A California appeals court has ruled a Lutheran school isn’t liable for ousting two girls who told friends they were lesbians and admitted that they had hugged and kissed.
A litigant who filed his own appeals brief written partially in rap has won a Wisconsin appeals court ruling that he doesn’t have to pay legal fees for a lawsuit…
A federal appeals court has ordered expedited briefing in a challenge to a Boston judge’s order allowing a live Internet broadcast of a hearing in an illegal downloading suit.
Although an irritated Wisconsin judge apparently didn’t intend his lecture to an African-American stay-at-home dad to reflect any racial bias, phrases such as “baby mama” and “you guys” require that…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a union local may charge nonmembers for national litigation costs without violating their First Amendment rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused the government’s request that it consider the constitutionality of an Internet pornography law blocked from taking effect because of free speech concerns.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that federal judges may depart from federal sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine simply because they disagree with the harsh sentencing policy.
A California appeals court has agreed to hear a claim by fugitive film director Roman Polanski that the criminal system has been biased in its handling of a decades-old child-rape…
As in Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme, Bradford Bleidt stole $32.6 million by persuading those with social ties to give him money to “invest.” In Bleidt’s case, his…
Secrecy makes it impossible for reporters to inquire whether a telecommunications company will appeal a previously undisclosed ruling rejecting a constitutional challenge to a law requiring cooperation in warrantless wiretaps.
In a 5-4 opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to extend a 2000 decision to bar judges from determining facts when deciding whether sentences should run consecutively.
Twice convicted and sentenced to death in a 1978 rape-murder, based on eyewitness testimony and a claimed confession to a cellmate, Jonathan Bruce Reed has just won a third trial…
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