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In en banc news, the Ninth Circuit will not reconsider its opinion that "and" does not mean "or" in a case about the First…

One of the macabre facet of Eighth Amendment death penalty litigation is that a person on death row challenging their method of execution must propose an alternative.

Man on Georgia death row: requests execution by firing squad instead of lethal injection because a medication he is taking…

Federal law bars individuals from possessing guns if they are “subject to a court order that restrains [them] from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner.” Fifth Circuit: This violates the Second Amendment as there is…

February marks Black History Month, a tradition that got its start in the Jim Crow era and was officially recognized in 1976 as part of the nation's bicentennial celebrations. It aims to honor the contributions that African Americans have made and to recognize their sacrifices.

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If you want to get a bunch of lawyers to all agree on something, try changing a court’s filing deadline from midnight to 5 p.m.

That’s what the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is proposing for electronic and in-person filings, and practicing attorneys overwhelmingly hate the idea…

Today, the en banc Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion that will give some drug defendant’s a big help at sentencing. See United States v. Dupree, No. 9-13776 (11th Cir. Jan.18, 2023)(en banc). In Dupree, the…

Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a West Texas Walmart in 2019. Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting nearly two dozen people in a racist…

A federal appeals court on Tuesday proposed putting a stop to lawyers and paralegals working up until midnight to complete briefs and other court documents due that day by setting the deadline to electronically file them at 5 p.m. (…

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts lost its bid to challenge a federal appellate court August 2022 decision rejecting a series of rules that limited political activity court workers could engage in outside of the office. (…

A prosecutor with more than two decades of big city crime-fighting under his belt will walk into the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday. But he won’t be arguing the cases at the dais; he’ll be sitting on the bench (…