The Blackbook Legal Blog

From Bloomberg : Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says he will continue the state's role in a legal challenge to the federal heal...

From the Seattle Times : A Clackamas [Oregon] man has filed a federal lawsuit over what he says is his First Amendment right to express hims...

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission should be stale news to you by now. The new debate is how the disappointed executive and l...

Historians in Philadelphia were perusing some of the more than 21 million documents in the Historical Society of Philadelphia's collecti...

Maybe . As the New York Times reports: A 44-year-man whose lawyers claim he is mentally retarded is scheduled to be executed Thursday eveni...

California just can't get a break. From the LA Times : Less than four months after California leaders stitched together a patchwork bud...

Do this: open another tab, and play this clip in the background before reading. Did you do that? Alright, on to the main show. What happens...

Question: Whether prior statements made by an alleged murder victim and another, separate missing victim to family and friends in letters ca...

From the LA Times : Today, a [constitutional] convention moves an important step closer to reality as Repair California -- the coalition spe...

Here's an interesting ConLaw question: Can States "stand in the shoes" of people who owned World War II war-bonds and failed t...

Oh, the difference one word can make. John Salzano had been accused of converting hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds from his fathe...

Things have not been going well for California. Despite the State's efforts to balance its budget and reform its tax system , revenue ...

Am I the only one who wonders what has become of the media? Even the supposedly reputable news outlets have become glorified tabloids. As ...

From the Guardian : Italy was cast back into political turmoil tonight when the country's constitutional court threw out a law passed by...

Please welcome the latest invasion of our privacy. It’s called Pay As You Drive (PAYD) auto insurance. The concept is a simple one: a cust...

The California Supreme Court has provided notice of its forthcoming opinion in Strauss v. Horton , the case testing Proposition 8's lega...

As the world waits for the California Court's Proposition 8 decision (the demise of which may be " refuted on InTrade "), ano...

The Supreme Court today in Arizona v. Gant , 556 U.S. ____ (2009), limited its holding in New York v. Belton , 453 U.S. 454 (1981), which he...

Back in March, Josh reported that the Supreme Court would be hearing the Safford United School District v. Redding case regarding the cons...

If you've been too busy obsessing (or lamenting ) over the "results" of the new US News Rankings , you probably missed the big...