The price of surveillance equipment is falling, tempting people who are plagued by neighbors’ bad acts to buy a camera and play spy to catch the wrongdoers.
An already-contentious relationship between a Texas judge and a number of his colleagues on the bench likely has not improved since yesterday’s general election.
Spending on TV advertising in state supreme court elections totaled $12 million this year, with an unprecedented amount of money pouring into retention elections, including the election in Iowa that…
In a first-time-ever rejection of sitting Iowa Supreme Court judges for retention, state voters have nixed three justices at the polls following their approval last year of same-sex marriage.
When a federal prosecutor tried to get a gag order against an outspoken critic of a case holding two Midwestern doctors criminally accountable for prescribing pain medication, a judge said…
Both the left and the right have called for the impeachment of three current justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, but those pleas are unlikely to go very far, if…
A First Amendment appellate lawyer who would have been the first openly gay person appointed to the federal bench says he was told the White House declined his recommended nomination…
A judicial candidate censured this week by a legal ethics agency in Nevada over her criticism of her opponent has won an emergency restraining order from chief federal judge of…
Harvard law professor and constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe offered a spirited endorsement of Elena Kagan in a 2009 memo that noted the law school dean had the ability to persuade…
Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor says two mistakes were made when thousands of Nevadans got a 1 a.m. recorded phone call from her earlier this week urging approval of a…
One out of every two people over the age of 85 has Alzheimer’s, and that’s a worry for Sandra Day O’Connor, who retired from the Supreme Court to care for…
A Northwestern University law professor notes that Justice Clarence Thomas may find himself in a controversial position when the health-care reform issue reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, most likely in…
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