Oral argument occupies a privileged place in appellate mythology. It is often described as the moment when judges engage counsel, probe weaknesses, and decide close cases. In modern appellate ...

An appeals court weighs Christopher Shaw's claim of alleged excessive force that paralyzed him during his 2021 arrest in ...

All four Big Law firms fighting President Donald Trump’s executive orders will make their arguments against the directives on the same day, an appeals court ruled Friday.

An Ohio appeals court has rejected efforts to completely undo the state law that includes Ohio’s six-week abortion ban, but left untouched the ruling that struck down the ban itself following voter ...

The Court of Appeals will hear arguments in a murder case in which a defendant was denied a mistrial after a trial court admitted testimony indicating a history of domestic violence – something the ...

Opinion: Paul Clement's effective presentation in Trump v. Cook highlighted several tips that appellate advocates can ...

We hope the court recognizes that they were hearing a number of misrepresentations and that they will carefully read the ...

Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. The state Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in multiple civil and criminal cases, plus the ...

A fight over a small but controversial weapon has pushed the Second Amendment back to center stage in the federal courts. A three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit has just heard arguments on ...

A federal appeals court heard arguments over a Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms statewide ...

The Kansas Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for Wednesday in the cases of Reginald and Jonathan Carr.