8670 ABA Journal Constitutional Law articles.
In an unusual and perhaps unenforceable order, a federal judge in Virginia has told a self-published author to end a longstanding Internet vendetta against Patricia Cornwell, a best-selling crime novelist.
…Jun 7, 2007 8:16 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue rulings in 23 cases in its final month of the term.
By the time the court breaks for the summer, its final…
Jun 6, 2007 12:52 PM CDT
A recent execution in Ohio took so long that the convict reportedly needed a bathroom break before he died. That’s just one reason why people need to know more about…
Jun 5, 2007 7:56 PM CDT
U.S. Constitution Is Ratified
Jun 5, 2007 8:48 AM CDT
The F-word isn’t indecent enough to trigger Federal Communications Commission penalties when inadvertently used in television and radio broadcasts, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided today.
Its ruling…
Jun 5, 2007 2:06 AM CDT
The U.S. Constitution can provide some simple lessons about life, Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told college graduates on Saturday.
Speaking to graduates of St. Mary’s College in…
Jun 4, 2007 5:11 PM CDT
Litigation in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill case will come to an end if the U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear a punitive-damages appeal.
About 22 percent of the…
Jun 4, 2007 2:11 PM CDT
Twenty-five years after the Equal Rights Amendment failed to gain ratification, many doubt a new version of the measure will be successful.
“I do not see the kind of energized…
Jun 1, 2007 9:35 PM CDT
A city court judge in New Rochelle, N.Y., has found the arrest of a panhandler violated his free speech rights.
Eric Hoffstead had May 31, 2007 3:51 PM CDT
The Washington Supreme Court will hear an appeal today that contends an indigent divorce litigant who lost custody of her children was entitled to a free attorney.
Brenda Leone King…
May 31, 2007 3:20 PM CDT
Justices read dissents from the bench in only a handful of cases each year. But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has done it twice this term, reading forceful dissents in decisions…
May 31, 2007 2:37 PM CDT
A homeless man in New Rochelle, N.Y., claims his arrest for begging violates the First Amendment.
A federal judge struck down a begging ban in a 1992 ruling that applied…
May 30, 2007 3:36 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court today ordered California courts to re-evaluate a multi-million dollar award in a Ford rollover case.
Benetta Buell-Wilson was paralyzed when she swerved to avoid hitting a…
May 14, 2007 5:40 PM CDT
On this day in 1607, the first permanent British settlement in North America was established as men landed by the Virginia Charter Company on Jamestown Island, in what is now…
May 14, 2007 11:00 AM CDT
A USA Today story about Anthony M. Kennedy’s swing vote on the Supreme Court describes the justice as “a bespectacled 70-year-old Everyman.”
Of 11 rulings this term…
May 11, 2007 5:09 PM CDT
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