The Supreme Court today (July 31) reiterated that in the absence of criminality, a civil and criminal case cannot be allowed ...

In cases involving parallel criminal and civil proceedings, the "offensive use doctrine" discussed in Denton usually is not in play because it is most often the defendant, not the plaintiff, who ...

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Discovery Differences in Civil and Criminal Cases In a federal civil case, both plaintiffs and defendants may use an array of discovery tools, pursuant to the civil rules of procedure, to obtain ...

In order to protect his right against self-incrimination in the criminal case, Alec Baldwin is asking a judge to put on hold a civil suit filed against him and other defendants by a script ...

A Rains County man is sharing his story after two local judges, now facing criminal indictments for official oppression and ...

Looking at American tort law as of 1871 (when Congress enacted the Ku Klux Klan Act, of which Section 1983 was a part), the court found that American courts and treatises were largely in agreement: A ...