The U.S. Supreme Court is declining to decide whether police and social workers must get a warrant before interviewing a child at school about alleged sexual abuse.
A law student and Iraq war veteran at the University of California-Davis is reportedly a suspect in two on-campus sexual assaults last night near a bicycle path that led university…
The New Jersey Supreme Court in a 3-2 ruling has ordered the state schools to spend additional money on public education in poor school districts, an amount estimated to be…
Washington D.C.’s Sidwell Friends School, whose students include Sasha and Malia Obama, is being sued by a parent, who alleges that a former staff psychologist there had an affair with…
It’s been 46 years since lawyer Marion Overton White filed a desegregation suit against the St. Landry Parish School Board, and now he’s submitted his bill. White is seeking nearly…
An unidentified former student at a suburban Chicago high school has been charged with disorderly conduct after allegedly posting online and distributing at Oak Park-River Forest High School earlier this…
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth is making no secret of his displeasure over Washington, D.C.’s admission before trial that it had failed to turn over relevant emails in discovery.
In a letter to the National College Athletic Association made public today, the U.S. Department of Justice announces that it is considering an antitrust probe…
Updated: Less than half of America’s eighth graders know the purpose of the Bill of Rights, and only one in 10 show knowledge about checks and balances, according to test…
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a Texas cheerleader kicked off the squad because she wouldn’t cheer for an athlete she had accused of rape.
You can probably name all 9 Supreme Court justices. But most people can't even name one. How can we change this for the younger generation? ABA Podcast moderator Stephanie Francis Ward spoke with educators and experts about why civics ed matters in a constitutional democracy and how some young folks are already putting their lessons into action.
Nobody is more concerned about the future of the legal profession and the value of a legal education than the ABA, association President Stephen N. Zack said Wednesday.
A grand jury in Middlesex County, N.J., has issued new charges against an 18-year-old former Rutgers University freshman who is accused of driving his roommate to suicide by secretly recording…
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