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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie could very well find himself a defendant in a criminal prosecution as federal prosecutors investigate his administration's closure of lanes on the George Washington Bridge, spanning the Hudson River, between Fort Lee, N.J., and Manhattan. While he has been quick to...

I called one of the law’s great septuagenarians just after the new year to commiserate about the passing of New Haven attorney William Gallagher.


“I didn’t see this coming,” he said, noting that Gallagher, like him, was in his 70s.
Death is...

I’ve never fully understood just why prostitution is a crime. Our courting and mating rituals as a species are complex. Prostitution seems, well, a more direct and sometimes honest, if pathetic, route to certain primal satisfactions.


Yet prostitution cases are...