By Andrew Denney | April 6, 2024
The new report, co-authored by the watchdog group Scrutinize and the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at the New York University School of Law, identifies judges who had sentences reversed or reduced from 2007 to 2023 and includes tallies of how many years were reduced from their sentencing determinations.
By Jimmy Hoover | April 5, 2024
Stanford's Joseph A. Grundfest says his percentages-rich method involves more than simple "nose counting."
By Avalon Zoppo | April 5, 2024
While it's likely too early to see major swings in the law, the president's appointees' individual opinions on criminal law and qualified immunity show the impact the judges' diverse professional backgrounds have on their jurisprudence.
By Stephen Masciocchi and Tina Van Bockern | April 5, 2024
A recent Tenth Circuit opinion underscores the procedural requirements to preserve issues for review in both the trial court and on appeal.
By Brian Lee | April 2, 2024
Three parties are embroiled in budget negotiations into the new fiscal year that began on Monday.
By Cedra Mayfield | March 28, 2024
"[H]e lives in Chattanooga with his new bride and thus is ineligible to hold Georgia office," said attorney Julie Oinonen of Williams Oinonen in Atlanta,.
Connecticut Law Tribune | Commentary
By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board | March 27, 2024
By enacting the proposed discovery rule, Connecticut would fall in line with several other states that have adopted such a provision, the editorial board writes.
By Jimmy Hoover | March 27, 2024
When the text of the Constitution "does not tell us the answer...we usually look to history," Justice Brett Kavanaugh said. "We might not like it, but unless we're just making it up, I don't know where else we're going to look."
By Kate Brumback and Russ Bynum | The Associated Press | March 27, 2024
A panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that followed a national outcry over the Black man's killing. The appellants' lawyers argued that evidence of past racist comments they made didn't prove a racist intent to harm.
By Riley Brennan | March 26, 2024
Ohio had two definition of "motor vehicle," one that applies to traffic laws, and one that applies more broadly to various chapters of state law and criminal laws, the opinion said.
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