Lawyers who work on indigent appeals for the Central California Appellate Program have been warned that their Social Security numbers and personal information have been stolen.
A footnote by Justice David H. Souter in the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning $2.5 billion in punitive damages in the Exxon Valdez oil spill is prompting…
Rejecting a suggestion by a probation officer that Terry Christensen should be confined in his Beverly Hills home, a federal judge in California today sentenced the high-profile Los Angeles lawyer…
An appeals court in Texas has ordered attorneys for an inmate facing the death penalty to explain why they didn’t complain sooner about a now-admitted affair between the judge and…
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday on whether the Sixth Amendment requires lab workers to be available for cross-examination about their forensic reports.
Nearly 25 years after a catastrophic accident in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people, a federal appeals court in the U.S. has reinstated a 2004 lawsuit concerning those allegedly exposed…
Broadcast lawyer Carter Phillips reportedly used two four-letter words in oral arguments before a federal appeals court in the so-called fleeting expletives case, but…
Justices’ questions during oral arguments yesterday suggest the U.S. Supreme Court may issue a narrow ruling in a case that asks whether federally approved drug labels protect pharmaceutical companies from…
The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with members of the Westboro Baptist Church, who regularly make headlines and anger grieving families by showing up and…
Expect significant changes in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence if John McCain is elected the nation’s next president, an American University law professor says.
Herman Schwartz, of the university’s Washington College…
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