Five years ago, the Florida Bar reportedly OK’d attorney Bill Harrell’s use of the phrase “Don’t settle for less than you deserve” in his law firm advertising.
In a post entitled “The Partisan Elephant Unnoticed in the Room,” SCOTUSblog describes how liberal and conservative justices differed today over their approach to Indiana’s voter ID law,…
A Georgia Supreme Court justice asked lawyers how a defendant banished from all but one county could travel to that location upon his release from prison.
A public defender who helped prepare the case against lethal injections argued yesterday took “a humble road” to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to the headline in…
A New Hampshire municipality has sued its former legal counsel for malpractice, contending that he not only failed to appropriately advise the city of Claremont of the legal risks associated…
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a man who contended his lawyer’s participation by speakerphone in a key hearing amounted to ineffective assistance of counsel.
Lawyers challenging lethal injection procedures have been hampered by states’ refusal to disclose details about the three-drug cocktail and the identity of executioners.
The New York Times and the Washington Post have published editorials opposing Kentucky’s method of lethal injections as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the issue today.
A lawyer who helped Washington, D.C., draft a U.S. Supreme Court brief defending its gun ban will take over as lead counsel on the Second Amendment case pending before the…
A New York judge has upheld a state law requiring airlines to provide food, water and other amenities to passengers sitting in grounded airplanes for more than three hours.
Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff plans to release the legal ground rules this week for a planned satellite surveillance program in the United States.
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