This story originally published on March 1, 2025. It includes descriptions of sexual abuse. In 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic began its rampage, a recent law school graduate started a new job in ...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th District has voted 2-1 to send a lawsuit against the Hudson School District back to the Circuit court for further proceedings. The case, Patterson v. Hudson ...

The power imbalance between judges with lifetime tenure and the young law clerks who work alongside them is both vast and unique to the judiciary. People in the federal court system don't have the ...

The courts largely police themselves. That's because judicial independence – and protecting the balance of power – give judges a tremendous amount of sway over their own workplace rules. At the same ...