8677 ABA Journal Constitutional Law articles.
It isn’t illegal. But an ambitious Google Inc. project to map metropolitan areas throughout the country is reducing the limited amount of privacy that used to apply, as a practical…
Aug 7, 2007 6:50 PM CDT
Gender identity isn’t a phrase that traditionally comes up in everyday conversation. But it’s a hot topic among lawmakers and lobbyists these days, as both Congress and a growing number…
Aug 7, 2007 3:56 PM CDT
An en banc federal appeals court ruled today that patients don’t have a constitutional right of access to experimental drugs that have passed limited safety trials.
The ruling…
Aug 7, 2007 3:50 PM CDT
Accommodations for Muslim students at public universities are raising legal questions about the separation of church and state.
The University of Michigan at Dearborn is one of more than a…
Aug 7, 2007 3:18 PM CDT
American intelligence agents tortured terrorist suspects captured after Sept. 11 in secret foreign prisons for years, suspending the practice only after the U.S. Supreme Court declared it illegal in a…
Aug 6, 2007 7:58 PM CDT
Teaching but not preaching is the goal. But Christian religious instruction reportedly is the reality in many public schools that teach courses that purportedly seek to inform students about the…
Aug 6, 2007 3:23 PM CDT
Anti-abortion groups are pursuing a strategy that focuses on the consequences for women who undergo abortion.
An example is the law passed by South Dakota, Adam Liptak writes in his…
Aug 6, 2007 1:55 PM CDT
Over the years, William Bruce had reportedly attempted suicide, attacked both of his siblings, resulting in broken limbs, and threatened friends with an AK-47 automatic rifle, among other incidents. So…
Aug 3, 2007 11:31 PM CDT
Lawyers for the son of a man who died in 1995 after 28 years in prison, serving a sentence for a murder he didn’t commit, told a federal judge in…
Aug 3, 2007 10:53 PM CDT
Two Santa Clarita lawyers who sought an injunction to protect their daughters and other local children from associating with a self-admitted pedophile got everything they sought from a California judge…
Aug 3, 2007 7:15 PM CDT
A homeless man who is unable to register his address as a sex offender faces a life sentence under a Georgia law.
The lawyer for Larry Moore Jr. of Augusta…
Aug 3, 2007 6:02 PM CDT
A federal appeals court ruled today that the FBI must return privileged legislative documents seized in a raid of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson’s office last year.
Jefferson was indicted after…
Aug 3, 2007 4:31 PM CDT
A county judge struck down Virginia’s high fees for the state’s dangerous drivers yesterday.
Judge Archer Yeatts III of Henrico County said the state law violates equal protection guarantees because…
Aug 3, 2007 2:54 PM CDT
Joe Camel has made it through the eye of a needle.
The California Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit against four tobacco companies targeting ads that appeal to youths, the…
Aug 3, 2007 11:42 AM CDT
In a case that could have an effect on United States law enforcement, a prominent Canadian criminal attorney serving as a special prosecutor has recommended that his country reconsider its…
Aug 1, 2007 11:47 PM CDT
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