Corrected: A federal judge in Akron was emotional yesterday as she sentenced a former Ohio jurist to the maximum allowed by sentencing guidelines in a political corruption case.
The U.S. Supreme Court has 48 cases on the docket so far this term, and 20 of them hail from the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus recalls covering Anita Hill’s allegations against Clarence Thomas during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing 20 years ago this month.
With unfailing courtesy, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 91, writes, in “informative and very appealing” fashion about his 34 years on the nation’s top court in Five…
An inmate on death row for murdering his estranged wife and brother-in-law in an Ohio domestic relations courtroom is pursuing a federal civil rights suit over the state prison system’s…
Editor’s Note: On this First Monday in October as justices convene for the U.S. Supreme Court’s fall term, the ABA Journal welcomes constitutional law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, who will write…
A federal appeals court has delayed the release of video recordings of last year’s trial on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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