by: Robert Weisberg, David Alan Sklansky, Q&A with Sharon Drisco According to an email that Donald Trump Jr. himself shared with the public, he was approached by one of his father’s former Russian business partners with an offer from a senior Russian government official to provide the Trump campaign with…

by: David Freeman Engstrom Statutory procedure cases are strange animals. Procedural matters are low political salience, so there’s rarely clean legislative history. And we often lack ironclad empirical evidence about the consequences of rule choices before the Court fully adopts them. As a result, the Court is effectively free to…

Michael Flynn’s lawyers have now “agreed” that the documents he has been withholding from Senate investigators are not protected by the Fifth Amendment. Better late than never. But the wonder is how the American press has close to universally misunderstood this issue for weeks. With one exception, the Washington Post…

First-year law students quickly learn that procedure matters, and the enormous impact of procedural rules is nicely illustrated by the patent venue dispute addressed by the Supreme Court last week. On the surface, TC Heartland v. Kraft simply concerned 28 U.S.C. …

Judging by the media coverage, the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Inc. will have dramatic implications for producers and consumers of patented products around the world. The decision places “sharp limits on how much control patent holders have over how their products are used after…

The Supreme Court yesterday delivered a unanimous victory to a client of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic in an immigration case. Juan Esquivel-Quintana is a lawful permanent resident who came to this country from Mexico with his family when he was a young boy. Several years later, he pleaded guilty…

As Congress considers President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts, over a thousand legal academics are protesting one defunding decision that threatens America’s deepest commitment to equal justice under law. Trump has proposed cutting all but $33 million in funding for the federal Legal Services Corporation [LSC], down from current levels…

The May 22 SCOTUS decision Cooper v. Harris found that North Carolina Republicans relied too heavily on race when they drew two congressional voting districts, affirming that the “Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents a State, in the absence of ‘sufficient justification,’ from ‘separating its citizens into different…

It was announced this week that Robert S. Mueller III, the former F.B.I. director, will oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. …