For most lawyers, the U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia is a familiar one. The 1967 decision struck down Virginia’s antimiscegenation statute, which prohibited and criminalized interracial marriage. Now…
The public will soon have a chance again to view a 715-year-old copy of Magna Carta at the National Archives following a conservation effort to remove old patches and repair…
In rare public testimony yesterday in a Manhattan courtroom, a New York probate judge facing a legal ethics case defended his own conduct concerning an attorney who is accused of…
For at least the second time in less than two months, a family who thought a young man might have been murdered by a notorious serial killer decades ago got…
Lawyers for Sirhan Sirhan, who is serving time for the 1968 slaying of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, have filed court papers in Los Angeles challenging his conviction.
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