Law

The technological development of the internet opened the door for a new information era.  Digital content is instantly accessible by billions of people, worldwide.  ...

In his majority opinion, Justice Hugo Black divulges what he and his colleagues determined were the reasons the government used to justify the decision ...

For many people, the death penalty seems like some sort of strange holdover from medieval times: with the outdated notion that killing a criminal ...

The criminal justice system is such a wide and varied field that at times it seems impossible to decide which issues should receive the ...

In a political system where the judiciary holds the power to keep both the executive and the legislative branches in check, each and every ...

Same-sex marriage is legally recognized in jurisdictions throughout the United States. Indeed, by August 2013, several states and counties authorized the issuance of marriage ...

On September 29, 1921, government agents Cronenwett and Scully attempted to purchase liquor from the two defendants, Carroll and Kiro, and a third party.  ...

The defendant used a rented room in a friend’s home for the operation of a marijuana grow room. After agents observed the defendant making ...

A police officer observed defendant Terry and another individual in what he believed was the commission of a daylight robbery.  The officer approached the ...

The legal system of the United States has countenanced capital punishment since the nation’s inception, with the exception of a brief period from 1972 ...