Legal History
- Sotomayor takes SCOTUS chief justice seat to re-enact famous baseball case
May 24, 2013, 03:46 pm CDT
- Did convicted ‘Cold Blood’ murderers in Capote novel also kill a Florida family?
May 17, 2013, 02:44 pm CDT
- Lessons for liberals can be found in story of Federalist Society influence, says book review
May 15, 2013, 06:25 am CDT
- Ginsburg: Court should have avoided broad-based decision in Roe v. Wade
May 13, 2013, 09:20 am CDT
- Are digitization and budget cuts compromising history?
May 1, 2013, 05:30 am CDT
- New video series looks behind the scenes of innovation at inspiring inventors
May 1, 2013, 04:20 am CDT
- LGBT lawyers join high court bar
May 1, 2013, 02:10 am CDT
- May 6, 1882: Congress passes first major law restricting immigration
May 1, 2013, 12:40 am CDT
- Pulitzer awarded for book on largely forgotten case defended by Thurgood Marshall
Apr 26, 2013, 06:00 am CDT
- Leon Jaworski’s name is the first to go as his firm grows
Apr 1, 2013, 04:00 am CDT
- Trial of Socrates still raises questions about the relationship between citizens and their states
Apr 1, 2013, 03:10 am CDT
- What judges really think about the phrase ‘May it please the Court?’
Apr 1, 2013, 02:58 am CDT
- April 3, 1996: The Unabomber is apprehended
Apr 1, 2013, 12:00 am CDT
- Legal journalist dies near 50th anniversary of the case he chronicled in ‘Gideon’s Trumpet’
Mar 25, 2013, 11:41 am CDT
- Photo gallery commemorates 50th anniversary of closing of Alcatraz, once nation’s most secure prison
Mar 21, 2013, 09:00 am CDT
- Who died at boys reform school over last century, and how? State AG asks judge to OK exhumation
Mar 13, 2013, 11:15 am CDT
- Couple visits all 254 Texas courthouses in 14,500-mile odyssey, ties knot Monday in Ellis County
Mar 11, 2013, 05:47 pm CDT
- Want to protect individual freedom? Have a strong central government, says ‘Rule of the Clan’ author
Mar 11, 2013, 08:45 am CDT
- Joseph Kelner, attorney who sued sitting Ohio governor over Kent State slayings, is dead at 98
Mar 8, 2013, 02:55 pm CDT
- Looking for SCOTUS controversy? Case revelations? O’Connor book sticks to facts of court history
Mar 6, 2013, 07:15 am CDT
- Larry Flynt’s lawyer and others recall March ‘78 shooting near courthouse
Mar 5, 2013, 11:21 am CDT
- Fifty years after Gideon, lawyers still struggle to provide counsel to the indigent
Mar 1, 2013, 06:10 am CDT
- The ‘Obvious Truth’: Gideon asserts only a lawyer’s advocacy can ensure a defendant a fair trial
Mar 1, 2013, 05:40 am CDT
- March 25, 1931: The saga of the Scottsboro Boys begins
Mar 1, 2013, 01:30 am CDT
- Bork’s posthumous book tells of Nixon’s promise after Saturday Night Massacre
Feb 27, 2013, 08:58 am CDT
- ‘A kind of Apple Store for legal stuff’ opens; Richard III’s legal legacy
Feb 8, 2013, 09:29 am CDT
- Socrates retrial: Did he have to drink the hemlock?
Feb 1, 2013, 09:59 am CDT
- Letters: The history of labor strife
Feb 1, 2013, 05:50 am CDT
- Feb. 22, 1841: Amistad case opens in Supreme Court
Feb 1, 2013, 01:40 am CDT
- Should a judge recuse due to Facebook friendship with prosecutor? Florida supremes asked to decide
Jan 17, 2013, 08:13 am CDT
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