In a rare real-life, high-stakes demonstration of the prisoner’s dilemma—two suspects can both escape consequences, but only by trusting each other not to snitch to authorities—a judge in Malaysia has…
There are two kinds of U.S. Supreme Court justices who are less likely to retire: those who have power, and those who don’t have it but retain a strong sense…
A U.S. attorney is applying a criminal statute in a novel way as part of a grand jury investigation into the Los Angeles archdiocese and its response to pedophile priests,…
In a move that could stretch the traditional definition of “pollution” to the breaking point, an insurer in Texas has asserted the pollution exclusion in its commercial liability policy in…
U.S. Supreme Court justices are swayed by their law clerks, tending to vote more liberally or conservatively as more clerks of like ilk join their chambers, according to a new…
Federal prosecutors are reportedly readying indictments for the Blackwater Worldwide guards who are alleged to have participated in the 2007 shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians. The shootings left 17 dead…
The prosecution’s star witness in the cyber-bullying trial of a St. Louis suburban woman told how she created a fictional teenage boy on MySpace who sent insulting messages to a…
John McCain outlined his judicial philosophy in a May speech in which he held up two Supreme Court justices as models: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A.…
Barack Obama voted against the confirmation of John G. Roberts Jr. for chief justice and issued a statement that shows his strong convictions on constitutional law.
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