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First Amendment

Lawyer arrested at state bar meeting for carrying petitions reaches settlement

Jan 22, 2025 2:58 PM CST

Bar Exam

LA wildfires will not stop California’s plans to offer new bar exam next month

Jan 22, 2025 2:41 PM CST

Judiciary

Justice Jackson wore cowrie shell collar to inauguration; was it ‘a sartorial expression of her dissent’?

Jan 22, 2025 12:03 PM CST

Legal Education

As Los Angeles deals with wildfires, law schools offer support

Jan 22, 2025 10:59 AM CST

U.S. Supreme Court

Death row inmate can pursue due process appeal over sex-life evidence admitted at trial, Supreme Court says

Jan 22, 2025 10:40 AM CST

Immigration Law

DOJ says it will prosecute local officials over immigration enforcement

Jan 22, 2025 9:35 AM CST

Animal Law

Elephants don’t have standing to sue to leave the zoo, top Colorado court rules

Jan 22, 2025 8:46 AM CST

Constitutional Law

States, civil rights groups sue to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order

Jan 21, 2025 2:45 PM CST

Judiciary

Federal judge fed up with ‘fiddle-faddle’ requires lawyers to meet for lunch; how did it go?

Jan 21, 2025 2:17 PM CST

Law Professors

Penn Law is quicker to discipline whites than minorities, controversial prof alleges in lawsuit

Jan 21, 2025 12:29 PM CST

Executive Branch

Trump’s executive orders already face pushback, legal challenges

Jan 21, 2025 11:15 AM CST

U.S. Supreme Court

SCOTUS will decide whether schools can require LGBTQ-themed books at story time with no opt-outs

Jan 21, 2025 10:27 AM CST

Sentencing/Post Conviction

Trump pardons almost all involved in Jan. 6 riot, commutes remaining 14 sentences

Jan 21, 2025 8:15 AM CST

Executive Branch

Here are the executive actions and orders Trump signed on Day 1

Jan 21, 2025 8:05 AM CST

Constitutional Law

Biden reaffirms belief that the Equal Rights Amendment is the law

Jan 17, 2025 12:15 PM CST

Executive Branch

Biden commutes sentences of nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders

Jan 17, 2025 9:52 AM CST

Immigration Law

ABA calls on senators to oppose ‘deeply concerning’ immigration bill

Jan 17, 2025 9:35 AM CST

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban-or-sale law set to start Sunday

Jan 17, 2025 9:22 AM CST

Tax Law

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein faces tax evasion charges

Jan 16, 2025 3:58 PM CST

Ethics

Stanford Law prof fires Meta as client, citing platform’s ‘descent into toxic masculinity’

Jan 16, 2025 12:53 PM CST

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