By Brian Lee | April 12, 2023
"We strongly support the continuation of the present system of merit selection," the New York County Lawyers Association said in a statement.
By Allison Dunn | April 12, 2023
"Because the PCR court utilized a faulty analysis to conclude there was no merit to the speedy trial claim, it did not analyze counsel's strategy in failing to assert Winchester's right to a speedy trial at any stage of the proceedings," Associate Justice Catherine R. Connors wrote on behalf of the unanimous court.
By Avalon Zoppo | April 11, 2023
The controversial issue of excluding unvaccinated jurors cropped up in a number of high-profile trials in the last two years as courts began reopening their doors.
By Brian Lee | April 11, 2023
The proposal, just being mulled, would copy the federal appointment system and bypass a nominations commission.
By Jane Wester | Emily Saul | April 11, 2023
The complaint, which was filed by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner Ted Boutrous, described Jordan's efforts as a "transparent campaign to intimidate and attack District Attorney Bragg."
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Law Journal Editorial Board | April 9, 2023
We don't need the latest massacre in Tennessee to recognize that states like ours and our neighbors have the need and the right to determine who can bear arms.
By Jason Grant | April 6, 2023
Making both statutory and equal-rights arguments, two lawyers, including one from the ACLU, argued before Michigan's high court that an unwed former same-sex partner should qualify as a legal "parent" to a child she and her former partner agreed to have, via in vitro fertilization, but is no longer allowed to see.
By Mark A. Cuthbertson and Matthew DeLuca | April 6, 2023
The Supreme Court's recent decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton was the death blow for the Lemon test and existing Establishment Clause jurisprudence. In its place, the majority mandated the court's apply a 'history and tradition' test, drawing dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Yet this historical approach to defining constitutional rights is becoming a hallmark of the current majority, with the potential to disrupt the status quo on a wide range of constitutional issues.
By Riley Brennan | April 4, 2023
The Washington State Supreme Court affirmed the termination of a mother's parental rights, holding it hadn't been a Fifth Amendment violation for the court to "draw a negative inference from the mother's refusal to answer specific questions about her drug use."
By Avalon Zoppo | April 3, 2023
The complaint alleges that during Charles Mack's breaks at the prison commissary, the guards would make noises, kick boxes and talk loudly when Mack, a Muslim, tried to perform his prayers.
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