Statutory rape laws may seem cut and dry, but a recent case in Nebraska may make you want a refresher course on the legal process. On Tuesday in Falls City, Nebraska, a 22-year-old man was scheduled ...

On August 5, 2020, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed into law a revised version of Georgia’s mechanics’ and materialmen’s lien statute. Under the new law, a claimant’s submission of a statutory lien ...

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My colleague Sam Bray, who is one of the nation’s leading remedies experts, and also someone whose judgment I very much trust, passes along this note highly ...

I often see people assuming that sex with under-18-year-olds is a crime (statutory rape); for instance, some comments on the 17-year-old gets help in lying about age to get abortion; later, she and ...

Speaking about a court case filed into torture to death in detention, but closed due to statutory limitations, lawyer Kılıç says, “There is no need for additional legal regulations for the ...

Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan discussed what she described as “remarkable” changes in interpretation of statutory law in a conversation with law professor John F. Manning ’82 during an ...

The state’s highest court on Tuesday upheld an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions. A PDF version of this document with embedded text is available at the link below: IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE ...

In December, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a series of amendments that made significant changes to the requirements for statutory powers of attorney in the state of New York. The changes, as discussed by C ...

Legal malpractice principles arose in medieval common law. It is linked with and has become more clearly intertwined with ancient deceit statutes with the Court of Appeals’ determination that ...