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Chief justice ponders supreme court's declining caseload
The number of cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court is declining in part because of the lack of significant legislation coming out of Congress, Chief Justice John Roberts said at the Alaska Bar Association's annual convention. "No one actually knows why the number of cases we are taking is declining," Roberts said Thursday. Another possible reason, he said, is that circuit courts can locate previous legal decisions online in cases where they might have once turned to the Supreme Court for guidance.Defenders Fight Penny-pinching in Death-Eligible Cases
Contra Costa Public Defender Robin Lipetzky got the state Supreme Court to intervene after the county said it wouldn't fund capital defense costs until prosecutors made clear they'd seek death.The Dilemma of the Hamstrung Defendant
Michelle Merola, a partner at Hodgson Russ, and Reetuparna Dutta, an associate with the firm, argue that, because one of the few remaining areas where an indictment is open to challenge because of a matter occurring before a grand jury is prosecutorial misconduct, defendants should routinely have access to the grand jury record, including the legal instructions, after they have been indicted.View more book results for the query "*"
Murder highlights safety risks of family law
At 9:20 a.m. on June 2, Carey Hal Dyess walked into the converted single-story house that served as Jerrold Shelley's law office in Yuma, Ariz.Dyess, 73, instructed an office administrator to move out of the way and then shot and killed the 62-year-old lawyer, who had been in the process of packing up his office and retiring.Supreme Court Next Step For DOMA?
Leaders of the Connecticut Bar Association were on the winning side of the legal fight for federal benefits for same-sex couples last week, when a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a federal law defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman is unconstitutional.Trending Stories
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