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The Supreme Court declined to take up appeals in two criminal cases on Monday. The court is staying out of a case that involves former Blackwater security contractors convicted in the 2007 slayings of 14 Iraqi civilians at a crowded ...

A lawyer for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens said Monday that prosecutors have stopped looking after being unable to find a photo that is central to the allegations in his felony invasion-of-privacy trial. The Republican governor is charged with taking and ...

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a lawyer for a criminal defendant cannot override his client’s wish to maintain his innocence at trial, even if the lawyer’s aim is to avoid a death sentence. The justices voted 6-3 in favor ...

The Supreme Court said Monday that people who borrow rental cars from friends or family are generally entitled to the same protections against police searches as the authorized driver. The justices ruled unanimously that as a general rule someone who ...

Eric Greitens was a busy man in spring 2015. He was launching a gubernatorial campaign by calling donors to a veterans’ charity he founded. He was promoting his new book “Resilience” with the help of a university-administered grant. And he ...

Barbara Glesner Fines has been named as the permanent dean of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Glesner Fines, a member of the law school’s faculty since 1986, has been serving as interim dean since March 2017. She ...

Two lawsuits filed recently against the U.S. Olympic Committee illustrate the peril the federation finds itself in regarding its handling of decades’ worth of sex-abuse cases, while shining a light on the murky relationship the USOC has with the sports ...

Spring is the season of mystery at the Supreme Court. The courtroom arguments are done, but the big cases have yet to be decided. Is a justice retiring? (So far no.) Another puzzle this year concerns an unusual appeal the ...

Detailed accusations that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman abused women were enough to force him to resign, however, are they enough to charge him with a crime? Investigators say they are just beginning to look into the allegations made ...

Chelsea Manning is no longer living as a transgender woman in a male military prison, serving the lengthiest sentence ever for revealing U.S. government secrets. She’s free to grow out her hair, travel the world, and spend time with whomever ...

One of the purported sons of Charles Manson could soon be out of the legal battle regarding the late cult leader’s estate after failing to show up in court. Matthew Lentz, who claims he was fathered by Manson at a ...