This week in the law: Texans saying “Merry Christmas,” Colorado fights Oklahoma over pot, Sony gets serious, and tax babies.
This week in legal briefs: secret charges in Iran, government arsenal distribution, and chimpanzees. We bring you the major legal events from the past week and tell you about all the interesting things to come!
This week in the law, UVA takes dramatic action toward ending sexual assault on campus, a new alternative court appears in NYC, and the Bill Cosby saga worsens.
Each week, we bring you updates on the legal world. Looking ahead… Last spring, Newsweek ran a story on an elderly recluse who allegedly founded Bitcoin, the online payment system. After the story was published, the man—Dorian…
Each week, we bring you updates on the legal world. Looking ahead… The dispute over a Texas Voter ID law has attracted the interest of the Obama administration, which on Sunday submitted pleas to the Fifth Circuit…
In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to execute people with mental disabilities. But the Court left it up to individual states to define mentally disabled. After the Texas legislature failed to agree on a definition, a decision from the Court of Criminal Appeals became the de facto definition, a definition based in part on John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men.
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Over the past 20 years, there’s been a revolution in the science of arson investigations. Many of the clues that had been used for decades to determine that a fire was not accidental, especially the analysis of burn patterns on walls and floors, have been proven to be false. Texas is one state that is re-examining arson convictions that may have been based on junk science.
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