Same-sex couples waited in line for hours Wednesday to apply for marriage licenses on the first day same-sex unions became legal in Washington D.C. The nation’s capital is now the sixth place in the...

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed an appeal Wednesday regarding a court decision that restricts a North Carolina county from opening public meetings with prayers calling on the name of a deity. In...

Former U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth W. Starr is leaving his post as dean of Pepperdine University Law School to become president of Baylor University, both schools announced Monday. Starr, who has been dean of...

An Oklahoma County judge ruled a 2009 law that would ban abortions on the basis of the fetus’s gender and require women seeking abortions to fill out a survey is unconstitutional. District Judge Daniel...

Law Firms

ABA To “Examine” Law Rankings As U.S. News Justifies Scheme »

ABA To “Examine” Law Rankings As U.S. News Justifies Scheme During last week’s midyear meeting, the American Bar Association House of Delegated narrowly passed Resolution 10A that would “examine” the way law schools and law firms are ranked.  The ABA specifically called...

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Liberty Counsel Files Brief Supporting Privacy for Signers of Marriage Petition »

Liberty Counsel Files Brief Supporting Privacy for Signers of Marriage Petition

An Amicus Brief was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday seeking the court to protect the...

Same-sex marriage legal in Washington, D.C. »

Same-sex marriage legal in Washington, D.C.

Same-sex couples waited in line for hours Wednesday to apply for marriage licenses on the first day...

N.C. County Will Appeal Ruling That Censors Prayer »

N.C. County Will Appeal Ruling That Censors Prayer

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed an appeal Wednesday regarding a court decision that restricts a...

High Court Rules Excessive Force Claims Must Be Decided On Nature Of Force »

High Court Rules Excessive Force Claims Must Be Decided On Nature Of Force

The United States Supreme Court ruled Monday that excessive force claims must be decided based on the...

Liberty Counsel Files Brief Supporting Privacy for Signers of Marriage Petition »

An Amicus Brief was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday seeking the court to protect the privacy rights of individuals who want to repeal a law that gives all the privileges of marriage to same-sex partners in Washington State. Liberty Counsel, a “nonprofit litigation, education and policy organization,” filed the brief seeking the court to...

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Liberty Counsel Files Brief Supporting Privacy for Signers of Marriage Petition

N.C. County Will Appeal Ruling That Censors Prayer »

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed an appeal Wednesday regarding a court decision that restricts a North Carolina county from opening public meetings with prayers calling on the name of a deity. In the case, Joyner v. Forsyth County, federal judge James A. Beaty ruled on January 28 that Forsyth County’s invocation policy is unconstitutional. ...

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N.C. County Will Appeal Ruling That Censors Prayer

Liberty Counsel Files Brief Supporting Privacy for Signers of Marriage Petition »

An Amicus Brief was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday seeking the court to protect the privacy rights of individuals who want to repeal a law that gives all the privileges of marriage to same-sex partners in Washington State. Liberty Counsel, a “nonprofit litigation, education and policy organization,” filed the brief seeking the court to...

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Liberty Counsel Files Brief Supporting Privacy for Signers of Marriage Petition

Russia Bans Highest-Grossing Video Game »

Last Tuesday, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, blasted past 300 million dollars in sales on its opening day, become the highest-grossing launch in all entertainment categories, ever.In its first day, the new video game sold 4.7 million copies and racked up 310 million dollars in sales in the United States and Britain alone when...

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Russia Bans Highest-Grossing Video Game

Kenneth Starr Leaving Pepperdine Law School to Become President of Baylor University »

Former U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth W. Starr is leaving his post as dean of Pepperdine University Law School to become president of Baylor University, both schools announced Monday. Starr, who has been dean of the law school for five years, made national attention when he investigated President Clinton during the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals.  He also...

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Kenneth Starr Leaving Pepperdine Law School to Become President of Baylor University

Verdicts & Settlements

High Court Rules Excessive Force Claims Must Be Decided On Nature Of Force

High Court Rules Excessive Force Claims Must Be Decided On Nature Of Force »

The United States Supreme Court ruled Monday that excessive force claims must be decided based on the nature of the force rather than the extent of the injury. The Wilkins v....

USDA Will Pay $1.25B To Black Farmers »

USDA Will Pay $1.25B To Black Farmers

The Obama administration announced Thursday it will pay out $1.25 billion settlement in order to resolve a decade long dispute by black...

Court Rules Legally Blind Law-Grad Can Use Device For Bar Exam »

Court Rules Legally Blind Law-Grad Can Use Device For Bar Exam

A federal district court judge ruled that a legally blind law-school grad who sued the National Conference of Bar Examiners can use adaptive...

International

Haitian Judge Rules: Release Baptist Missionaries »

Haitian Judge Rules: Release Baptist Missionaries

The Haitian judge has said Thursday that he will recommend the 10 U.S. Baptist missionaries be released while the investigation continues as...

Chinese Gov’t Monitors Text Messages For “Illegal” Content »

Chinese Gov’t Monitors Text Messages For “Illegal” Content

As the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in the United States addresses the first case of “sexting,” the Chinese government pressured one...

Haiti judge frees 8 missionaries, keeps 2

Haiti judge frees 8 missionaries, keeps 2 »

A Haitian judge decided today to release eight of the ten American missionaries, who have been held since Jan. 30 on accusations of kidnapping 33 children. “I am extremely disturbed that...