by HolAdmin | Oct 8, 2026 | American Legal News
Being late for jury duty is annoying. Getting arrested for it, in front of everyone else waiting to be questioned in a capital murder case, is something else entirely. On Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor used the Supreme Court’s denial of cert in Mulkey v. Alabama to...
by HolAdmin | Oct 8, 2026 | American Legal News
Under normal circumstances, there are good reasons why the government keeps a lid on investigation materials that don’t pan out. Accusations are not findings, and we don’t want to brand someone based on an ultimately fruitless inquiry. After all, casting someone as...
by HolAdmin | Oct 8, 2026 | American Legal News
Last week, a D.C. Superior Court judge made sure the Trump administration can never again prosecute David Hearn for touching a piece of the Reflecting Pool that was already falling off. Now Hearn’s lawyers want to know how the case happened in the first place. On...
by HolAdmin | Oct 8, 2026 | American Legal News
There are many ways to rank law schools, but the way that the National Jurist’s preLaw Magazine does it is quite interesting. Rather than concentrating on the prestige factors that usually dominate law school ranking systems, this ranking focuses solely on factors...
by HolAdmin | Oct 7, 2026 | American Legal News
Samuel Alito Isn’t Retiring, But He’d Like Republicans To Vote Like He Might: Nothing gets the base out like a vacancy that may or may not exist. Today, I’ll Be Performing A Monologue From…: Judge James Ho elevates his desperate audition for the Supreme Court by...
by HolAdmin | Oct 7, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who spent four decades as Washington’s consummate insider — a St. Louis lawyer turned White House counsel who advised every Democratic president from Truman to Carter, masterminded an upset reelection,...
