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Ranking of Politics of Supreme Court Justices Shows 4 of 5 Most Conservative Now on Court
Ranking of Politics of Supreme Court Justices Shows 4 of 5 Most Conservative Now on Court :: Rational Judicial Behavior: A Statistical Study

ABA Journal: Study Labels Thomas Most Partisan Justice, Scalia Most Activist
The ABA is reporting on a study by Law Professor Cass Sunstein that concludes: “A law professor?s study of court decisions concludes that Justice Clarence Thomas is the Supreme Court?s most partisan justice and Justice Antonin Scalia is the most activist...

Re-playing the Old Argument About Activist Judges
With just a month to go, conservatives are finally deploying their favorite election scare tactic: vote Republican because Democratic presidents appoint activist judges.This argument is wrong on many levels...

Disqualifying Judges through Contributions
In his Sidebar column today in the NYT, Adam Liptak spotlights a forthcoming study of judicial voting in Louisiana by Tulane prawf, Vernon Palmer. Palmer thought it improper that the Justices on Louisiana's Supreme Court failed to recuse themselves in cases where they received campaign donations from one of the litigants...

Interviews of United States Supreme Court Justices
In Series of Videos, Supreme Court Justices Make Their Case - Justices' candid observations and pet peeves spill forth in...

Tulane Law Review's Flawed Empirical Study
A flawed empirical study published in the Tulane Law Review has draw the ire of the blogging community as well as the Louisiana Supreme Court Justices. In, The Louisiana Supreme Court in Question: An Empirical and Statistical Study of the...

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

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

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

BPA
New Study Shows Link to Diabetes and Heart Disease

Operating Room Fires
Hundreds Injured During Surgery, New Report Shows

Procrit
Associated with Death in Stroke Study

Xigris
Study Prompts FDA Safety Review

US Reality TV Shows
Reach Tentative $4 Million Settlement

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million