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Here's How The New Immigration Plan Would Provide A Path To Citizenship For...
The Washington Post has the full text of the outline of the bipartisan group of Senators' proposal to provide sweeping reform to the nation's immigration system.The key bullet point in the plan is a...
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Cornell Student's Used Textbook Business Stirred Up A Game-Changing Copyright...
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule this term on a battle over international copyright law that some legal experts call the most important case of its kind in a decade.Former Cornell student Supap...
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Anonymous Threatens To Leak Sensitive Records If The Feds Don't Reform An...
Hactivist group Anonymous has hacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission in the name of Aaron Swartz, threatening to leak sensitive government documents if the feds don't reform the justice...
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Judge Sings Broadway Tune To Lament The Rudeness Of Lawyers
U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan debuted a new song about rude lawyers at a recent meeting, according to The Wall Street Journal.Sullivan sang the following to the tune of "If I Were A Rich...
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Sonia Sotomayor Has No Clue What It's Actually Like To Be A Lawyer These Days
I have a piece in Time regarding Sonia Sotomayor's recent comments regarding what a privilege it is to practice law, and how unhappy lawyers "need to go back to square one."A few additional...
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Rapper Rick Ross Was The Target Of A Drive-By Shooting In Florida
Authorities in Ft. Lauderdale have confirmed that rapper Rick Ross was driving a Rolls Royce that took fire early this morning.Someone allegedly opened fire on Ross' vehicle causing it to crash into a...
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Let's Make Criminal Cases Against Big Drug Makers A Little More Personal
Americans have long enjoyed a good villain. From Congress to Wall Street, lawyers to lobbyists, we love to hate.In some cases, we just sort of dislike what they stand for or have some “feeling,” backed...
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Kristen Bell Sues Hollywood Restaurant Over $20K Investment
Mom-to-Be Kristen Bell is currently worrying about more than just baby. According to reports, Bell and four other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against L' Scorpion, a small tequila bar and lounge located...
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Meet The Rogue Sheriffs Who Won't Enforce Obama's Gun Proposals
President Obama and Vice-President Biden met with a group of sheriffs and police chiefs this afternoon, calling them a representation of law-enforcement officials across the country as the...
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New York Ecstasy Dealer Says He Earns $4 Million A Year
Big time drug dealers risk life in prison and the inability to look themselves in the mirror, but they can get rich too.NYPost's Madeline Scinto talks with a runner and a distributor working around New...
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Guy's Fight With The TSA Over 'Magic-Marker Protest' Will Likely Go To Trial
A young Virginia man who says the TSA wrongfully detained him for writing part of the Fourth Amendment on his chest in magic marker will probably get his day in court, Wired reports.Aaron Tobey claims...
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10 American Tax Laws That Still Have Us Scratching Our Heads
Americans are known to bristle come April 15, but nearly 240 years after the founders threw a Boston Tea Party to protest unfair taxes, citizens are using less dramatic – but no less creative – ways to...
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Guantanamo Judge Furious After Surprise Censorship During 'Black Sites'...
GUANTANAMO NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Someone else besides the judge and security officer sitting inside the maximum-security court here can impose censorship on what the public can see and hear at the Sept....
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'Very Desperate' Unemployed Lawyer Turns To Craigslist
A single dad in Culver City, Calif., is begging for work as a lawyer on Craigslist, claiming he is so desperate he's willing to take basically any legal job.Here's the ad, originally posted by Above...
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Ex-Jefferies Trader Arrested And Charged With 11 Counts Of Securities Fraud
Federal officials filed criminal and civil charges against former Jefferies senior MBS trader, Jesse Litvak, 38, yesterday for allegedly defrauding investors and the government while selling...
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Gun Activists Heckled A Sandy Hook Victim's Father While He Argued For An...
Neil Heslin clutched a photograph of his son Jesse as he gave emotional testimony before officials considering tighter gun laws in Hartford, Connecticut on Monday, his voice breaking at times as he...
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Bronx Elementary School Locked Down After 'Nerf Gun' Scare
Public School 4 in the Bronx was on lockdown Tuesday morning after reports of a possible gun on campus.Thankfully the weapon in question turned out to be nothing more than a Nerf gun, according to NBC...
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These Amazing Vintage Posters, Stolen By The Nazis, Were Just Sold For $2.5...
Born in 1881, Hans Sachs began collecting posters and ads as a teenage hobby and over the years became Germany's top acquirer, with 12,500 posters in his collection.Some were painted by top artists of...
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Justice Scalia Says Schoolchildren Are Wrong When They Call The Constitution...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke Monday night at SMU's law school with his buddy and co-author Bryan Garner.At the talk, Scalia stressed that judges' decisions should "reflect the letter...
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Potential 'Cannibal Cop' Jurors Have To Answer These Sexually Explicit Questions
The case of the accused "cannibal cop" will include such graphic allegations the defense is probing potential jurors' attitudes about sex to ensure they can keep an open mind.New York Police Department...
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