A Lawrence resident is among three nominees chosen to fill the upcoming vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Henry ...

Justice David K. Overstreet of the Supreme Court of Illinois has begun an application process for an at-large circuit judge vacancy in the Fourth Judicial Circuit.

Maine's highest court has shot down a 2021 law that allowed people to file lawsuits over claims of child sex abuse, regardless of when the abuse was alleged to have occurred. State lawmakers agreed ...

At his first State of the Judiciary address, Nebraska Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Funke discussed challenges facing courts ...

Robert Dupuis and 12 other people filed lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland alleging sexual abuse when ...

Congress shall make no law …. abridging the freedom of speech or of the press…” —First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution During the oral argument before the Supreme Court in the famous Pentagon ...

When Justice Douglas asked the government lawyer if the phrase "no law" in the First Amendment literally means no law, he was unable to answer. The court found his mumbo jumbo reasoning so telling ...

North Dakota’s highest court has ruled that the state’s overturned abortion ban will not be enforced during an appeal of a ...

Two federal judges had enjoined the newspapers from publishing the documents, and the Supreme Court was hearing appeals by the newspapers. When Justice Douglas asked the government lawyer if the ...

Doesn’t the Constitution mean what it says? Doesn’t no law mean no law? Regrettably, today, no law means whatever the court ...

“We are pleased that the state Supreme Court today affirmed that stance ... it might follow the course recommended by Oklahoma Justice Douglas Combs, who argued in a brief concurring opinion ...