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Criminal Justice

They didn’t commit new crimes, but they’re going back to prison

Mar 26, 2021 9:19 AM CDT

Litigation Management

Plenty of options when it comes to litigation fact management software

Mar 26, 2021 9:07 AM CDT

Death Penalty

Virginia becomes the first Southern state to eliminate the death penalty

Mar 25, 2021 2:28 PM CDT

Supreme Court Report

As madness moves through March, SCOTUS considers NCAA case over athlete compensation

Mar 25, 2021 2:01 PM CDT

U.S. Supreme Court

Roberts, Kavanaugh join with liberal justices to rule for woman shot by police while fleeing

Mar 25, 2021 1:11 PM CDT

U.S. Supreme Court

Kagan cites Ford’s ‘truckload of contacts’ with plaintiffs’ home states in jurisdictional SCOTUS ruling

Mar 25, 2021 11:55 AM CDT

Law in Popular Culture

‘Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’ and the problem with internet sleuths

Mar 25, 2021 11:04 AM CDT

Second Amendment

Gun owners have no unfettered right to carry their weapons in public, en banc appeals court says

Mar 25, 2021 10:28 AM CDT

Women in the Law

What is holding women lawyers back?

Mar 25, 2021 9:27 AM CDT

News Roundup

Afternoon Briefs: Judge irked by ‘60 Minutes’ interview; Caesars sues insurers for pandemic losses

Mar 24, 2021 4:17 PM CDT

Criminal Justice

Federal prosecutor is removed from criminal cases after allegations of witness pressure

Mar 24, 2021 3:13 PM CDT

Election Law

Law gives Congress more authority in vote count than Constitution allows, op-ed says

Mar 24, 2021 12:51 PM CDT

Labor & Employment

Yale prof claims she was wrongly fired after tweeting about Trump, Dershowitz, shared psychosis

Mar 24, 2021 11:45 AM CDT

Legal Education

Hiring decisions based on first-year grades miss ‘exceptional students,’ according to new paper

Mar 24, 2021 11:07 AM CDT

Criminal Justice

DA says she will toss 74,800 criminal cases because of lab fiasco

Mar 24, 2021 9:34 AM CDT

The Modern Law Library

In ‘The Watergate Girl,’ Jill Wine-Banks gives an inside look at the special prosecution team that brought down Nixon

Mar 24, 2021 9:18 AM CDT

News Roundup

Afternoon Briefs: Christian baker faces trial in new bias case; city approves housing reparations

Mar 23, 2021 4:19 PM CDT

Law Schools

Law dean reveals retirement was due to ‘slaveholder’ comment; remark followed tenure controversy

Mar 23, 2021 3:30 PM CDT

First Amendment

Sidney Powell lawyers argue no reasonable person would have accepted her stolen election claims as fact

Mar 23, 2021 12:56 PM CDT

Appellate Practice

3rd Circuit calls out lawyer for ‘copy-and-paste’ appeal, orders him to pay attorney fees

Mar 23, 2021 11:34 AM CDT

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