(Photo by Staci Zaretsky)The Supreme Court has a rich and fascinating history well worth studying, and that's why President Joe Biden recently appointed the dean of one of the most elite law schools i...
[photo1]Yesterday, a Big Lie dead ender in Arizona got sanctioned, along with their lawyer. Nope, not Kari Lake ... another one."Arizona's courts have emphasized that sanctions should be awarded only ...
[photo1]After the NRA's wildly successful lobbying to turn the Second Amendment into an absolute individual right was emboldened by the Bruen decision, several states have been toeing the line to dete...
[photo1]David Sargent, an attorney and former faculty member at Loyola University Chicago's School of Environmental Sustainability, was indicted on insider trading charges. Prosecutors said Sargent re...
[photo1]Young federal judges are pulling the plugs on their lifetime appointments left and right -- and the latest to do so is heading to greener pastures, at least money wise, at one of the most succ...
(Image via Getty)Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman's How Appealing blog, the Web's first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories...
(Photo by Staci Zaretsky)[There's] very little that an advocate for the little guy can hope to accomplish anymore. Once it got to a six-member supermajority, so that even if you could find the...
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Donald Trump's sparklemagic lawyer Alina Habba is very upset that anyone would suggest that her client Donald Trump would grab women by the ... genitals. The very ne...
[photo1]Last week I wrote some initial thoughts on the Supreme Court hearing in Gonzalez v. Google. Of course, as lots of people mentioned, it was tied at the hip with another case, Taamneh v. Twitter...
[photo1]The Biden administration now seems more likely than not to win the cases. [Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar's] preparation, poise and power were impressive. It was like the differe...
A few weeks ago, disgraced FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried was in danger of losing his bail package and potentially being jailed until October. The court was fed up with trying to monitor Bankman-Fri...
[photo1]2020 was a wild time. COVID was a thing, the police were handing out public executions to people over cigarettes, and people were using their newfound free time to exercise their fundamental r...
Tomorrow is the day that Meta expected would finally end its Cambridge Analytica woes. That's when a US district court in California is scheduled to preliminarily approve a $725 million settlement agr...
[photo1]The individual who has had the largest impact on the federal judiciary is probably Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society mastermind. Through his network of nonprofit advocacy group -- and more r...
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)The lede in most media coverage about this case is that Judge Andrea Bouressa dismissed the Texas state bar case against Kraken Queen Sidney Powell based on "numero...
[photo1]The pandemic changed society in a number of ways, but in terms of our working lives, the biggest impact of COVID was the ubiquity of working from home. That ushered in a number of other trends...
[photo1]Reed Smith partner A. Scott Bolden represented former Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, but the latest controversy revolves around Bolden's actions. Reed Smith attorneys have since wit...
Family court (by David Lat).On February 13, 2023, the Seventh Judicial District of the State of Oklahoma issued a pretty shocking Letter Ruling determining that a sperm donor was the legal parent to a...
[photo1]On this week's podcast, we discuss a North Dakota law firm sued its associates and won, seeking to clawback paychecks for failing to meet billing requirements during the pandemic. Wasn't there...
(Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Comedy Central)In order to avoid further litigious distractions by Mr. Baldwin and his attorneys, the District Attorney and the special prosecut...