attorney could learn of a juror's prior litigation history. But with the advance of Internet technology and Missouri's subsequent implementation of an automated court record system through Case.net, Missouri attorneys now have a free and potentially easy means to search a prospective juror's ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Friday that it will hear a case brought by families from Maine who want to use a state tuition program to send their children to religious schools.
Sonia Sotomayor associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2009. She was the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The daughter of parents who moved to New York City from Puerto Rico, Sotomayor was raised
NEW DELHI, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Indian government's chief legal advisor and its primary lawyer in the country's top court, Attorney General K.K. Venugopal, Tuesday said the issue between Chief Justice of India (CJI) and four dissenting judges of the Supreme Court was yet to be resolved...
The Division of Property and Unmarried Cohabitants: The Supreme Court Draws a Line in Nova Scotia (Attorney-General) v. Walsh This is a brief commentary on the Supreme Court of Canada's 2002 decision in Nova Scotia (Attorney-General) v. Walsh, a case challenging the constitutional... N La...
On 16 June 2016, the US Supreme Court delivered an opinion addressing the appropriate standard for the attorney fee shifting provision of the Copyright Act, 17 USC § 505. Writing for a unanimous court, Justice Kagan agreed with the 'objective reasonableness' standard employed by the District Cou...
Supreme Court and his elevation to chief justice. From 1953 to 1969 Rehnquist practiced law inPhoenix, Arizona. In 1969 Pres.Richard M. Nixonappointed him assistantattorney generalof the Office of LegalCounselfor the Department of Justice, a post in which he distinguished himself as a staunch ...
Breyer, whom she worked for as a Supreme Court clerk, Jackson will also be the only currently sitting justice that has experience as either a trial court judge or a defense attorney. And while her background is unique, the educational journey Jackson took to the high court was somewhat ...
John G. Roberts, Jr., 17th chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Nominated as chief justice by President George W. Bush, he was confirmed by the Senate in September 2005. He was known as an institutionalist who promoted a view of the Court as
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's governor is slated to swear in a judge who will become the first African American to serve on the state's high court.