As previewed, Jamar Quarles was previously convicted under a Michigan “burglary” statute that encompasses not just common-law offenders (those who, in Blackstone’s conception repeated today, “break ...

A young woman from a poor family in Massachusetts struggles in school, and is referred to a behavioral health provider serving Medicaid patients. After prolonged counseling of doubtful quality, she is ...

Language and the limits of the common law suffered this week as an Oklahoma judge declared Johnson & Johnson liable for supposedly creating what the judge called a “public nuisance” resulting in the ...

Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1 (1999) offers a convenient point of entry into the debate over how best to reconcile fuzzy statutory language with fairly settled common-law expectations. What we’ll ...