Tag: US courts
Trump administration’s lie detector campaign against leakers is unlikely to succeed...
Brian O'Neill, Georgia Institute of Technology
The Trump administration has recently directed that a new wave of polygraphs be...
Trump is not a king – but that doesn’t stop him...
Shannon Bow O'Brien, The University of Texas at Austin
Heads of state are the symbolic leader of a country....
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...