By Adolfo Pesquera | October 20, 2022
The alleged defamatory statements by Dickson have been occurring in the context of his organization's campaign to get city councils to enact local abortion bans via municipal ordinances.
By Marcia Coyle | October 19, 2022
"There is a person on death row where the totality of evidence questions the conviction and the state doesn't have faith in it. If those facts are not important enough to engage the Supreme Court, I don't know what is," said Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza.
By Marcia Coyle | October 19, 2022
Plaintiffs have filed lawsuits challenging the program in a number of jurisdictions.
By Adolfo Pesquera | October 7, 2022
Justice Alvarez asked, "If you can't prosecute them, why are you filing charges?" -- Schulman for the state said, "That's a very good question. I cannot answer that. Would I agree that there's very little logic in this? Yes, but these dockets exist."
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Peter Brown | October 7, 2022
Two states, Texas and Florida, enacted legislation to control social media companies' discretion in removing controversial political, medical and opinion speech. Both sets of laws were subject to immediate legal challenges and this column has followed the progress of these litigations.
By Adolfo Pesquera | October 4, 2022
"Here, precedent provided Roper with fair notice that using deadly force on an unarmed, albeit non-compliant, driver held in a chokehold in a parked car was a constitutional violation beyond debate." - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
National Law Journal | Commentary
By Tony Mauro | September 30, 2022
Chief Justice Warren Burger died in 1995, but efforts to write the biography of his life and legacy have taken time.
By Avalon Zoppo | September 30, 2022
The majority said there's no evidence attendees in the judge's courtroom are coerced into participating in the prayer ceremonies. A dissenter accused the panel of "willful blindness."
By Adolfo Pesquera | September 29, 2022
"If we ruled that the legislature could give the Attorney General the unfettered power to prosecute all election cases, we would be giving every future Attorney General the power to bring possibly fabricated criminal charges against every candidate running for public office ... who disagrees with the Attorney General's political ideals," Judge Scott Walker said.
By Andrew Goudsward | September 29, 2022
The founder of the far-right Oath Keepers group and four of its members stand trial beginning this week in the most highly anticipated trial yet arising from the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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