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  • Trump taps conservative Judge Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court

    Trump taps conservative Judge Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court

    Attorneys in the News 02/03/2017

    President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Gorsuch, a fast-rising conservative judge with a writer's flair, to the Supreme Court, setting up a fierce fight with Democrats over a jurist who could shape America's legal landscape for decades to come. At ...

  • Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house

    Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house

    Practice Focuses 01/23/2017

    The Supreme Court will hear a case in which people arrested for having a party in a vacant house sued police for violating their constitutional rights and won. The justices said Thursday they will review lower court rulings in favor of 16 people who ...

  • Kyrgyz court confirms life sentence for journalist

    Kyrgyz court confirms life sentence for journalist

    International 01/23/2017

    A court in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday upheld a life sentence for an ethnic Uzbek journalist in a case that has drawn international criticism. Azimzhan Askarov was convicted in 2010 for stirring up ethnic hatred, a charge related to ethnic unrest in the so...

  • Appeals court rules against Kansas in voting rights case

    Appeals court rules against Kansas in voting rights case

    Political and Legal 01/23/2017

    Thousands of prospective voters in Kansas who did not provide citizenship documents will be able to vote in the November election under a federal appeals court ruling late Friday that upheld a judge's order.   The decision from the U.S. 10th Cir...

  • Court: Asylum not automatic for former gang members

    Court: Asylum not automatic for former gang members

    Immigration Law 01/23/2017

    Immigrants in the United States illegally are not automatically eligible for asylum on the basis that they are former gang members who risk persecution if they return home, a federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday. Three judges from the 9th U.S....

  • Brother of San Bernardino shooter guilty in immigration case

    Brother of San Bernardino shooter guilty in immigration case

    Immigration Law 01/23/2017

    The brother of one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack pleaded guilty Tuesday in an immigration fraud case stemming from the probe into the killings. Syed Raheel Farook entered the plea in federal court in Riverside to one count of co...

  • Columbia Law Review

    Columbia Law Review

    Law Reviews 01/23/2017

    The Columbia Law Review is one of the world’s leading publications of legal scholarship. Founded in 1901, the Review is an independent nonprofit corporation that produces a law journal edited and published entirely by students at Columbia Law S...

  • Trinity Law Review

    Trinity Law Review

    Law Reviews 01/23/2017

    Trinity Law Review is a student-run journal that has published legal scholarship since our founding in 1980. Short of actually printing the journal onto paper, students run the entire process—including selecting articles for publication, editin...

  • California Western Law Review

    California Western Law Review

    Law Reviews 01/23/2017

    One of the most valuable learning experiences available to law students is being a member of their law school's law review. Both the California Western Law Review and the California Western International Law Journal are student run and publish schola...

  • Pace Law Review

    Pace Law Review

    Law Reviews 01/23/2017

    Pace Law Review, edited by students at Pace University School of Law, is devoted to the study and publication of scholarly materials of professional legal interest. Each issue contains articles by professors, practitioners, and judges, as well as stu...

  • Southwestern Law Review

    Southwestern Law Review

    Law Reviews 01/23/2017

    The Southwestern Law Review is a student-edited quarterly journal that publishes scholarly articles and commentary on the law contributed by prominent jurists, practitioners, law professors, and student members of the Law Review staff. Participation ...

  • Loyola Law School Law Reviews

    Loyola Law School Law Reviews

    Law Reviews 01/23/2017

    Loyola Law School students edit and publish three printed law reviews: the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, the Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review and the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review...