Alan Dershowitz vowed to take his thus far failed defamation lawsuit against CNN all the way to SCOTUS, and he has — with ...

Reasoning that a 90-year-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent "controls this case and binds this court," a 2-1 appellate panel on the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia decided Tuesday to ...

ZANESVILLE − The Supreme Court of Ohio has set a new precedent in custody law due to a Muskingum County case in which a mother said she was denied due process in fighting for custody of her children.

One way to do that is by what scholars call "narrowing" precedents, such as by limiting them almost exclusively to the factual circumstances in which they arose. Critics have disparaged this practice ...

The capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has spurred comparisons to the U.S. operation to arrest and extract ...

A potentially precedent-setting legal battle aims to decide whether a railroad can use eminent domain in one of Georgia's poorest counties to build a rail spur to serve private businesses. The case ...

In law school, we’re all taught the basics of binding versus nonbinding precedent. Case law from within the applicable jurisdiction is generally binding, while case law from other jurisdictions is ...

Democratic Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter argued that the high court's emergency docket wasn’t the appropriate forum to overturn nearly a century of precedent. WASHINGTON (CN) — President Donald Trump ...

“In case after case,” Howard Bashman argued, “the statutory employer doctrine inflicts a profound injustice on Pennsylvania-based construction workers injured by the negligence of a general contractor ...

It may be Christmas and Hanukkah season, but I’ve got a Supreme Court ghost story to tell. It comes from Justice Antonin Scalia, who warned of a “ghoul in a late-night horror movie that repeatedly ...