Videotaping a deposition is an opportunity to “pan for gold”—nonverbal snippets such as a telling facial expression or extended pause that can be used at trial to define the witness…
A lawsuit filed by a the parents of a teenage student contends that his upscale suburban Philadelphia high school spied on him via a webcam on the laptop computer it…
On the cutting edge of animal-rights law, voters in Switzerland are poised to consider a ballot measure that would require each of the country’s cantons (in effect, states) to appoint…
A New York attorney who co-founded a Russian law firm in 1993 has fled the country, saying he fears he will suffer the same fate as a dead colleague if…
The attorney general of Texas is seeking to intervene in a divorce case involving a same-sex couple, arguing that the two women can’t be legally divorced in the state because…
Updated: During a criminal contempt hearing in Chicago last week, U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said he was inclined to sentence infomercial pitchman Kevin Trudeau to a jail term for…
Citing a lack of evidence to prove that New York City police “acted willfully” when they fired some 50 shots at an unarmed African-American man leaving his bachelor party on…
As lawyers argue about the intent of the drafters of the Constitution and judges mull the issue before deciding civil rights cases, a little-noticed phenomenon also has significant influence on…
The claimed sexual orientation of the federal judge overseeing the so-called Prop 8 case is a nonissue, writes Erwin Chemerinsky in an opinion column in the Advocate.
An appeals court in the United Kingdom has required the British government to release an unredacted version of a seven-paragraph document summarizing U.S. intelligence information about the 2002 interrogation of…
A federal lawsuit filed today by a Pomona College student says he was detained, handcuffed and interrogated at the Philadelphia International Airport over a five-hour period last year simply because…
In a 6-5 decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that San Francisco’s process for strip-searching thousands of new jail inmates over a 21-month period is constitutional.
A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday overturned a $2.1 million verdict that jurors had awarded a Northland lawyer who claimed she was unfairly bypassed for a judicial appointment.
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