If there’s one thing that lawyers know about reading documents, it’s to pay attention to the footnotes. In fact, oftentimes the most important information is buried there. America’s entire 14th ...

Rangappa is a lawyer, a former FBI counter-intelligence agent, senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and a commentator on MSNBC and CNN. If there’s one thing that ...

The Republican chairmen of two Senate committees asked Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday to declassify information in four footnotes in the report on the FBI’s ...

“Having to read a footnote,” the playwright Noël Coward once remarked, “resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.” So why then, in his otherwise ...

Is any footnote in U.S. Supreme Court history as famous as Footnote 4 in the U.S. v. Carolene Products case? Perhaps not; Footnote 4, after all, essentially established different levels of ...

Today the Supreme Court decided Viking River Cruises v. Moriana, yet another Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) case. The justices split 8-1 on the judgment, concluding that the FAA "preempts a rule of ...

From Kent v. Hennelly, decided yesterday by Judge David C. Norton: At the hearing, the court heard arguments from Hadley Dreibelbis and Philip Golodetz, two law students from Duke University School of ...