The winning argument: If someone can’t afford to pay court costs, cutting off their means of getting to work makes no sense.

Reeves, appointed in 2010 to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, has ruled in cases of equality and civil rights.

John Grisham is helping the Law School kick off its new podcast, “Common Law,” hosted by Dean Risa Goluboff and Vice Dean Leslie Kendrick.

The study counters a popular image of lawyers as a largely unhappy bunch prone to depression, substance abuse and suicide, said law professor John Monahan, who has tracked UVA Law’s Class of 1990 for nearly 30 years.

The ruling, covered widely in Virginia media, brings to a close the neglected health challenges of female inmates at a prison in Fluvanna County.

UVA’s School of Law asked several of its experts to predict what is coming down the line for litigious matters. Read about what the future holds for driverless cars, warfare, the stock market and more.

Among the many questions pondered: Is it just to execute someone for a crime that they have no memory of committing?

The former justice still has faith in the court and does not regret retiring, he said during an event sponsored by the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy.

UVA Law’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic will present an oral argument Wednesday in a case that may ultimately help more people receive their Social Security benefits.

Her next plan: to cross the last five U.S. states off of her travel list.