Last week, we began our review of the individual Justices' patterns in oral arguments, reviewing the data on Justice Anne M. Burke's questioning in civil cases from 2008 to 2016.

Yesterday, we reviewed the data on Justice Burke's question patterns in criminal cases. Today, we ask a related question:

Our review of the Court's oral arguments between 2008 and 2016 continues this week with Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald.

Then, in April 2014, the DOJ offered to settle its claims against the Bank for a $610 million payment.

For the past several weeks, we've looked at the Court's record with death penalty appeals.

Last week, we began reviewing the government's winning percentage in civil appeals. We began by reviewing the data for the years 1990-2003.

Yesterday, we reviewed the year-by-year data for how the Court's civil caseload was distributed in the Appellate Court for the years 2004 through 2010.

For the past two weeks, we've been reviewing the patterns in Chief Justice Fitzgerald's questioning in civil and criminal cases between 2008 and his retirement in 2010.

Last week on both the Illinois Supreme Court Review and this blog, we tracked recusals, year-by-year in civil cases.

Yesterday, we began our review of the Court's experience with recusals in criminal cases since 1994. Today, we review the second half of the data.

Yesterday, we surveyed where the California Supreme Court's certified question appeals arose. Today, we turn to a different question: what areas of law do the Court's certified questions arise in?

Last week, we looked at what can be inferred from the patterns of Chief Justice Karmeier's questions in civil cases between 2008 and 2016.

Last week, we looked at the data from the past nine years' oral arguments in civil cases, analyzing how Justice Garman's vote, and whether or not she's in the majority, impacts her question patterns.

Last week, we analyzed the pattern of Justice Thomas' questions in oral arguments in civil cases.

This week, we turn our attention to Chief Justice Fitzgerald's patterns in criminal cases.

Last week, we reviewed the data on the originating jurisdictions of the California Supreme Court's civil cases between 1995 and 1999.

Yesterday, we began our year-by-year review of where the Court's civil cases have originated since 1994.

Yesterday, we looked at the court's experience with amicus briefs in criminal cases for the first half of our study period, 1994-2005. Today, we look at the data for the second half of the period.

On July 21, 2017, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law a bill that places new restrictions on retailers' collection and use of information collected when a customer's identification (ID) card is scanned.

Television dramas have consistently shown us that authorities do not negotiate with kidnappers and they refuse to pay ransom. "Ransom", a television series on CBS, portrays a team that works to resolve ransom cases, including in the recent season finale, ransom demanded by a hacker.