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Justin Nelson has always had a reputation as a 'go to' lawyer in high stakes litigation but his major win in the defamation claim against Fox News has just

Maryland high court rules appeals courts closed to alleged bias victims when a judge upholds the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights’ dismissal of their claims.

Wisconsin imposes a five percent tax on the sale or lease of tangible personal property, including aircraft, as well as on select services.

The Maryland Supreme Court reinstated the child sexual abuse conviction of a middle school substitute teacher who sent a student sexually charged texts.

Thank you, General Meese, for the kind introduction. I am honored to be here to deliver the Joseph Story Lecture. As General Meese said, Joseph Story had a profound influence on American law as a Supreme Court Justice and as a scholar, and I am honored to deliver a lecture in his name. I am particularly honored to be here when I look at the distinguished list of past speakers, including Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, my colleague Judge Ray Randolph, and my former colleague Jud...

Federal judges must reclaim their role in interpreting statutes and avoid the “tyranny” about which our Founding Fathers warned us.

Maryland’s criminal law provision outlawing child sexual abuse by a “parent” applies only to a biological or adoptive parent, an appeals court ruled.

Administrative law has been a greenfield for scholars for quite some time because it stands at the confluence of American constitutional law and political theory regarding the proper structure of American government.[1] Most administrative law is made not by Congress, but by the federal courts, particularly the Supreme Court of the United States.

A second panel at the Court of Appeals has ruled Indiana courts lack legal authority to alter the gender marker on the birth certificate of a transgender individual.

Rickie Foy was among a group of individuals whose attempt to forcibly break into a Chicago ATM during summer daylight hours was recorded by the machine’s security camera.