The verdict of more than $37 million won Friday by the family of Korryn Gaines against Baltimore County police is one of the largest ever against law enforcement officers in Maryland. Legal experts question whether they will actually see all that money, the Baltimore Sun...
More than a month before the shooting rampage at a South Florida high school, the FBI received a warning that the 19-year-old charged in the massacre might carry out an attack at a school, but investigators failed to act, the Washington Post reports. The disclosure...
We expect orders from the February 16 conference on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. There is a possibility of opinions on Wednesday at 10 a.m. The court will hear oral argument on Tuesday in Currier v. Virginia and City of Hays v. Vogt and on Wednesday...
After the 2012 Newtown school shootings, Connecticut legislators set out to draft some of the nation’s toughest gun measures. They significantly expanded an existing ban on the sale of assault weapons, prohibiting the sale of magazines with more than 10 rounds and requiring the registration...
Carnival Cruise Line characterized the recent brawl on the Carnival Legend as limited, isolated and unprecedented. But anyone who follows the cruise industry knows that these type of fights which occur on Carnival ships are hardly rare or isolated. There literally are dozens of videos...
Is there a resurgence of debtors’ prisons? Some district judges and court officials argue that jailing people over unpaid fines is within the confines of the law, but the American Civil Liberties Union believes that such practices are illegal, harm those jailed and waste public...