An African-American judge says campus police at the University of California at Los Angeles used excessive force after they pulled him over Saturday morning for failing to wear a seat…
A grand jury in Ohio has indicted the Steubenville schools superintendent on charges of obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence in the investigation of the rape of a 16-year-old…
After a jury deadlocked 11-1 for conviction, a California judge on Thursday declared a mistrial in the case of a lawyer accused of helping his wife (also a graduate of…
The parents of a young woman who died in a one-car crash soon after earning a bachelor’s degree last year have sued the University of California at Berkeley over the…
Overturning a jury verdict that originally awarded $4 million each to two families of victims slain in the April 16, 2007 shooting massacre at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,…
A judge has denied a motion for class certification by a group of Thomas Jefferson School of Law graduates who claimed they were tricked into attending the school by misleading…
The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar hasn’t received much in the way of a response to its latest proposed changes in the law school accreditation…
In a case that pits First Amendment rights of young Americans to display pride in their country against the power of high school administrators to take reasonable measures to promote…
The fate of Michigan’s voter referendum banning affirmative action likely depends on Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who sought to distinguish cases cited by a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties…
An ABA committee has decided to ask the governing council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar to press for the universal release to law schools…
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