number of possible options for attempting to keep a boisterous defendant quiet during his upcoming murder trial.
Among the possibilities were a therapy…
Apr 25, 2011 7:29 PM CDT
Responding to complaints made by an attorney on behalf of a Harvard Law School student, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is investigating whether the HLS policy…
Apr 21, 2011 9:34 PM CDT
An appellate court is poised potentially to make California the first state in the nation to require prisons to provide sex-change surgery for at least some inmates who seek the…
Apr 19, 2011 11:55 PM CDT
A San Antonio-area prosecutor believes a full-page newspaper ad taken out by two defense lawyers is misleading because it doesn’t communicate that there are consequences if suspects refuse blood-alcohol testing.
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Apr 15, 2011 1:43 PM CDT
A Canadian law criminalizing polygamy is not unlike the country’s stance on homosexuality, which was decriminalized in 1969, a lawyer for members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of…
Apr 14, 2011 7:28 PM CDT
The creators and five cast members of The Wire—a TV series about police officers and inner-city drug dealers in Baltimore—participated in a panel discussion at Harvard Law School on Tuesday…
Apr 14, 2011 2:09 PM CDT