Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) In Hunter v. United States, to be argued on Tuesday, March 3, the Supreme Court will address how broad ...

The Court of Appeals has expanded the types of claims that survive an appeal waiver to include facial constitutional ...

The past year has introduced some uncertainty for institutional defendants facing privacy breach class actions in Canada. While Ontario’s Court of Appeal has been consistent in its approach to class ...

A North Carolina appeals court has tossed out a convict’s attempt to challenge his prison sentence, ruling that he cannot claim he was unfairly deprived of an appeal when the reason his lawyer failed ...

A defendant had a salty way of telling an Oregon judge that the magistrate had made a mistake. An appeals court agreed with his premise -- while not his language -- and overturned four contempt ...