Punitive Precision

Defense Lawyers Say New Jury Instructions Are Needed to Target Arbitrary Awards

Jun 1, 2004 10:37 PM CDT

Tough Call

Despite the Dangers, There Can Be Benefits to Putting a Defendant on the Stand

Jun 1, 2004 10:14 PM CDT

Subduing The Snarl

Pit Bull Approach Undermines the Higher Aspirations of Law Practice

May 1, 2004 9:23 PM CDT

What’s the worst experience you’ve had dealing with your own expert witness?

May 1, 2004 4:45 PM CDT

The Court Comes Together

A New Chief Justice Led a Fractious Supreme Court to Unanimity in Overturning Segregation

Apr 1, 2004 9:37 PM CST

Making Brown Real

A North Carolina Family Fought Threats and Intimidation After Suing to Integrate Schools

Apr 1, 2004 9:25 PM CST

Are Schools Returning to the 1950s?

A Harvard Study Shows Mixed Results in Integration, With Many Public Schools Becoming More Polarized

Apr 1, 2004 9:22 PM CST

Showing His Stripes

Disgruntled Defendant Disrupts Decorum by Donning Disguise to Demonstrate Disgust

Apr 1, 2004 5:20 PM CST

Too Much Information?

County Clerks Tussle With Nervous State Officials Over Posting Court Records Online

Apr 1, 2004 5:18 PM CST

Taxes ‘R’ Ours

Suits Challenge Loophole That Lets National Corporations Dodge State Taxes

Apr 1, 2004 5:17 PM CST

Gambling On Casino Cases

Compulsive Rollers Are Suing the House, Betting That Courts Will Find Casinos Liable

Apr 1, 2004 5:15 PM CST

No Time To Waste

The First 30 Seconds Are Your Best Chance to Sway Judge and Jury

Apr 1, 2004 5:12 PM CST

Brown at 50

A quarter century ago, while attending a 25th anniversary celebration of Brown v. Board of Edu­cation, Constance Baker Motley was met at an Ala­bama air­port by a college student who was assigned to pick her up and take her to the event. Now a senior U.S. district judge in New…

Apr 1, 2004 5:02 PM CST

Antitrust American Style

Prosecutors Fear Their Cartel-Busting Efforts Will Fizzle if U.S. Courts Are Opened to Global Price-Fixing Litigation

Apr 1, 2004 5:00 PM CST

Sizing up Attorney Fees

TIPS Task Force Responds to Calls for Regulation of Contingent Fees

Mar 19, 2004 8:54 AM CST