Teams within the league compete with each other for players, coaches, fans, sponsors and even home cities and stadiums.

Citizens United will significantly alter the regulation of campaign spending, but it's hard to foresee its implications with any real confidence.

The American Law Institute, a little-known but prestigious organization of lawyers and judges, withdrew its approval for the standards created by the institute's 1963 Model Penal Code to guide juries in the choice between long prison terms and execution. What might this portend for the future of the death penalty?

Since Garcetti, circuit courts have upheld retaliation for reports of corruption, especially in police departments.

As the economic downturn continues to run its course, many law firms are hiring for various counsel positions. It is imperative for firms to carefully define each "counsel" position they choose to establish.

Procedural gamesmanship by prosecutors is not new, but proving denial of a fair trial is getting harder.

A landmark opinion holds that the use of adult homes unjustifiably prevented integration of the mentally ill into society.

An associate special counsel responds to an article's characterization of his office as "out of air," and readers critique the recent analysis of the Horne decision in this week's letters to the editor.

The treatment of native peoples is one of the darkest chapters in American history. Although nothing can be done to change that history, extending basic legal protections to residents of Indian country, equal to those enjoyed by their fellow citizens, is a modest goal.

The most effective way to teach law students how to conduct legal research is to provide hands-on training, but one of the most important tools, PACER, is off limits.

As Congress now prepares to overhaul the regulation of our financial institutions, it should straighten out inconsistencies in the remedies that our securities laws provide to defrauded investors to give them all robust federal remedies.

A formal code of conduct forbids law clerks from discussing their job duties, a code that some justices have interpreted to extend beyond the clerkship itself. Yet on those few rare occasions when the justices discuss their staffs, they vigorously (if not dismissively) deny that their clerks wield any influence over the decision-making process. Thus we are left with a mystery: If clerks do not exercise undue influence, then why all the fuss and secrecy over their job duties? Such unnecessary concealment only erodes the public's confidence in its government institutions.

Some might think it pedestrian to lament that trials are being waylaid by interactive technology in courtrooms. Yet this phenomenon has rivaled swine flu mania among the legal bar with good reason. The use of electronic devices like cellphones and BlackBerrys by jurors and witnesses, in a manner that disrupts and taints court proceedings to the level that presiding judges are forced to declare a mistrial, is serious injustice indeed.

John Demjanjuk's son and attorneys respond to Professor Harry Reicher's Demjanjuk deportation commentary.

President Obama's March 9 executive order overturning the Bush administration's limitations on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research signified the end of the Bush administration's much criticized "war on science," during which technology policy was held hostage to conservative ideology and biomedical research was viewed as an extension of abortion politics. Or so it seemed. But a funny thing has happened on the way to the counterrevolution: The National Institutes for Health, having just been granted its freedom, is threatening a partial return to Bush-era bondage.