The Supreme Court in Shoop v. Twyford continued its sustained assault on efforts by prisoners to challenge their state-court convictions and sentences in federal court. In Tuesday’s 5-4 decision, the ...

Federal courts employ the All Writs Act to serve countless ends, from assisting FBI investigations to prohibiting vexatious litigation to requiring Apple to access data. This statute, which was ...

Attorneys for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press have filed requests in three federal district courts to unseal court orders seeking help from private travel technology companies in ...

PHOENIX — The federal government has used a broad statute that allows courts to pressure technology companies to aid in uncovering data on locked smartphones in several cases in Arizona, a recent ...

Update: 4/1/2016: The ACLU of Massachusetts has filed a motion seeking to unseal the docket for the suspected All Writs Act case in that state, arguing that the public should have access to case ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The government has used the far-reaching All Writs Act at least 63 times to compel tech companies to assist it in accessing information on locked smartphones, an ACLU study found. The ...

Background: The federal government has long used the All Writs Act to compel private companies to assist law enforcement investigations, though rarely without controversy. In one high-profile example, ...

On Tuesday, Judge Sheri Pym issued an order under the All Writs Act requiring Apple to assist the FBI in searching the contents of one of the San Bernardino shooters’ iPhones. The Internet responded ...