Fielding questions after a lecture at Harvard Law School on Wednesday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia outlined the limits of the court’s decision on the right to bear arms…
A week after a much-criticized incident in which a naked man Tasered by New York City police fell from a fire escape and died, the lieutenant who ordered the use…
Although she was still in law school, Mahvish Khan had a critical skill that most trained attorneys representing detainees at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay didn’t—as the…
The state of Washington plans to monitor electronically all newly released sex offenders considered potentially violent, for at least the first 30 days.
The Global Positioning System tracking bracelets that…
A high-school dropout and single mother who was inspired to get her high school equivalency diploma and put herself through college and law school by her brother’s 1983 murder conviction…
Two former security employees at a Neiman Marcus department store near Chicago were fired after a video camera allegedly twice caught the “close friends” allegedly involved in “sexual activity” with…
Gearing up for a First Amendment battle, several pastors in Orange County, Calif., joined dozens of others across the nation yesterday in preaching politics.
A Japanese businessman who is fighting a court battle on two fronts to avoid being tried on charges related to the 1981 murder of his wife has seemingly lost another…
A second Supreme Court justice is opting out of the cert pool, made up of law clerks who review cert petitions and recommend whether they should be granted.
Two federal appeals judges known for their conservative philosophies are taking aim at Justice Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion finding a constitutional right to…
The U.S. Supreme Court returns to the bench this month facing an eclectic mix of cases, including whether television viewers must tolerate the F-word on live broadcasts, whether whales can…
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