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The D.C. Court of Appeals today threw out the first-degree murder conviction of Eric Gardner because the trial violated his Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesse...

The D.C. Court of Appeals today upheld the armed robbery convictions of a man who argued that his videotaped confession should be thrown out because police officers had, ...

D.C. Councilman Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) no longer has to worry that a photo used in a 2008 campaign advertisement will come back to bite him. In a ruling handed down today,...

By Jeff Jeffrey and Julio Menache Gay McDougall, the United Nations’ independent expert on minority issues, was given the D.C. Bar’s highest honor, the Thurgood Marshall ...

In response to a D.C. Court of Appeals decision last year on legal fees paid in advance, the D.C. Bar’s Legal Ethics Committee issued an opinion today outlining how those...

The D.C. Bar’s Litigation Section jumped into the debate over the District’s budget today, issuing a statement opposing Mayor Adrian Fenty’s proposed cuts to the civil le...

Federal judges cannot use a greater likelihood of rehabilitation to justify a longer prison sentence for a criminal defendant, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeal...

The U.S. Justice Department this week won a partial victory against Deloitte LLP when a federal appeals court in Washington ordered additional proceedings in the governme...

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Jonathan Adler pointed to an opinion issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday, in which the court refreshingly fo...

Last Friday, in NRDC v. EPA, the Court of Appeals for the D.C....