Legal Research

a stifled dissent . . .
State Supreme Court Bans Sitting Justice From Filing His Dissent The Mississippi Supreme Court ordered one of its sitting justices not to publish his dissent with the Court's majority decision...

Sitting State Supreme Court Justice Ordered Not To Issue Opinion
Justices Tell Colleague Not to Publish His Opinion. Unprecedented? is a very interesting August 22, 2008 Wall Street Law Journal Blog story. Remarkably, the Mississippi Supreme Court ordered another sitting Justice, Justice Oliver Diaz not to publish his dissent with...

Life Imitates Art in Mississippi Supreme Court
In an unprecedented action, the Mississippi Supreme Court attempted to bar the publication of a dissenting opinion by a sitting Supreme Court Justice. The case is a wrongful death case called Mississippi Veterans Affairs Board v...

Scathing Comments Exchanged Between Justices of Michigan Supreme Court.
The attached dissent was filed by an associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court following the recent election of the Court’s Chief Justice.  The accusations are serious...

OTR Dissent in Mississippi
Can a dissent be off the record? It can in Mississippi. Last week a majority of the state supreme court denied a fellow justice his dissent. He wrote it, but it was not made public or filed with court documents...

Dissent-ion in the Court: First Mississippi, Now Texas
In August, we imagined it was quite rare — if not “a first” — for a court to prevent one of its members from filing a dissent. We can’t call it a trend yet, but perhaps the practice is catching on...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Anna Nicole Smith's Legal Troubles
Court cases and legal issues related to Anna Nicole Smith

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Katrina Victims See Justice, Ruling Paves the Way for Class Actions
Katrina Victims See Justice Ruling Paves the Way for Class Actions

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Tomato Salmonella
Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim.

National Association of Realtors
Settlement reached in broker listing antitrust lawsuit, pending court approval.

Missouri Attorney General's Office
$26,000 settlement reached in disability discrimination lawsuit, pending court approval.