More than 200 women lawmakers have signed an amicus brief backing the legal defense to "save women's sports" ahead of next week's Supreme Court oral arguments for two cases related to the issue. The ...

When transphobic lawyers filed court briefs opposing a school district’s transgender-inclusive policies, the lawyers didn’t expect the judge to reject their filing over a series of factual errors that ...

Super Bowl-winning head coach Barry Switzer and 31 Olympians have signed an amicus brief in support of the legal defense to "save women's sports" ahead of two upcoming Supreme Court cases over trans ...

Good legal writing is a lot more than simply getting the law right. The year 2025 has been a very busy one for me in terms of drafting legal briefs on some issue or another. This means that not only ...

A federal judge today dismissed the Justice Department's criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding that the acting U.S. attorney who ...

"I've signed many of them over the years," retired U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin said of amicus briefs from former jurists. "But nothing like now. Now, it's like every other week somebody is ...

Alex Murdaugh's murder case is heading to the South Carolina Supreme Court after both his defense and the state filed their final appeal briefs. Prosecutors argue Murdaugh's conviction was based on ...

Presently, there’s a closely-watched case at the Supreme Court that deals with the legality of President Donald Trump’s tariffs by calling a trade deficit an emergency. One of the friend of the court, ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please ...

When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Wednesday in the challenges to the tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in a series of ...

The Supreme Court is, apparently, reading its amicus briefs — and one of them may provide an offramp from immediately having to decide whether President Trump has the power to deploy the National ...

The Appellate Court of Maryland this week referred Bel Air lawyer Adam Hyman to the Attorney Grievance Commission after he was found to have cited fake cases in a brief generated with artificial ...