Litigation

Supreme Court to hear prosecutor immunity, EPA regulation cases
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] Monday granted certiorari in two cases [order list, PDF], including Van de Kamp and Livesay v. Goldstein (07-854) [docket; cert...

A capital punishment SCOTUS preview from DPIC
As highlighted by this post at SCOTUSblog, 'tis the season for Supreme Court previews. Helpfully, the Death Penalty information Center provides this case preview of the current SCOTUS capital docket: To date, the Court has granted certiorari in three death...

Atlantic Yards Condemnation Could Be Making Its Way to the U.S. Supreme Court
On March 31, the Plaintiffs in Goldstein v. Pataki, 516 F.3d 50 (2nd Cir. 2/1/2008) (see a summary of the case on this blog at: http://lawoftheland.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/second-circuit-upholds-use-of-eminent-domain-for-controversial-atlantic-yards-project) filed a petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the U...

Argument Previews Available in Kennedy, Davis
Extensive argument previews are now available on SCOTUSwiki for two of the most closely-watched arguments of the final sitting of this Term: Kennedy v. Louisiana, on the constitutionality of administering the death penalty as punishment for child rape, and Davis v...

High Court to Examine Limits of Prosecutorial Immunity
Should the wrongfully convicted be able to sue the prosecutors whose errors contributed to their confinements? That’s an issue that the Supreme Court agreed to review last week when it accepted cert in Goldstein v...

ABA Review: the Supreme Court’s OT07 Criminal Docket
As we mentioned here earlier, several panels at this year’s meeting of the American Bar Association looked back at the recently completed Supreme Court term. One of those panels looked back specifically at the OT 2007 criminal docket, a subject we’ve also previously looked into...

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

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.

Rutland School District
Double pay offered as part of class action wage dispute settlement, pending court approval.