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Houston adult entertainer Chanel Nicholson takes her racial discrimination case against Houston area strip clubs all the way to the Supreme Court. Using an ancient civil rights statute that guarantees equal rights to black workers, she sued the clubs claiming that they improperly applied a quota to strippers at the...

In Jones v. Hendrix the Supreme Court barred the use of a 2241 petition to avoid the prohibition on successive 2255 petitions where there was a subsequent change in statutory interpretation. This causes a major hurdle for defendants where there is a subsequent change in the law post conviction and...

In the unanimous Supreme Court decision, Ruan v. United States, the Supreme Court struck down the application of objective standards as a vehicle for opioid prosecutions against physicians accused of unlawful prescribing. The Supreme Court paves the way for a more tailored approach to measuring physician conduct.

The top pick on President Biden’s very short Supreme Court nomination list goes to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson a former public defender, advisor to the sentencing commission, and D.C. District and Circuit Judge.

I’ve been waiting 10 years to see how the government attones for the circuit split in physician opioid prescribing cases, and today is the day. The Government filed its brief in Ruan v. United States, the single most important physician prescribing case of our time which will have a profound...

113,000 Japanese Americans were arrested by their government during Japanese internment. One took his case all the way to the Supreme Court. And while it took over forty years to obtain justice, he won. This is the story of Fred Korematsu.