More litigation is likely to follow Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on behalf of white firefighters who sued over a decision to throw out a promotional exam.
Headlines proclaiming the reversal of a federal appeals court ruling by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are off the mark, according to a journalist who has covered the high…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on behalf of white firefighters challenging a decision to throw out a promotional exam because no blacks got top scores.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia warned lawyers to avoid Latin words, legal jargon and clichés in a meeting of the State Bar of Texas on Friday.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. doesn’t see a conflict in two recent Supreme Court rulings on the authority of high school administrators to regulate students’ conduct.
The U.S. Supreme Court will issue a decision today in a case brought by white firefighters challenging a decision to throw out a promotional exam because no blacks got top…
After wrestling with the concept of deliberate indifference, a federal jury in Texas today awarded $5 million to a man wrongfully convicted in a kidnapping and rape case more than…
In a decision that resurrects a convicted sex offender’s lawsuit against a Las Vegas detective and local prosecutor, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has said the…
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Seattle’s efforts to regulate balloon artist “Magic Mike” Berger and other street performers violates the First Amendment.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to take a case that explores whether police should have to tell suspects that they have a right to have a lawyer present during…
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