Once in a while, we’ll come across an article that just simply defies us. It’s typically not that such a piece is too legally complicated to discuss, rather that it stands on its own in some way, defying commentary, a paean to logic-defyi...

You had to suspect this would happen. You’d have to expect that the Supreme Court, having opened the Second Amendment box last term with its Heller opinion, would have to weigh in on the topic again soon to clarify what it might view as any mis...

We can barely wait for next week. Yes, there’s a little matter called the MLB playoffs, in which our beloved Angels will have their hands full with those dreaded Boys from Beantown. But of even greater cause for excitement: the opening of the...

Just a smidge of Scotus news to get you caught up on today, LBers, starting with some of an unpleasant nature: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Washington Hospital Center on Thursday when she fell ill at the court after being treated for a...

An observation: Product-liability claims against pharmaceutical companies are sort of like the U.S. mail. Come rain, snow, sleet, hail, boom-times or recessions, the claims just keep on coming. It’s bad news for Big Pharma, but good news for la...

In a few months time, the Supreme Court will revisit the Second Amendment in McDonald v. City of Chicago, which challenges a gun-control ordinance in the city. Not surprisingly, the case is attracting heavy interest around the country. The...

How much information should be known about who has abortions–and why they do it? What if the questions are so specific that they might reveal the identity of the woman involved? The state of Oklahoma is being forced to grapple with those questions...

<img src="http://online.wsj.com/media/birkenfeld_CV_20091127110150.jpg" alt="birkenfeld"/ align="right"/>The tale of former UBS banker Brad Birkenfeld has taken many twists since June of last year, when it was revealed he had been helping U.S....

Getting a murder conviction overturned is quite a feat. But an individual who gets two unrelated murder convictions wiped away is, well, almost unheard of. This morning’s Legal Intelligencer includes the intriguing story of Zachary Wilson, who...

Foreclosures. Assaults by family members. Contract disputes. Evictions. Unpaid bills. Not surprisingly, those are the issues in recession-related cases that have deluged this nation’s courts in record numbers. As 2009 winds down, NYT put together this...