By Katheryn Tucker | November 10, 2017
In a footnote, Chief Judge Stephen Dillard cited a paper Justice Keith Blackwell wrote 20 years ago as a law student in which Blackwell said the Georgia Supreme Court—of which he is now a member—may have "misconstrued" the law.
By Tom McParland | November 9, 2017
Attorneys from the Delaware Department of Justice on Thursday attacked a prisoner lawsuit stemming from the Feb. 1 takeover of James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, saying the "broad and undefined" allegations failed to link current and former state officials to supposed abuses at the prison in the wake of the deadly ordeal.
By Colby Hamilton | November 8, 2017
Attorney-in-Charge Seymour James reflects on his decades in the Queens legal aid office, the biggest challenges facing his successor and the job being done by Queens DA Richard Brown's office.
By Katheryn Tucker | November 8, 2017
Georgia State University law school professor Tanya Washington and Emory University law school professor Barbara Woodhouse speak of the constitutional rights of children to be free from discrimination in an amicus they co-authored.
By Cogan Schneier | November 7, 2017
The groups say Katsas, a White House lawyer and former Jones Day partner, is unable to be independent from the executive branch.
By Greg Land | November 7, 2017
The Georgia Supreme Court threw out a portion of the state's gang statute, and the Georgia Court of Appeals turned down prosecutors' requests to allow hearsay from a child's doctor in a child molestation case where the mother and alleged victim left the country.
By Leigh Jones | November 6, 2017
With calls for stricter gun control growing louder with each mass shooting—including Sunday's massacre of 26 people at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas—here's a look at the law firms that have handled much of the litigation in recent years for the National Rifle Association.
By P.J. Dannunzio | November 6, 2017
A document indicating that a prison guard allegedly encouraged an inmate to commit suicide, though misfiled by an attorney and unseen for almost a year, should have been allowed in a mother's lawsuit against the prison, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The American Lawyer | Commentary
By Vivia Chen | November 2, 2017
How did these men (no women, of course) beat the odds? And what advice do they have for young lawyers of color?
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Martin A. Schwartz | November 2, 2017
In his Section 1983 Litigation column, Martin A. Schwartz explains how a series of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court has brought us to the point that even the most blatantly unconstitutional conduct by prosecutors is frequently not redressable under §1983.
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