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Sotomayor apologizes for ‘hurtful’ comments about Kavanaugh

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor apologized for making what she called "inappropriate" and "hurtful" comments last week about fellow Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Apr 16, 2026 9:16 AM CDT

Sotomayor criticizes Kavanaugh over immigration stops concurrence

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday criticized another member of the high court for failing to understand the consequences of an order issued last year allowing immigration enforcement sweeps in Los Angeles to resume.

Apr 8, 2026 10:58 AM CDT

EEOC reverses course on transgender workers’ right to choose restrooms

In a 2-1 ruling this week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 allows federal agencies “to maintain single-sex bathrooms and similar intimate spaces” and “to exclude employees, including trans-identifying employees, from opposite-sex facilities.”

Feb 27, 2026 10:20 AM CST

Judge orders patent attorneys to explain incorrect legal citations hallucinated by AI

A Kansas federal judge ordered attorneys representing a patent licensing company to explain why they shouldn’t be sanctioned for submitting briefs that contained nonexistent and incorrect legal citations hallucinated by generative artificial intelligence, according to Law360.

Dec 17, 2025 12:25 PM CST

Meet the lawyer behind the Hallmark Hall of Fame holiday favorite

Following his books about Christmas and rescue dogs, attorney Greg Kincaid now writes about saving marriages.

Nov 24, 2025 9:39 AM CST

‘Whirlwind’: Bill Kurtis memoir tells how law school trained him for covering trials

The ABA Journal talked with the retired CBS News anchor and executive producer of many legal-oriented television documentary series—including Cold Case Files, American Greed and Investigative Reports—at his home outside Chicago.

Oct 2, 2025 9:08 AM CDT

Court is not ‘enforcement division’ for ‘Miss Manners,’ concurring judge says as discipline case is tossed

The Kansas Supreme Court has rejected a recommended censure against a former district attorney who issued a press release questioning a chief judge’s statements about a plan to host jury trials at the county fairgrounds during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sep 3, 2025 12:35 PM CDT

Does artificial intelligence have a role in legal scholarship?

Now that artificial intelligence is actively used by many in academia—in the classroom, for syllabus development and in research—what is its proper role in legal scholarship while maintaining academic integrity?

May 2, 2025 1:35 PM CDT

Kansas nears ‘constitutional crisis’ because of attorney shortage, justice says

A shortage of lawyers in rural Kansas is straining the court system and requiring judges to look outside the community to find lawyers to represent parties entitled to a court-appointed lawyer, according to Kansas Supreme Court Justice Keynen "K.J." Wall Jr., who chaired a committee examining the problem.

Dec 23, 2024 3:50 PM CST

Did ethics case constitute ‘crying in baseball’? Kansas supremes debate discipline as ‘sword’

Updated: A Kansas attorney has received a six-month stayed suspension for making “inflammatory attacks” on an opposing counsel and including “irrelevant information” in a court filing intended to diminish his client’s estranged wife.

Nov 14, 2024 1:02 PM CST

Did you read the small print? ‘Infinite’ arbitration clauses are on the rise

Companies tend to prefer arbitration over a jury trial for a number of reasons. In arbitration, there’s usually a quicker and quieter resolution, more confidentiality, no jury, limited appeal and discovery, and relaxed evidentiary rules.

Sep 6, 2024 11:46 AM CDT

GEICO doesn’t have to pay for STD contracted during car sex, despite policy punctuation, 8th Circuit says

A woman who contracted human papillomavirus after car sex isn’t entitled to damages from her sexual partner’s auto insurance policy, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Aug 5, 2024 11:40 AM CDT

Courts grant injunctions against Biden’s student loan repayment plan

The future of President Biden’s new student loan repayment plan is in doubt after a pair of federal judges issued separate injunctions Monday preventing the government from fully implementing and forgiving any more loans through the program while they consider lawsuits to end the policy.

Jun 25, 2024 12:55 PM CDT

10 temporary federal judgeships would become permanent under Senate bill approved on voice vote

The U.S. Senate on Saturday approved by voice vote a bipartisan bill that would make permanent 10 temporary federal district court judgeships.

Apr 23, 2024 9:36 AM CDT

Lawyer’s copied website material, statements about experience weren’t false or misleading, top state court rules

A part-time lawyer didn’t violate a disciplinary rule banning false or misleading communications by posting copied material on her website, along with statements such as “experience counts,” the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Dec. 1.

Dec 7, 2023 3:35 PM CST