A Colorado family is fighting for the right of their transgender daughter to use the girls’ restroom at her grade school in a complaint filed with the state’s civil rights…
In June 1962, when the U.S. Supreme Court granted review of the handwritten pauper’s appeal from a Florida inmate named Clarence Earl Gideon, the court correspondent of the New York…
Following a confrontation between an adjunct law professor at the University of Oregon and campus demonstrators his name has been removed from the school’s website directory.
After civil rights groups went to bat on his behalf, a Michigan lawyer is once again free to use his Facebook page to post about class action litigation over chicken…
Citing the famous Gideon v. Wainright case, in which a prison inmate’s pro se petition, handwritten in pencil, resulted in U.S. Supreme Court ruling recognizing a defendant’s constitutional right to…
A New Mexico man who was arrested for driving under the influence and ended up in solitary confinement without any court proceeding for 22 months has reached a $15.5 million…
We live in a society which values individual freedoms, but we come from a place which valued kinship ties above all else. Author Mark S. Weiner has studied ancient and modern-day clan societies in which group responsibility, rather than individual responsibility, is the rule of law.
In an 8-3 ruling, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has put restrictions on the ability of border agents to search laptop computers.
A former third-year law student claims in a lawsuit that the University of Nebraska College of Law discriminated against him and violated his constitutional rights when he was kicked out…
For a moment, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins seems discomfited. That is not his nature. In the words of a reporter covering the revamped military commissions now trying accused…
Mar 1, 2013 11:20 AM CST
Photo of Brig. Gen. Mark Martins by Dave Moser.
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Anita Alvarez: “I took an oath… to defend the constitution of the state of Illinois and I believe that’s what I’m doing.” AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File.
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In an unusual statement issued Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor decried a prosecutor’s “racially charged remark” about money, minorities and drug deals, though she agreed with a decision to deny cert…
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