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Alabama ended 2024 with six executions conducted for the year, with half of them using the controversial method of nitrogen gas hypoxia (access…

This unpublished per curiam opinion from the Fifth Circuit—affirming a denial of qualified immunity—gives no hint of the…

Married guy with 3 kids and a household income of around $300 a week underreports that income to get food stamps. In 1995. Gets 3 years' probation. Otherwise has a clean record. Can that constitutionally bar him from owning a firearm today?…

Allegation: Harrisburg, Penn. detective misrepresents and omits key facts in order to get man charged with a bevy of serious and not-so-serious crimes after 2017 shooting. Some charges are dropped, and he's acquitted of all the rest after spending 18 months in jail. Can he sue Detective Jacob…

This en banc Tenth Circuit case has a little something for everyone. Bickering over en banc procedure as the court sua sponte…

President Joe Biden’s number of lifetime appointments to the federal bench surpassed the first Trump administration’s Friday and set records as the most diverse selection of judges by any president in U.S. history, according to federal judiciary observers (…

In a White House press release issued today, President Biden announced that he is commuting the sentence of 37…

In a White House press release issued today, President Biden announced that he is commuting the sentence of 37 of 40 individuals on federal death row.  These clients will have their sentences reclassified from execution to life without the possibility of parole. President Biden's "actions…

Under settlements approved last Tuesday, the federal government must pay an average of 1.1 million to each of 103 women who sued the Bureau of Prison over their treatment at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California. BOP announced earlier this month that it was permanently…

A U.S. federal judicial panel has endorsed giving public defender programs greater organizational independence within the federal judiciary, a structural shift that would grant lawyers for indigent defendants greater control over their budgets, staffing and policies (…