The Freedom People has released an educational guide examining the differences between natural law and statutory law, ...

Statutory rape laws may seem cut and dry, but a recent case in Nebraska may make you want a refresher course on the legal process. On Tuesday in Falls City, Nebraska, a 22-year-old man was scheduled ...

For many contemporary criminal law theorists, statutory law is supposedly the gold standard. Many believe that statutory legislation is more democratic than having common law crimes. Some maintain ...

I often see people assuming that sex with under-18-year-olds is a crime (statutory rape); for instance, some comments on the 17-year-old gets help in lying about age to get abortion; later, she and ...

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My colleague Sam Bray, who is one of the nation’s leading remedies experts, and also someone whose judgment I very much trust, passes along this note highly ...

In December, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a series of amendments that made significant changes to the requirements for statutory powers of attorney in the state of New York. The changes, as discussed by C ...

The state’s highest court on Tuesday upheld an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions. A PDF version of this document with embedded text is available at the link below: IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE ...

Legal malpractice principles arose in medieval common law. It is linked with and has become more clearly intertwined with ancient deceit statutes with the Court of Appeals’ determination that ...