and canon law, the prohibition against double jeopardy came into the United States Constitution from English common law. According to Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England ...

In United States v. Aiello, the Second Circuit (Raggi, Chin, Sullivan) remanded the cases of Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, Louis Ciminelli, and ...

The Supreme Court has tapped a former clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor to defend a lower court ruling in next term’s Barrett ...

The US Supreme Court appointed Williams & Connolly partner Charles McCloud to argue in a case in which the federal government ...

Read's lawyers had argued that she was actually acquitted on two of the counts against her, citing post-trial statements from ...