Four current and former high school students in Washington state sued the Puyallup School District in federal court yesterday, contending that their names were used without their permission in a…
A partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has published a gay romance novel under a pen name, but he’s not shy about how Proposition 8 has affected him.
A white supremacist who is accused of posting information on the Internet soliciting harm to a federal jury foreman pleaded not guilty today in federal court in Chicago.
Although he was then chairman of the firm, Michael Hausfeld apparently didn’t even know that his fellow partners at Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll were holding a vote Nov. 6…
Contending that their First Amendment right to religious freedom is being abridged by too-zealous enforcement of a New York municipality’s building codes, a group of Amish families plans to file…
In a potential move that could change the landscape of the nation’s criminal justice system, president-elect Barack Obama reportedly has asked his advisers to put together a plan to close…
Overruling a federal trial judge, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the state of Illinois is not required to issue “Choose Life” license plates sought…
Citing the health risks posed by secondhand smoke, a community council in London has banned the placement of foster children with foster parents who smoke, unless exceptional circumstances apply.
At least two women voters in the Texas area found out only after they got to their polling places about the sweeping scope of a state law banning election paraphernalia,…
Two brothers who contend the Texas lawyer who won them a $1.7 million settlement in a wrongful arrest case is overcharging them have taken the bill battle to the next…
Unhappy that a female lawyer had been appointed to represent him in an appeal, a South Carolina inmate wrote to various officials seeking to have a different attorney appointed to…
After a 12-year legal odyssey, a 29-year-old California man who has long maintained his innocence of a 1996 murder is free to move on with his life. In his future,…
A Minnesota tax protester who tried to haul the federal judge assigned to his case into “common law court” now has an extra conviction on his record as a result.
A military lawyer appointed to defend an unwilling client in a terrorism trial before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has joined his client in refusing to participate in…
For the first time in 17 years, the American Civil Liberties Union has a new public face. On Saturday, the group elected constitutional law scholar Susan Herman as president.
The ABA Journal wants to host and facilitate conversations among lawyers about their profession. We are now accepting thoughtful, non-promotional articles and commentary by unpaid contributors.