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Opinion | The Supreme Court and the New Civil War
The battle between the White House and blue states raises questions about the limits of federal authority.
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Bill Cosby’s lawyer falls asleep during testimony
As rapt jurors listened to the judge overseeing Bill Cosby’s sex assault retrial read back prior testimony, the entertainer’s lead lawyer snoozed in his chair. Tom Mesereau, mouth open, drifted in and out of consciousness Wednesday as Judge Steven O’Neill read pages and pages of Cosby’s own words about Quaaludes and his sexual contact with accuser Andrea Constand into the record. Cosby, now 80, sat for the civil deposition over 2004 and 2005, in connection with a lawsuit Constand filed against him that would later be settled for $3.4 million.
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Opinion | Justice Scalia’s Fading Legacy
Using legislative history to interpret laws once risked tiptoeing over the hot coals of his scorn. No longer. Now justices use it without apology.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Opens Up About MeToo, Voting Rights, and Millennials
The Supreme Court justice talks #MeToo, Millennials, and the cases she’d like to see overturned.
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Charles Manson Grandson Wins Legal Battle Over Cult Leader's Body
At least three people claimed that they had a legal right to dispose of Manson's body. His remains have been stored in California's Kern County since his death in November.
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'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent
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Every lawyer in Utah received a picture of naked breasts from the state's Bar association
Just after 3 p.m. on Monday, all attorneys in the state of Utah received a shocking email from the bar association.
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Allergan was blasted for its unusual Mohawk patent license, and now it's a total flop
After months of criticism that even spilled into a judge's opinion in a separate case, Allergan's Restasis patent deal with the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe just didn't work. Thanks to a Friday ruling, the blockbuster eye drug has to face the very patent challenge Allergan sought to prevent.
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When the Supreme Court Doesn't Care About Facts
The conservative justices seem prepared to decide Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, a case that could harm public sector unions, without so much as a factual record.
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We All Must Live With Mitch McConnell’s Proudest Moment
A Supreme Court case on public-sector unions is a reminder of why it matters how Justice Neil Gorsuch landed on the court.
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Tempers Flare as Panama Hotel Owners Try to Oust Trump Company
A bitter struggle between a Trump Organization hotel business and the owners of the Panama City hotel that carries the Trump name escalated on Monday when the Panamanian authorities announced that they had begun a formal investigation into the dispute. The country’s Public Ministry said in a brief statement that it was looking into whether there had been any “punishable conduct” in the matter. The decision came in response to a complaint filed with the ministry on Friday accusing Trump executives of illegal “encroachment” on the property, the ministry’s statement said.
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The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas
With new evidence that he lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it’s time to take the idea seriously.
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On Tour With Notorious R.B.G., Judicial Rock Star
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s off-the-court schedule is full, with at least nine public appearances over three weeks.
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Judge throws out 'diplomatic immunity' argument in rent dispute
Diplomatic immunity doesn't apply to rent bills, according to an Ontario Superior Court justice who on Friday sided with an Ottawa landlord in an unusual legal spat over a luxury townhouse. Last year, Rolf Baumann got a judgment from the Landlord and Tenant Board requiring Betsy Zouroudis, who works at the U.S. Embassy, to pay thousands of dollars in back rent and legal expenses.
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Neil Gorsuch Is a Terrible Writer
The Supreme Court justice’s prose is exhausting to read and impossible to take seriously.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows Trump she isn't going anywhere, hiring a full slate of law clerks for the 2019 term
So much for speculation that the notorious RBG was ready to pack up her law books.
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People Are Fighting Over Charles Manson’s Body
There are multiple claims for the notorious killer’s remains, his property or both. A California court will soon take up the matter.
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Opinion | Two Ways of Looking at Gerrymandering
Stepping into the political sphere, the Supreme Court takes up two very different cases involving the redrawing of Congressional lines.
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Why courts could rein in executive power – after decades of allowing it
The legal pushback to President Trump's travel ban is part of a growing number of legal challenges in recent years to the expansion of presidential power.
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Kid Rock is being sued by a circus
...OK, not just a circus but the circus: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is suing Kid Rock for infringing on its famous "The Greatest Show On...
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