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The court’s sentence in the Texas "affluenza" case was irrationally disproportionate.

In the late evening on August 15, 2016, a 12-person jury in Norristown, Pennsylvania, unanimously convicted state Attorney General Kathleen Kane of two counts of felony perjury as well as a host of misdemeanor charges.

A recent research article looked at how lawyers in court questioned children about timing issues. Prior research has shown that children, particularly young children...

Consider the following factual scenario: A national retail and/or grocery business suspects that one of its customers is shoplifting.

A story from California illustrates a couple of important principles that youth organizations should follow when dealing with disclosures of long-ago abuse.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) generally has the administrative inspection authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act...

This is so even when the testimony was compelled by a foreign government in full accordance with its own law." Id. at 38.

In an opinion published on October 8, 2025, the Second Circuit vacated an order of forfeiture, holding that defendant Matt Elias could not be ordered to forfeit property...

Universally endorsed for publication by the ABA Criminal Justice Section Council, the Task Force recommendations urge the nation's nearly 5,000 private and public colleges and universities to adopt...

When renowned violin master and teacher Roman Totenberg passed away in 2012 at the age of 101, he died believing that his treasured Stradivarius violin was stolen following a 1980 performance in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and that it would never be recovered.

On October 21, 2025, U.S. Senators unveiled a bill that would increase reporting thresholds for currency transaction reports ("CTRs") and suspicious activity reports ("SARs")...

New York, N.Y. (August 14, 2019) - Supplementing our July 16 Client Alert, New York's Child Victims Act (CVA) takes effect today after having been signed by Governor Cuomo on February 14, 2019.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether courts analyzing Eighth Amendment Excessive Fines Clause challenges should consider the gravity of a defendant's specific wrongdoing or evaluate the underlying offense purely in the abstract. This case, arising from Alaska's forfeiture of a $95,000 plane for transporting three cases of beer to a dry community, could significantly impact how courts assess whether government-imposed fines are grossly disproportional to offenses. The decision may have far-reaching imp

When the Chief Justice joins an affirmance in criminal cases, she averages 3.49 questions to appellants and 1.53 questions to respondents.

Yesterday, we reviewed the data on Justice Kilbride's oral arguments in civil cases. Today, we're looking at the criminal cases.

This week, we're reviewing Justice Liu's question patterns.

Yesterday, we began our analysis of the Chief Justice's question patterns in civil cases from 2008 through 2016. Today, we address the Chief Justice's patterns in criminal cases.

For the past several posts, we've been reviewing the jurisdictions where the Illinois Supreme Court's civil and criminal cases originated.