By Marcia Coyle | February 24, 2021
"A hot pursuit has to be hot and the arrestee has to be avoiding arrest," Justice Samuel Alito Jr. told Stanford Law School's Jeffrey Fisher during one exchange in a key Fourth Amendment case.
By Cheryl Miller | February 16, 2021
Jon Eisenberg is accusing three justices on California's Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento of allowing some matters languish over the last three years. The court handles a heavy workload. At one point in 2018, it had the highest number of pending, fully briefed appeals per authorized justice among all state appellate districts.
By Alaina Lancaster | February 8, 2021
In a Monday opinion denying rehearing en banc of a death penalty case, 14 9th Circuit judges joined a dissent to the denial. However, both the dissents and the concurrences to the decision crossed party lines.
By C. Ryan Barber | January 20, 2021
Alan Dershowitz, a lawyer for David Tamman during his criminal appeal, failed to convince the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to scrap the prison sentence. Tamman was released from custody in 2019.
By Rachel Van Cleave | October 2, 2020
The court has agreed to hear cases that involve the enduring white supremist legacy of a Louisiana law that allowed for non-unanimous jury criminal convictions, standards for evaluating excessive use of force by police, what is required to sentence a juvenile to life without parole, and military sexual violence, says Rachel Van Cleave, a law professor and dean emerita at Golden Gate University School of Law
By Alaina Lancaster | August 13, 2020
The court decided the case was not the right vehicle to determine whether social media companies such as Facebook violate criminal defendant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights when they refuse to comply with subpoenas for users' communications.
By Ross Todd | June 25, 2020
"This decision makes clear that courts must do more than cite the pandemic as a reason to deny basic due process to criminal defendants," said Contra Costa County Public Defender Robin Lipetzky.
By Alaina Lancaster | June 24, 2020
"We've seen enough to make it difficult to shock us. But not, as it turns out, impossible," the panel said in overturning a trial judge's sentence.
By Alaina Lancaster | June 10, 2020
A state appeals court rejected a criminal defendant's arguments that an order continuing trials for up to 90 days violated his constitutional rights.
By Marcia Coyle | June 3, 2020
A series of petitions at the court now urge the justices to reconsider, restrict or abolish the judge-made doctrine of qualified immunity.
Presented by BigVoodoo
The Legal Intelligencer honors lawyers leaving a mark on the legal community in Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Consulting Magazine recognizes leaders in technology across three categories Leadership, Client Service and Innovation.
Celebrate outstanding achievement in law firms, chambers, in-house legal departments and alternative business structures.
Truly exceptional Bergen County New Jersey Law Firm is growing and seeks strong plaintiff's personal injury Attorney with 5-7 years plaintif...
Epstein Becker & Green is seeking an associate to joins its Commercial Litigation practice in our Columbus or Cincinnati offices. Ca...
McCarter & English, LLP, a well established and growing law firm, is actively seeking a talented and driven associate having 2-5 years o...
MELICK & PORTER, LLP PROMOTES CONNECTICUT PARTNERS HOLLY ROGERS, STEVEN BANKS, and ALEXANDER AHRENS