Legal thriller author Scott Turow sees a connection between Rod Blagojevich’s conviction on just one count of lying to the FBI and “the hypocritical mess our…
A group of Benedictine monks is seeking a federal court order recognizing their claimed constitutional right to sell simple wooden coffins—at what they say is a considerably lower cost than…
This time, jurors deliberated only two hours before convicting a right-wing blogger for an Internet tirade in which he said Judge Richard Posner and two other federal appeals judges “deserved…
Three well-known federal appeals judges testified against a white supremacist blogger on Wednesday in his third trial for a tirade in which he said the jurists “deserveto be killed” and…
Wikipedia’s lawyer has fired off a letter to the FBI claiming the bureau cited an “aspirational version” of the law when it threatened a lawsuit over the website’s display of…
A Washington, D.C., judge has lifted her own restraining order that had barred the National Law Journal from reporting that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating pomegranate juice maker POM…
Semiprofessional photographer Duane Kerzic has nothing bad to say about Amtrak, despite his arrest by Amtrak police for snapping photos of the railroad in an effort to win its annual…
Target has donated $150,000 to a group supporting a controversial GOP candidate for Minnesota governor, taking advantage of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling finding corporations have a First Amendment right…
Once upon a time when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times by Daniel Ellsberg, both he and the newspaper made decisions to withhold some of the…
A Mississippi school district has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit by a lesbian teen denied the chance to attend a school-sponsored prom with a same-sex date.
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