Law & Society

Data thefts at U.S. retailers have rekindled enthusiasm in Congress for a single federal law on how customers should be notified about such breaches, but those efforts face the same roadblock as in the past: dozens of overlapping state laws already in place.

Last April, prominent lawyer and First Amendment champion Edward de Grazia died at age 86. De Grazia spent a legendary legal career defending the artistic worth of literary icons, like Henry Miller and William Burroughs, in their epic battles against censorship.

The office of Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto's court filings with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the state's same-sex marriage ban attempted to close future arguments that contested the controversial law.