2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (669+ words) That provision, which Congress enacted as part of the Gun Control Act in 1968, applies to anyone who has been convicted of a crime punishable by more than a year of incarceration. The original version made it a felony for such…...

5+ day, 49+ min ago   (631+ words) A federal appeals court ruled that a Texas woman can't sue two Santa Fe police officers who pinned her face down on a fire ant hill while she was handcuffed, causing her to receive hundreds of painful bites to her…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (58+ words) From Dep't of Health v. Lawler, decided Sept. 1 by Florida Administrative Law Judge Robert Cohen: On or about January......

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (22+ words) Law schools will still voluntarily follow the standard, and the Department of Education will still remove the ABA's accrediting authority...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (46+ words) The district court had thrown out the case with no opportunity to file an amended complaint; the Ninth Circuit agrees that plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the claim, but allows them to refile an amended complaint to "cure the standing…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (355+ words) From Judge Michael Newman (S.D. Ohio) Friday in Moorman v. Doe No. 1; since this is a decision at the......

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (820+ words) [A.] I know lots of people have opinions about the Lindsay Clancy trial, and I wanted to pass along the......

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (46+ words) (to oversimplify slightly); so a Magistrate Judge concluded in case where defendant "posted a video to a blog allegedly depicting Plaintiff 'as Adolf Hitler by adding a Hitler mustache to Plaintiff's photograph and engaging in oral sex with a journalist....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (11+ words) Look, there's an attorney fee award. Oh my god!...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (172+ words) The majority didn't decide whether the construction violated federal law, only that plaintiffs' purely aesthetic interests didn't allow them to assert a federal claim....