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Last week's ruling in California represents more than a setback for opponents of same-sex marriage. It lays bare the sparseness of their evidence, the emptiness of their legal arguments and the hollowness of their claims that gay marriage would somehow undermine straight ones.

A mere "bump in the road" is how Gov. Janice Brewer described the jolt that a judge delivered last week to Arizona's new immigration law. Actually, it's more like a head-banger.

A prison gate in Florida opened last week to free former newspaper magnate Conrad Black. (See story Page 5). The first white-collar convict helped by a new decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, Black won't be the last.

Someone sues you and wins a big ruling. Surprised at your loss, you then learn the judge owns shares in a company that will benefit from his decision. That’s supposed to be impartial? There has got to be a rule ...

As France celebrates Bastille Day today, one of its best-known citizens, Roman Polanski of Paris, has a special reason to honor the storming of a prison. Thirty-three years after he raped a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles, Polanski has been ...

If you want to see courts clogged with lawsuits by people who have suffered no harm, move to Arizona. If you hope local government will raise taxes or cut services, Arizona is your place. If you believe the U.S. Constitution ...

Once their secrets are revealed, some lawyers leave no doubt that they crossed the line and left it far, far behind. Take Scott Rothstein, who will be spending the next 50 years in a federal prison for running a $1.2 ...

The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said he was "disappointed" at the end of Elena Kagan's testimony last week, fearing she would move the U.S. Supreme Court leftward.

You know you are entering the wacky world of a judicial confirmation hearing when failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork pops up to trash the current nominee, Elena Kagan, as being insufficiently "mellow."

So President Barack Obama overdid it by slapping a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. He acted more on fear of another Deepwater Horizon explosion than on solid, articulated grounds another would occur.

Few could argue convincingly that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has excelled at its duties.