Two years ago, Joshua Amburgy was accused of killing his mother in Miami township. Now, prosecutors are trying for a second ...

I was recently in court with a complex domestic litigation matter. My client was the “respondent” which, in family law ...

According to a former federal prosecutor who has tried a high-profile corruption case in Illinois, U.S. government attorneys ...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently delivered a significant judgment in the case of Goverdhan Vs Chief Municipal Officer, ...

The notion of burden of proof and its companion notion of presumption are central to argumentation studies. This book argues that we can learn a lot from how the courts have developed procedures over ...

So too, the burden of proof in a lawsuit can make or break the outcome. Scheduled for argument before the U.S. Supreme Court on November 5 is one such case (E.M.D. Sales, Inc. v Carrera ...

The job of the judge or jury is to decide which facts are correct. There is a law of evidence or a rule called the burden of proof. The burden of proof is the obligation or necessity to prove the ...

Donald Griffin co-discovered bat sonar, founded the field of echolocation, and opened the door for the study of awareness and ...

Lawyers for Tesla shareholders argued the jury instructions were confusing and impermissibly heightened their burden of proof ...

A number of federal laws use a preponderance of evidence standard and so should the Fair Labor Standards Act, says the ...

the Supreme Court agreed to hear Carrera to clarify the precise burden of proof that employers need to meet to satisfy that ...

However, when the accused invokes self-defense, the burden of proof is shifted from the prosecution to the defense, and it becomes incumbent upon the accused to prove, by clear and convincing evidence ...