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A Norman, Okla., woman possessed a constitutionally protected privacy interest in a video depicting her rape, which a police officer showed to a television news crew that later broadcast portions of it, a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit ...

Glenn T. Harrell Jr., judge for the Court of Appeals, coordinates the Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource Center program in Maryland. He and 22 other judges recently graduated from the program intended to train them to hear scientific cases. ...

Possession is nine-tenths of the law. That layperson’s legal maxim was the decisive factor in a dispute over a collection of papers from two Civil War-era South Carolina governors. In a decision handed down late last month, the U.S. Court ...

A billboard-sized advertisement from a business law firm pledges that it is different from all the rest. In fact, it’s a whole new breed of law firm. The law firm Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson in Minneapolis is banking on ...

A defendant whose private conversations with his attorney were recorded on audiotape and videotape may sue Pelican Rapids, Minn., and three of its police officers for violating his civil rights, a U.S. District Court judge ruled last week. Pelican Rapids ...

Brookside lawyer and University of Missouri-Kansas City professor Sean O’Brien accepts letters from inmates professing their innocence. He is most notably known for his work to help free wrongly convicted Joe Amrine and Ted White. Photo by Matt Frye Sean ...

If, as English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon was heard to say some 400 years ago, “knowledge is power,” then some large law firms should be feeling empowered these days. Boston’s Goodwin Procter has been advertising for a “knowledge management manager” ...

President George W. Bush resubmitted six appellate-court nominees, who earlier drew objections from Democrats, for Senate consideration in the waning days of the Republican majority. The Senate returned the six appeals-court nominees to the president in late September, when Congress ...

Pakistanis, American charged with marriage fraud Four Pakistani nationals were arraigned in federal court Wednesday after being indicted, along with another Parkistani national and a U.S. citizen, for marriage fraud. Robyn Adele Raja, 52, Qammar Ulzaman Raja, 47, Riaz Ahmed, ...

Citgo sued for price fixing, OPEC influence Citgo Petroleum Corp., the U.S. refining unit of Venezuela’s state oil company, was sued by a group of customers who claim it conspired with OPEC to fix prices in the United States. The ...

Sometimes it pays to fight City Hall. St. Peters resident Brian Hodak, an outspoken critic of former Mayor Tom Brown and his administration, and his wife, Karla Hodak, were forced to close their bar after the city revoked its liquor ...