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…
In another step toward a likely relaxation of a strict Illinois state law banning concealed-carry firearms under most circumstances, a divided federal appeals court on Friday denied a request for…
A small town in Washington state has agreed to pay at least $51,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit over the death of a 115-pound dog shot to death…
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