Lawyers

• Justice Antonin Scalia's gift of originalism and textualism to the American legal thought

  With his recent passing, renowned Justice Antonin Scalia has left behind a legacy so great it has marked position as one of the most influential legal minds in the 21st century.

• Landmark Lawsuit Over Connecticut's School Funding Heads To Trial Tuesday

  Plaintiffs in the case are seeking an increase in the state's budget for education expenditure to provide a equal educational opportunities to all students.

• U.S. to launch federal probe into Baltimore police practices: Washington Post

  Attorney General Loretta Lynch will launch a federal probe into whether Baltimore's police department has engaged in a "pattern or practice" of excessive force, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

• Wisconsin federal judge finds state abortion law unconstitutional

  A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled as unconstitutional on Friday a state law requiring any doctor performing an abortion to have privileges to admit patients to a nearby hospital.

• Texas judge's immigration rebuke may be hard to challenge

  President Barack Obama's administration faces a difficult and possibly lengthy legal battle to overturn a Texas court ruling that blocked his landmark immigration overhaul, since the judge based his decision on an obscure and unsettled area of administrative law, lawyers said.

• Judge rules federal interstate handgun transfer ban unconstitutional

  A U.S. ban on the interstate sales of handguns by federal firearms dealers to buyers from other states violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Wednesday.

• Pro-gay marriage signals seen in U.S. Supreme Court action

  The U.S. Supreme Court's move on Monday to allow gay marriage to proceed in Alabama is the strongest signal yet that the justices are likely to rule in June that no state can restrict marriage to only heterosexual couples.

• Arnold Schwarzenegger: Former Gov. Wants Law Changed To Run For President; MusclePharm Investigated By SEC

  Muscle Pharm, a sports supplement company owned in part by movie star and the former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission