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E. Duncan Getchell Jr., a nominee for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has been accused of spreading defamatory statements about another Virginia lawyer in order to shore up his foundering nomination and shift blame for an $8 million court error.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court upheld a lower court's witness intimidation jury verdict by ruling that pointing a cellular telephone camera at a witness in a criminal case is witness intimidation.
The millions of blogs littering the Internet prove that everyone has an opinion. But you won't often find the general counsel of a major tech company shooting his mouth off about ongoing patent litigation.
California's Commission on Judicial Performance on Tuesday ordered an incorrigible clutter bug removed from the bench.
The Department of Justice has asked the federal judiciary to eliminate public Internet access to plea agreements in criminal case files and all related docket notations.
Erwin Chemerinsky, the prominent legal scholar slated to be founding dean at University of California, Irvine's new law school, had his offer withdrawn because of controversy created by his well-known liberal views, Chemerinsky said Wednesday.
A federal appeals court today upheld a lower court ruling that prohibited the distribution of Bibles to grade school students in a southern Missouri school district.
The Pennsylvania Superior Court isn't buying the argument that a man who viewed child pornography on his computer, but didn't save the images, couldn't be charged with possession of child pornography.
A decision to move Michigan's Ave Maria School of Law to Florida has touched off a firestorm of controversy at the seven-year-old Catholic law school. A disagreement over the relocation has escalated in the past few months into a feud between the dean and several faculty memb …
More than two years after enraging right-wing groups by ordering Terry Schiavo's feeding tube removed, George Greer still peers over his shoulder nervously at times.
On July 16, a lawyer in Israel filed a class action suit against the German government on behalf of "second-generation" victims of the Holocaust.
Some companies change the terms of their consumer contracts frequently. Sometimes, they do so without providing direct notice to consumers. But it's likely that this practice will become much rarer in the wake of a recent court decision. In Douglas v .U.S.
When you ask people to go clean out the attic, it is sometimes hard to understand why they are quick to toss out one thing as old worthless junk while hanging onto another that really doesn't seem to be much different or in any better condition.
Jack McClellan, a man who proudly calls himself a pedophile, blogs about his sexual interest in little girls and calls his readers' attention to various locations where interested parties can find large numbers of children (including international cities where children tend to be …
New Jersey's long-arm jurisdiction over Internet disputes just got a little longer. A state appeals court ruled Thursday that a California resident accused of making libelous statements in a Web-based forum can be sued in New Jersey because the material was "targeted" toward …
A court has just issued a restraining order -- with no appearance by the defendant -- barring McClellan from (among other things) (1) "follow[ing], ...
As public interest in judges' professional performance grows, states' use of judicial performance evaluations has been on the rise. States are increasingly institutionalizing the evaluation process, passing statutes requiring the formation of a judicial evaluation commission.
John Becknell enters the courtroom and finds his usual spot in the front row, just behind the prosecutor's table.
I'm sure you all remember Harper v Poway, the case involving a student who wore a t-shirt that said "homosexuality is shameful" and was suspended from school.
Today, July 16, is the day Internet radio providers and consumers had been dreading: the day that the new Internet radio royalty rates were supposed to take effect.
Last week, the British government agreed to introduce a new law titled the "Corporate Manslaughter Statute." This law is remarkable because it attempts to make companies--not persons--criminally responsible for deaths caused by a firm's gross negligence.
Now that the Supreme Court has recessed for the summer and last Term's decisions have been preliminarily digested, it is only natural for Supreme Court commentators to start looking over the horizon to see where the Court might be headed next.
Three years after James B. died of Hodgkin's lymphoma, his wife Nancy gave birth to the couple's first son, who was named James in honor of his late father. Two years later -- nearly six years after her husband's death -- Nancy gave birth to their second son, Warren.
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