A prominent U.S. Navy lawyer will serve as a visiting professor at Emory University School of Law this fall after retiring from the military, and he will help establish a…
Two new members of the U.S. Supreme Court reportedly have lost no time in overturning a number of settled precedents. And among those taking note of the situation are members…
Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani has appointed a Justice Advisory Committee that is made up of conservative lawyers from the Reagan and other GOP administrations.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is known for how frequently its liberal-leaning decisions are reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court. In the last session, the reversal rate was…
An Army reserve lawyer with an inside view of military tribunals at Guantanamo is scheduled to testify about his criticisms of the review process before a House committee this Thursday.
The nation’s chief advocate before the U.S. Supreme Court says most of the justices are sympathetic to business interests, decidedly so in antitrust cases.
Presidential candidate Barack Obama told a Planned Parenthood conference this afternoon that judicial philosophy needs to be weighed more carefully for potential U.S. Supreme Court justices.
The U.S. Supreme Court has listened to the critics and scaled back a proposed rule that would have required groups filing amicus briefs to reveal whether parties in the case…
Two former chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission want to file a late brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case seeking to hold third parties accountable for corporate accounting…
In what a well-known U.S. Supreme Court blog describes as “a 10-page opinion bristling with actual and implied criticism” of President George W. Bush’s commutation of the 30-month prison term…
Lawyers peppered with a lot of questions from the chief justice in Supreme Court oral arguments face more than a grilling: They also stand an increased chance of losing his…
The future is bleak for liberals hoping to take back the Supreme Court: They stand little chance of changing the court’s direction in the near- or even medium-term, writes Linda…
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