A Dallas lawyer and history buff researching the Battle of San Jacinto has tracked down the skulls of six Mexican soldiers who died there. Jeff Dunn, a shareholder at Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, is co-founder of a nonprofit organization known as the Friends of the San Jacinto Battleground, Texas…
A civil lawyer in Texas who became a part of history when he sought to protect the rights of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before Oswald, too, was killed has died at age 94. As calls began coming in from defense attorneys and law school deans…
A handwritten transcript of a coroner’s inquest following the most famous gunfight in the history of the Wild West has surfaced in Arizona. Found by court clerks who were sorting through records in a jail storage room in Bisbee, the nearly 130-year-old record of the OK Corral gunfight in Tombstone…
San Francisco lawyer Shelley Hubner was an industrious child. John F. Kennedy was a hero to her, and she wrote to the president often. Sometimes she asked about current issues, such as international relations, and sometimes she sought advice on more personal issues. “I recall asking him how I could…
With characteristic modesty, it appears, Justice John Paul Stevens opted to announce earlier this month his planned retirement at the conclusion of the current U.S. Supreme Court term, rather than tomorrow, his 90th birthday. He will be only the second justice in the history of the court to reach this…
Faced with a 25 percent budget cut, the newly elected Manhattan District Attorney has made layoffs. Although the total number of positions Cyrus Vance Jr. cut was under 10, the action sent shock waves through the office because all the lawyers asked to resign were said by unidentified prosecutors to…
The Los Angeles Times today, in a brief timeline, sums up the 90-year lifetime achievements of one of the nation’s renowned U.S. Supreme Court justices. It focuses on major milestones including his birth, law school graduation, career moves, marriages and children. (Another Los Angeles Times article lists some of his…
Following accolades earlier today by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. after Associate Justice John Paul Stevens announced his impending retirement, his other seven colleagues also weighed in with statements of praise for his extraordinary achievements during his 34 years on the bench of the nation’s top…
Updated: Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. has not exactly faded into oblivion since his 1997 death, having been memorialized in busts, buildings and, last year, a U.S. postage stamp.
Born biologically male, Norrie May-Welby, now 48, had a sex-change operation and became female 20 years ago. Now May-Welby has broken new ground and become a person legally recognized as having an unspecified gender, in what may be a world first, the Telegraph reports. As the Scavenger apparently first reported…
