"When a trial judge tells the jurors to do anything other than objectively evaluate the evidence, the court effectively creates 12 standards of review," Justice David Wecht said. Pennsylvania judges ...

Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Michael Dreeben argued his 100th case on Wednesday, and it may have been his toughest—in part because of the wild array of hypotheticals the justices threw at him and his ...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on yet another momentous legal issue – this time, the claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for claimed official acts by former ...

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Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Analysis A rule of thumb for a Fourth Amendment hearing at the Supreme Court: if the hypotheticals get extreme enough, even a ...

Well, Dr. Jason Bull has done it again. He’s managed to snag a high-dollar client without trying, solve a mystery mid-trial, maneuver the person on trial into pleading the Fifth Amendment and have a ...

We learned this week that a veteran law professor is on the hot seat after students complained his criminal law class hypotheticals involving the school’s dean were too violent, sexist and racist. In ...