
Sidebar: The enforcers
How do people who are owed millions in default judgments collect from obstinate defendants? We take a look.
In the strange and wild land of Texas, exotic animals normally found in zoos and aquariums are all the rage in homes as pets. What could possibly go wrong?
How do people who are owed millions in default judgments collect from obstinate defendants? We take a look.
Space, so it goes, is the final frontier. And a new legal one. No one owns it (yet), so who gets to make badly needed intergalactic law? And can we start by criminalizing littering our orbit with space junk?
This U.S. Supreme Court term is the first to feature Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman justice and President Joe Biden's recent appointee to the court, and will dive into some pretty weighty issues. When do racial minorities deserve extra protection? What constitutes fair use in the art world? We break down what you need to know.
Can someone's art be used against them to build a criminal case? Prosecutors would say yes and are doing so against rappers. But does this infringe on the artists' First Amendment rights? And why is it that only Black rappers seem to be targeted?
Juries are living, breathing beasts made up of 8 or 12 or 15 people, each with their own quirks and quibbles, not to mention beefs and biases. What could possibly go wrong?
Old sins have long shadows — especially as long as people are alive to remember the sins. We visit Amache, where thousands of Japanese Americans and other immigrants were imprisoned during World War II. Every May, descendants and survivors return.
From Aztec and Mayan artifacts in a museum in Vienna to pieces of art Nazis stole from Jewish families sitting in galleries across the world, we explore the thorny issues of stealing, co-opting, owning and returning cultural heritage pieces.