Civil litigators often overlook character evidence, assuming it to be inadmissible. But the Federal Rules of Evidence and their state counterparts do not impose a categorical ban on character evidence ...

PEN America has joined the Free Our Art coalition in supporting the reintroduction of federal legislation that would restrict the use of artistic works—including literature and poetry—as evidence in ...

Video provides crucial evidence in criminal and civil trials. Yet courts in the United States (both state and federal) lack clear and consistent guidelines on how video should be stored, presented and ...