Tort law’s famous Hand Formula does not align with how laypeople judge whether conduct is reasonable. Five original experiments demonstrate that the ...

Today, most Americans accept that the jury is supposed to be a fair cross-section of the community. But where did that idea come from? This Article ...

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was charged in federal court for allegedly helping an immigrant evade ICE ...

Prosecutors technically can re-try a case after a hung jury, but generally will stop after two tries, maybe three if there’s ...

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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. A grand jury declined to indict, but U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro pushed the misdemeanor charge to a four-day trial.

The former Justice Department staffer whose thrown sandwich sparked a viral uproar was acquitted of misdemeanor assault Thursday afternoon, reinforcing growing concerns that Washington, D.C., jurors ...

Jurors are hearing evidence in the case of a Washington, D.C., man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent. The case has come to symbolize how parts of the city are responding to President Trump’s law ...

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the federal trial of a D.C. man charged with throwing a Subway sandwich at a federal agent in August during the early days of the law enforcement surge ...

DICKINSON — A North Dakota judge has nearly halved the $660 million sum Greenpeace was ordered to pay the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline in March. A nine-person jury had found the ...

The criminal investigation related to the Hope Florida Foundation has reached one of the legal system’s most secretive institutions — a grand jury. Earlier this month, two key figures related to the ...