A bizarre case in which two senior Pennsylvania judges in Luzerne County are accused of having profited from putting hundreds—or perhaps even thousands—of youths into juvenile detention for relatively minor…
The legal profession in the United Kingdom is too socially exclusive, drawing lawyers from well-to-do families and private schools, according to a report released today.
With news today that three Republican senators plan to vote to put Sonia Sotomayor on the U.S. Supreme Court bench, her confirmation appears virtually certain–and likely to occur with a…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s recent comments about the right to abortion and concerns about population growth have provoked an op-ed columnist, who sees suggestions of eugenics in the “simplistic, pro-choice…
A Manhattan judge has tossed another New York judge’s $10 million defamation claim against a lawyer thought to be the source of two critical newspaper columns in the New York…
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