Not too long ago it was still a relatively novel idea for large law firms to sponsor or otherwise sanction blogging by their member lawyers or allied professionals. Now GeekLawBlog has a running total of 141 such blogs from 56...

In a stinging rebuke to a small army of progressive American academics, journalists, foundation grantmakers, and others whove promoted the case for years, a San Francisco jury has cleared the Chevron Corporation of all liability in the civil suit filed...

Reminder: Ill be on a morning panel discussion tomorrow sponsored by the Manhattan Institute to discuss Marie Gryphons new paper on loser-pays reform. Details here....

AmLaw Daily has some further updates on the high-stakes tobacco proceedings previewed by Prof. Krauss in this space last week. Further background here....

Jonathan Adler is still patiently at it, trying to calm the hysteria....

Today the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Hudspeth v. Pulido on the standard for reviewing errors in jury instructions: Should such errors be subject to harmless error review...

Some of our readers might be interested in checking out the recently established Secular Right blog, which seeks to demonstrate that atheism and secularism are compatible with being on the...

An atheist sign proclaiming that "Religion is but myth and superstition" has been included in a holiday display on public property in Olympia, Washington. The display at the Washington...

I'm delighted to report that Prof. David Hyman of the University of Illinois law school will be joining us as a co-blogger. David directs the Epstein Program in Health Law and...

Thanksgiving may be over. But it's not too late to learn one of the less-appreciated lessons of the First Thanksgiving back in 1621. As economist Benjamin Powell explains, the Pilgrims...