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Boisterous school children, suspicious mispronunciations, and convicted misdemeanant Don Blankenship.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court decided Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt. The facts of the case are straightforward enough: does a "tool-pusher" who makes more than $200,000 per year, while working on an offshore oil rig, qualify for overtime pay? The law is, admittedly, complex. There is an…

The families argue that they should have been given an opportunity to confer with prosecutors under the Crime Victims' Rights Act before Boeing's deferred prosecution agreement was finalized.

While expressing great sympathy for the victims' families, Judge O'Connor concludes that no remedy is available for the Justice Department's failure to enforce the families' right to confer under the Crime Victims' Rights Act.

Dam removal, malicious prosecution, and pre-trial diversion.

The panel was moderated by Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho, and included former Solicitor General Paul Clement, Prof. Renee Lettow Lerner, legal journalist David Lat, lawyer Jay Edelson, and me.

Advocates for domestic violence victims were stunned by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling

Advocates for domestic violence victims were stunned by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, which continued a string of court decisions citing the Second Amendment to erase gun restrictions.

A federal court finds that women's lives are less important than a bizarre misreading of the Second Amendment

The Evarts Act of 1892 established the modern-day circuit courts of appeals.

Judges cannot take the Supreme Court's silence as a ground to subvert Supreme Court precedent.