An editorial writer at the Wall Street Journal is taking legal thriller writer John Grisham to task for supporting merit selection of judges over judicial elections.
Justice Antonin Scalia showed his familiarity with Oscar the Grouch in a dissenting opinion on Tuesday that supported the right of political parties to affiliate with candidates of their choosing.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision yesterday emphasizing the importance of eliminating racial bias in jury selection, according to the lawyer for a black murder defendant who won…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled a trial court erred when it allowed a prosecutor to remove a black juror partly on the ground that he appeared nervous.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s apparent embrace of an individual right to bear arms during oral arguments yesterday leads to the next question: How far does the right…
A phone call from a wealthy social acquaintance led to what presumably must be the biggest case in one 37-year-old Washington, D.C., lawyer’s professional life. Alan Gura was arguing yesterday…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a federal appellate ruling that found a Seattle man convicted in state court of a drive-by shooting deserved a new trial because…
A former prison camp guard who says he was forced to persecute others in Africa will get a chance to press his case for asylum with the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme court has turned down an appeal by Microsoft Corp. that seeks to halt a multibillion-dollar lawsuit contending it “deliberately targeted and destroyed” a competitor’s word-processing program to…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a state forensic lab report can be admitted as evidence absent testimony from the expert who prepared it.
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Federal Communications Commission can penalize broadcasters that air so-called fleeting expletives—the unscripted use of the F-word by celebrities or…
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