Share The Supreme Court on Monday was divided over whether a Texas man on death row has a legal right to sue, known as standing, to bring federal civil rights claims challenging the constitutionality of the Texas laws governing DNA testing. Ruben Gutierrez is trying to obtain DNA testing of evidence that he says would […]
Share The court’s 2024-25 term will close out its scheduled oral arguments on April 30 with a Catholic online school’s effort to become the nation’s first religious charter school. The court’s April argument calendar, which it released on Monday, features several other significant social issues, including whether a group of Maryland parents can opt to […]
Cue the world’s tiniest violin for the new leadership at the Department of Justice. Government lawyers have made a public show of threatening legislators for calling Elon Musk a dick and hemorrhaging senior attorneys who refuse to engage in unethical conduct, but they haven’t so much “successfully argued in court” lately. And it seems all […]
Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning released a long list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Feb. 21 – the first regularly scheduled conference in nearly a month. Over dissents or statements from several justices, the court denied review in cases that they had considered repeatedly at their recent conferences. The court […]
One hoped that Justice Alito opening the door to basing constitutional law on the rantings of 17th century witch hunters would usher in a new era where we could finally get back to some old-fashioned stake burnings. Nothing is more “deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions” than putting a stop to Strega Nona’s […]
(Photo by Rafael Suanes/MCT/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. In the end, the results matter, people are absolutely entitled to make judgments about the court based on the results that the court is reaching and the reasons that the court is giving for those […]
Regional business is booming right now, with top Biglaw firms launching new offices in some of the hottest spots around the country in the hope of snatching up some valued market share. In today’s news alone, we’ve got three Biglaw firms opening up shop in new cities: Freshfields is throwing open its doors in Boston; […]
On a Saturday night in October 1973, President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliott Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson resigned his office rather than comply. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox. Ruckelshaus resigned his office rather than comply. The Princeton University Class of 1979 was assembled as a group […]
‘Come back!’ -Diddy probably (Photo by Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images) You’d expect smooth sailing in a case that had around a thousand bottles of baby oil seized as evidence. Given his billionaire status, Sean Combs was able to retain some of the best lawyers money could buy. Unfortunately, while big bucks may be a major thing, […]
Law firms are under immense pressure to handle larger, more complex caseloads while improving efficiency. According to recent research from Ari Kaplan Advisors the median number of cases that midsize to large law firms manage per year is 200. The majority (83%) of law firms expect this number to rise in the next 12 to […]
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