Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she is baffled by the controversy surrounding some justices’ reference to foreign law in their U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
A long-running case testing whether multinational companies should be held liable for human rights abuses under South Africa’s apartheid regime gained momentum Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin of Manhattan…
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled in a novel case that a sperm bank may be sued under product liability laws for failing to detect that a sperm donor…
In Barack Obama’s 2004 speech to the Democratic National Convention, the junior Illinois senator offered a vision of community and service that fascinated the Duke law professor who heard it.
After a summer in which gun violence in Chicago claimed more American lives last year than the war in Iraq, the National Rifle Association has gained an unlikely ally in…
A major international bank has filed an unusual federal civil racketeering lawsuit in Seattle against a mortgage broker, an escrow agent–and 10 couples.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to grant cert in a case challenging mutual fund fees highlights “judicial fisticuffs” between two law-and-economics judges, Frank Easterbrook and…
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey delayed a report last fall by the Justice Department’s ethics unit that criticizes three lawyers who wrote the so-called torture memos approving harsh interrogation tactics…
In a rare real-life, high-stakes demonstration of the prisoner’s dilemma—two suspects can both escape consequences, but only by trusting each other not to snitch to authorities—a judge in Malaysia has…
There are two kinds of U.S. Supreme Court justices who are less likely to retire: those who have power, and those who don’t have it but retain a strong sense…
A U.S. attorney is applying a criminal statute in a novel way as part of a grand jury investigation into the Los Angeles archdiocese and its response to pedophile priests,…
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