News organizations asked a Washington court Friday to free a legal newspaper to publish information, found in court records, that has been ordered suppressed by a local judge.
Two law professors who researched the salience of legal research have concluded that, contrary to conventional wisdom, judges increasingly are citing law review articles in their opinions. Analyzing more than 296,000 reported federal circuit opinions filed between 1950 and 2008, David Schwartz and Lee Petherbridge found increased citation to law review articles during the past 20 years ...
