The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue the three final rulings of the term today, including a decision on whether the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own…
A growing weight of support for federal legislation that seeks to curtail a controversial Justice Department practice of requiring corporations to waive attorney-client privilege has reportedly persuaded backers that it…
Asked by Congressional lawyers yesterday to require the White House to comply with House Judiciary Committee subpoenas of two high-level aides, Federal District Court Judge John Bates was a reluctant…
The U.S. Supreme Court has twice ruled against Tennessee death-row inmate Gary Cone. Now the justices will decide whether federal courts may consider his claim that the prosecution withheld exculpatory…
Adding, for the first time, insider Justice Department protests to a growing weight of concern about the McNulty memo, a bipartisan group of 32 former U.S. attorneys has sent a…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s public relations strategy to change tort law had its genesis in a meeting held at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher around nine years ago.
Lawmakers have reached agreement on a new wiretap law that allows the government to obtain broad warrants to eavesdrop on foreign communications and gives telecoms immunity for aiding the government’s…
For months, a Kansas grand jury, impaneled by citizen petition, has been investigating whether an abortion provider performed illegal late-term abortions.
So far, anti-abortion activists in the state have not…
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