Tag: US courts
Certain states, including Arizona, have begun scrapping court costs and fees...
Alexes Harris, University of Washington and Alex R. Piquero, University of Miami
In today’s American criminal legal system, courts...
More than two dozen cities and states are suing Big Oil...
Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous beaches to sea level rise and storm surges. Sunny-day flooding during high...
Male judges are more likely to hire women as clerks after...
Jorgen Harris, Occidental College
Despite substantial gains over the past half-century in the numbers of women working in law,...
Why $73 million Sandy Hook settlement is unlikely to unleash a...
Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University
Families of the victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School...
I track murder cases that use the ‘gay panic defense,’ a...
W. Carsten Andresen, St. Edward's University
On January 21, New Jersey became the ninth state in the nation to ban the gay panic defense, a...
Child pornography may make a comeback after court ruling guts regulations...
Gail Dines, Wheelock College and David L Levy, University of Massachusetts Boston
A federal appeals court judge just made it a lot easier for the...
Only 1 in 4 women who have been sexually harassed tell...
Margaret E. Johnson, University of Baltimore
On May 30, a grand jury indicted Harvey Weinstein on charges he raped one woman and forced another to...
Baseball teams need to protect fans from foul balls — and...
Nathaniel Grow, Indiana University
Tens of thousands of fans are gathering at Major League Baseball ballparks around the country for hot dogs, home runs, their...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
