In a newspaper editorial today, a legal assistance lawyer calls for New Hampshire to follow recommendations of a state commission and the ABA and provide counsel to litigants who can’t…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case in which an inmate convicted of murder claims his lawyer improperly advised him to withdraw an insanity plea.
The future of some campaign finance laws may be at risk under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling yesterday striking down the so-called “Millionaire’s Amendment,” according to a law professor who…
Justices Antonin Scalia and John Paul Stevens took aim at each other in dueling majority and dissenting opinions in yesterday’s 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling finding a right to own…
The majority ruling yesterday by Justice Antonin Scalia finding a Second Amendment right to own handguns in the home is “his most important in his 22 years on the court,”…
Most gun restrictions are likely to survive the U.S. Supreme Court ruling yesterday that found an individual right under the Second Amendment to own a handgun for self-defense in the…
A Texas grand jury apparently investigating alleged sexual abuse of girls by a polygamous religious sect reportedly tried to call an attorney for one 16-year-old, Natalie Malonis, to testify yesterday.
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun, apart from service in a militia, SCOTUSblog reports.
California Supreme Court Justice Joyce Kennard takes issue with hate mail she has received criticizing her vote to legalize same-sex marriages in the state.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue the three final rulings of the term today, including a decision on whether the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own…
When Justice David H. Souter set a 1-1 ratio for punitive to compensatory damages in a majority opinion yesterday, he emphasized he could do so because the court was setting…
A court-appointed lawyer for a 16-year-old member of a polygamous religious sect was reportedly under armed guard today as she arrived for a Texas grand jury hearing in an ongoing…
After an appellate court ruling that a military prisoner held for more than six years without trial was improperly classified as an “enemy combatant,” the closure of…
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