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"Some bankers are too big to fail or jail" This series began in 2009 with a post about the intervention of A.G. Holder on beha...

In the first post of this series we talked about a mock trial of the type law schools hold each year for their students' edification. ...

Almost three years ago Dredd Blog did a piece on the reason for the requirement of juries in our Constitution. In that post we pointed ou...

As to jury trials in the courts, my definition of an expert has always been " one who is paid more than an average person to give an op...

Those who know about jury trials know that a jury often has to decide which "expert" has it right. The BP Deepwater Horizon ca...

Richard Nixon and those of his ilk, such as Pat Buchanan on MSNBC's Morning Joe, think that law is politics and politics is law when po...

Obama was criticized for overpowering the Attorney General's Office. Thereafter Obama finally got it, for a fresh and good change, a...

A lot of people are talking about whether those who torture should be held to answer. Government officials have been saying yes and no. But ...

"... lay down your money and you play your part" (Springsteen). Eric Holder is this week's hero of Orin Hatch and the House...

You have done nothing negative to your house for years. But your equity in it, what you use as a measure of what you are financially worth...

In Tarrant County, Texas a three person jury determines the value of real property if the home owner challenges the value assessed by the Co...