The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft has immunity in a civil suit by a Muslim citizen who says he was unconstitutionally held…
The U.S. Supreme Court considered Wednesday whether a Texas death row inmate has a right to DNA evidence in arguments so dry that several publications were compelled to comment.
Justice William J. Brennan Jr. wrote a landmark opinion in 1973 criticizing the country’s “long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination,” but three years before he had quickly dismissed the…
In oral arguments in a vaccine case on Tuesday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor seemed least inclined to rule that federal law pre-empts state lawsuits for design defects in vaccines, according to…
Two people ejected from a presidential speech because of their car’s bumper sticker have lost their bid to have their case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
A woman accused of trying to poison a romantic rival claims her federal prosecution is barred by the 10th Amendment in a case accepted today by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether police and social workers must get a warrant before interviewing children at school about suspected sexual abuse by family members.
My name is Mike Sacks. I am a third-year law student at Georgetown interested in legal journalism and the intersection of law and politics. This semester, I have no morning…
The founding dean of the University of California, Irvine’s law school has a beef with Bush v. Gore—but it’s not the familiar criticism that the case is an example of…
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