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.
At 10 a.m., on an Indian summer Monday in some future October, a switch will activate two cameras focused on the U.S. Supreme Court. C-SPAN will pick up the feed…
The Section of Litigation presented a high-powered U.S. Supreme Court wrap-up panel today featuring two former U.S. solictors general and a nationally known Stanford Law School professor providing commentary at…
Harvard Law School professor Mark Tushnet believes Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent majority opinion striking down a ban on handguns in the home was a compromise decision, crafted to appeal to…
After years of wrangling and a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court over the courthouse displays featuring the Ten Commandments, a federal judge has agreed to allow two Kentucky counties…
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