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At least that is what Pine County, Minnesota Sheriff Robin Cole told the Associated Press in this story about a man who said he accidentall...

As our Reader(s)™ might have gathered from prior posts, I did not go to law school straight from college. Instead, I kicked around for sever...

Last week, I posted about an execution in Arizona where the condemned prisoner took almost two hours to die. Part of the post, and the comm...

We haven't yet discussed the latest legal challenge to Obamacare, which is now in the news thanks to conflicting decisions issued by the...

Michael Kiefer of the Arizona Republic has a story about witnessing the execution of Joseph Wood on Thursday afternoon.  I recommend you re...

It is by now well known that Judge Richard Posner is a cat person . It is perhaps somewhat less well known that his love of cats has infect...

According to the Washington Post , the Executive Order signed by President Obama to prohibit workplace discrimination against gay, lesbian, ...

Following up on our earlier discussion (wherein sparks flew), I thought I'd direct your attention to this open letter sent by 50 law p...

A  recent New York Times op-ed extols the supposed virtues of unsupervised childhood. The argument in the op-ed is essentially that letting...

When I was spending a few months over at the Minneapolis City Attorney's office, the big issue in misdemeanor criminal defense was ...