The Amish religion is a branch of Christianity which adheres to a doctrine of simplicity, non-violence and forgiveness. How then did a breakaway group come to be implicated in the first federal trial which prosecuted religiously motivated hate crimes within the same faith community?
A partner of a well-known law firm thought he had a constitutional right to talk with Occupy Wall Street anniversary protesters on his way to an appointment last September.
A class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday claims Mississippi’s Scott County has jailed inmates for up to a year without indicting them or appointing counsel.
A 51-year-old woman who was punched repeatedly by a uniformed California Highway Patrol officer alongside a freeway earlier this year has agreed to accept a $1.5 million settlement. The officer…
A U.S. Army private convicted last year as Bradley Manning in a high-profile military secrets case for providing hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, is back in…
A judge accused of trying two defendants without a prosecutor or defense lawyers may have shed his immunity to a civil rights suit, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Updated: For the second time in one week, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling in an inmate’s case seeking to have an untimely…
The city and county of San Francisco voted yesterday to allocate $2.1 million for legal services to unaccompanied immigrant minors and families facing deportation, according to KPIX.
The three-day conference this week celebrating the Legal Service Corporation’s 40th anniversary offered up a big portion of lovefest kudos from dignitaries such as Vice President Joe Biden and former…
Three of this year’s MacArthur “genius grant” winners are lawyers who focus on criminal justice or civil rights issues, while a fourth is a professor who studies the impact of…
A livery car service that aims to connect female customers with taxis driven by women in pink pashmina scarves has delayed its New York launch until it can line up…
Joining a trend that has sparked the creation of conviction-integrity units in a number of state prosecutor’s offices, the District of Columbia is establishing what is billed as the first…
In the wake of losses in two federal appellate cases concerning policies that discouraged homeless individuals from living on the streets of Los Angeles, the city has decided to drop…
Updated: It appears that a call by the public defender for the state of Maryland to ban a senior circuit court judge from hearing cases may have been heeded by…
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