A coalition of over 40 state attorneys general urged Congress on Tuesday to place labels on social media platforms warning of their potential risks to children, rallying substantial bipartisan support behind a proposal championed by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy.
Justice Elena Kagan on Monday brushed aside concerns about whether lower court judges could effectively enforce the Supreme Court’s new ethics rules, saying those on the federal bench are more than capable of holding justices to account.
Asked Friday about the challenges of being a Supreme Court justice and a parent of seven children, Amy Coney Barrett told an audience about a time she was sent home from the court with a bulletproof vest and her 13-year-old son saw it tossed on a bed.
High student debt is affecting the emotional well-being of young lawyers and affecting their life decisions, according to a 2024 survey by the ABA Young Lawyers Division released Monday.
A judge on Friday delayed Donald Trump’s hush money sentencing until after the November election, which means voters will cast ballots without knowing whether the Republican nominee could face jail time for his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Starting this season, whenever the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks play away from home, hockey fans with a passing knowledge of legal technology will see a familiar sight on the team’s uniforms.
Companies tend to prefer arbitration over a jury trial for a number of reasons. In arbitration, there’s usually a quicker and quieter resolution, more confidentiality, no jury, limited appeal and discovery, and relaxed evidentiary rules.
Georgia officials charged the father of the suspected Apalachee High gunman with two counts of second-degree murder Thursday—the most severe ever filed against the parent of an alleged school shooter.
Seven Republican-led states sued on Tuesday to block President Joe Biden’s new policy to reduce or eliminate the student loan balances of millions of borrowers, claiming the Education Department is illegally preparing to start debt cancellation before the rule is finalized.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Biden administration to strip millions of health care dollars from Oklahoma over its refusal to direct patients to information about abortions—a federal requirement that the state says would be at odds with its strict ban on terminating pregnancies.
Most dog moms and cat dads accept the hard truth that they will likely outlive their beloved animals. But what happens when pets outlive their humans?
Although it offers a wealth of biographical detail, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s new memoir, Lovely One, showcases little of the feistiness that marks Jackson’s judicial pronouncements.
Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, the ABA has argued in an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.
Special counsel Jack Smith is trying to nurse back to health cases with potentially fatal ailments: in Florida, a set of charges dismissed by a highly skeptical Trump appointee; in D.C., a case of alleged election obstruction that the nation’s highest court has already amputated once, and may do so again.
The Maryland Supreme Court on Friday upheld an appellate court’s decision to reinstate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, a blow to the “Serial” podcast subject but one that probably does not conclude his legal fight.
The July 2024 Multistate Bar Examination boasted more test-takers than the previous year, while the mean score on the just-completed exam went up.
“Of all my legacies, this is the one I’m most proud of,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor told about 200 parents, children, actors and musicians gathered in a church hall to rehearse a musical adaptation of her children’s book Just Ask. “You have brought to life a book that was in my head for over 35 years.”
A federal appeals court ruled this week that a lawyer’s mandatory membership in the Oregon State Bar violated his freedom-of-association rights because its magazine published statements that criticized former President Donald Trump and implied that the membership agreed.
Updated: After firing a tenured professor in July, the St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law has reinstated her for the purpose of formally terminating her via the due process rights spelled out in the faculty handbook.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to immediately clear the way for the Biden administration’s new student loan relief and repayment plan, adding to uncertainty about the future of a program that would affect millions of borrowers and has become part of the sharp political debate over who is responsible for hefty tuition debt.
You don’t have to be a celebrity to make outlandish divorce requests. Divorce lawyers have seen everything, from parakeet-support requests to arguments over who gets to keep the coffee maker.
A Massachusetts law banning the possession of switchblades violates the Second Amendment, the state’s top court ruled Tuesday.
Indiana could help address an attorney shortage in underserved communities through law student scholarships and loan-repayment assistance, according to initial recommendations by the Indiana Supreme Court’s Commission on Indiana’s Legal Future.
