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Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the high court, died Friday at age 93 (article available…

Without hesitation, inmates at Wake County Detention Center ran to the aid of a detention officer last week when she fell to the floor (article available here(link is external)).

According to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, the female officer was supervising a dorm when she began feeling…

Attorneys before the Fifth Circuit may soon have to inform the federal appeals court that their documents were not written using generative artificial intelligence programs and, if they were, that they were reviewed by humans for accuracy (article available here(link is external)).

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A Colorado attorney has been temporarily suspended after he used "sham" case law citations produced by the artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT in a motion and lied to a judge that an intern produced the errors, according to a state disciplinary ruling (…

Federal defenders from across the nation have argued at least one case every term except for one since at least 2000, according to Adler. Most often, it’s their first and only time in front of the justices (…

In 1963, the Supreme Court decided in Gideon v. Wainwright that, for criminal cases to be fair, defense lawyers are “necessities, not luxuries.” States must ensure that people who cannot afford defense lawyers are provided with them at government expense.

In collaboration with the U.S.…

Judge Roslynn R. Mauskopf of the Eastern District of New York will soon be stepping down from the bench and as the head of the federal judiciary's governing body, according to a Monday announcement from the nation's chief justice (…

Today the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Erlinger v. United States, No. 23-370, to decide “whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant’s prior convictions were ‘committed on occasions different from one another,’ as is…

Leilani V. Lujan has been selected as the next federal public defender for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (access announcement).  

Lujan began her four-year term Nov. 17,…

The Supreme Court on Monday morning granted cert in Erlinger v. United States, where the justices will return to a familiar statute: the Armed Career Criminal Act, which imposes an enhanced sentence for unlawful…