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Criminal Justice

Voluntarily intoxicated rape victims aren’t ‘mentally incapacitated,’ top state court rules

Election Law

Georgia governor signs bill overhauling state’s elections

Practice Management

Law firm leadership and facilitating meaningful conversations about diversity and inclusion

Criminal Justice

Secret camera recordings can be used against nanny at trial, state supreme court says

Criminal Justice

They didn’t commit new crimes, but they’re going back to prison

Litigation Management

Plenty of options when it comes to litigation fact management software

Death Penalty

Virginia becomes the first Southern state to eliminate the death penalty

Supreme Court Report

As madness moves through March, SCOTUS considers NCAA case over athlete compensation

U.S. Supreme Court

Roberts, Kavanaugh join with liberal justices to rule for woman shot by police while fleeing

U.S. Supreme Court

Kagan cites Ford’s ‘truckload of contacts’ with plaintiffs’ home states in jurisdictional SCOTUS ruling

Law in Popular Culture

‘Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’ and the problem with internet sleuths

Second Amendment

Gun owners have no unfettered right to carry their weapons in public, en banc appeals court says

Women in the Law

What is holding women lawyers back?

News Roundup

Afternoon Briefs: Judge irked by ‘60 Minutes’ interview; Caesars sues insurers for pandemic losses

Criminal Justice

Federal prosecutor is removed from criminal cases after allegations of witness pressure

Election Law

Law gives Congress more authority in vote count than Constitution allows, op-ed says

Labor & Employment

Yale prof claims she was wrongly fired after tweeting about Trump, Dershowitz, shared psychosis

Legal Education

Hiring decisions based on first-year grades miss ‘exceptional students,’ according to new paper

Criminal Justice

DA says she will toss 74,800 criminal cases because of lab fiasco

The Modern Law Library

In ‘The Watergate Girl,’ Jill Wine-Banks gives an inside look at the special prosecution team that brought down Nixon

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