Saying that there is no proof that higher levels of testosterone significantly help women in competition, a top global sports appeals court gave international track and field’s governing body two…
The U.S. government is asking a federal judge to impose a life sentence on the former owner of a peanut-processing company who was convicted for covering up salmonella contamination.
A federal appeals court has questioned the Supreme Court’s abortion standards while striking down a strict North Dakota abortion law that generally banned abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat…
In the initial phase of a post-conviction sentencing hearing, the same Colorado jury that found James Holmes guilty last week of shooting 12 people to death at a Batman movie…
Monroe Bird III had health insurance when he was shot by an apartment complex security guard, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But his coverage was denied based on his alleged activities that…
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican presidential hopeful, signed a bill Monday making it a felony to perform abortions after 20 weeks from fertilization unless a woman’s life is in…
What can you do to get through federal judicial appointment hearings? Try answering questions with baseball metaphors, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski tells Concurring Opinions.
Just as new technology created issues of digital privacy, scientific experiments linking animal brains are raising new issues of neural privacy and legal responsibility.
The widow of a Kentucky lawyer shot and killed by a man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia has sued the hospital that released the man 44 days before the murder.
The number of Massachusetts residents who seek personal bankruptcy protection has dropped significantly, and that may be due the state’s 2005 law that made health insurance mandatory, Daniel Austin, a…
October Term 2014—from Monday, Oct. 6 to Monday, June 29—will be remembered for its decisions that created a right to marriage equality in every state and saved the Patient Protection…
Is there anything you wouldn't do for a paying client? Whether you are a solo practitioner or a lawyer in a firm, the realities of the legal business cause money…
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