In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law
The U.S. is the only country in the world that sentences people to die in prison for offenses committed while under the age of 18.
Illegal pot producers and sellers have found a champion in U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions: If Sessions gets his way, he could be refueling their business and refilling their bank accounts.
51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp’s NHL expansion team might be at the head of the conference pack, but the rights to its name are in dispute once again.
A Chinese-exclusion case from the 1880s set a precedent that haunts the legal fight over Trump’s travel ban.
What do horror icon Michael Myers, Marvel superhero Blade, Batman ally Nightwing, post-apocalyptic antihero Snake Plissken and alien Ferengi Quark have in common? They’re all stars of local 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp productions, part of the burgeoning subculture of fan films, amateur movies and web series featuring big-name pop-culture characters, produced without the permission (or, often, knowledge) of the corporate ownership.
What do horror icon Michael Myers, Marvel superhero Blade, Batman ally Nightwing, post-apocalyptic antihero Snake Plissken and alien Ferengi Quark have in common? They’re all stars of local 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp productions, part of the burgeoning subculture of fan films, amateur movies and web series featuring big-name pop-culture characters, produced without the permission (or, often, knowledge) of the corporate ownership.
Congress and the White House spent much of this week trying to fix the problem President Donald Trump created in September when he abruptly canceled Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that provides renewable two-year deportation protections and work permits to undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as youths.
Progressive groups cried foul when a federal judge released Cliven Bundy last week, but others say justice was served - even if the debate continues over federal control of public lands.
A federal judge in California last week ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program – or DACA – must continue despite President Donald Trump’s vow to stop the program unless Congress can agree to legislation by March 5.
The Nevada rancher accused of leading an armed standoff that stopped federal agents from rounding up his cattle in 2014 walked out of a courthouse in 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp a free and defiant man Monday, declaring that his fight against U.S. authority is not over.
It started four years ago, when Cliven Bundy and his sons refused to pay federal grazing fees and stared down government agents in an armed standoff outside their Nevada ranch.
President Donald Trump gets his first physical since taking office on Friday, but Americans may not find out much about the health of the 71-year-old chief executive with a taste for McDonald’s and an aversion to exercise beyond golf.