The judge acknowledged a legacy of racism in a legal win for Douglas Stankewitz, who was first convicted in 1978 of murder.

Common sense” reasoning is becoming more common at the Supreme Court. The justices have explicitly relied on common sense to ...

Three Washington state protesters have been found guilty of federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of a bus taking people to an immigration detention center in Takoma. Jac Archer, Justice ...

Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions ...

Researchers say generative AI is making it dramatically easier for people to file lawsuits, even as legal professionals are getting caught submitting hallucinated cases.

Learn how petitions function in legal cases, their role vs. complaints, and see real examples in court proceedings.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is portraying its new prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey as not unlike dozens of other cases faced by individuals who have hurled threats at public ...

The Justice Department announced charges Tuesday against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging the storied civil rights organization defrauded its donors by funding the extremism it claimed to be ...

Devin Stone turned punchy legal explainers into a YouTube empire. Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration scandals is distorting reality itself. Devin Stone never intended to ...

A 62-year-old Albuquerque man claiming a chronic lifelong disability contended he’d been retaliated and discriminated against by his former employer in 2023. Among the damages sought in his pro se ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- Seventy-five years ago, a landmark legal case, McKissick v. Carmichael, paved the way for desegregating higher education in North Carolina and set the stage for Brown v.

After deliberating for nine days—and emerging at one point to tell the judge that it was having a difficult time reaching a decision—a jury in Los Angeles finally returned its verdict today, finding ...