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PrawfsBlawg
PrawfsBlawg
By Professors Dan Markel, Ethan J. Leib, Rob Howse, Paul Horwitz, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Steve Vladeck and Orly Lobel.
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/
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May 22
9th Circuit Strikes Down Arizona 20 Week Fetal Pain Abortion Ban: Some Reflections on the Opinion
9th Circuit Strikes Down Arizona 20 Week Fetal Pain Abortion Ban: Some Reflections on the OpinionYesterday, the 9th Circuit (a panel of Berzon, Schroeder, Kleinfeld) struck down as unconstitutional Arizona's ban on abortion at 20 weeks. As the court described the statute: The challenged portion of Section 7, codified at Arizona Revised… -
May 21
Sperm Donation, Anonymity, and Compensation: An Empirical Legal Study
Sperm Donation, Anonymity, and Compensation: An Empirical Legal StudyIn the United States, most sperm donations* are anonymous. By contrast, many developed nations require sperm donors to be identified, typically requiring new sperm (and egg) donors to put identifying information into a registry that is made… -
May 21
Entry Level Hiring: The 2013 Report - Final Call for Information (For Real)
Entry Level Hiring: The 2013 Report - Final Call for Information (For Real)This is (honestly) the last call for information for the Entry Level Hiring Report. The data collection will close on Friday, May 24. I am aware that I will miss some hires because of this closing date. C'est la report. (And yes, I am also…
Rank this Week: 261
EvidenceProf Blog
EvidenceProf Blog
By John Marshall Law School Professor Colin Miller, with Contributing Editors and Professors David Leonard, Joelle Moreno, and Myrna Raeder
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/evidenceprof/
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May 21
Talk About the Life in Massachusetts: Supreme Judicial Court of MA Does Not Adopt Federal Rule of Evidence 608(b)
Talk About the Life in Massachusetts: Supreme Judicial Court of MA Does Not Adopt Federal Rule of Evidence 608(b)Federal Rule of Evidence 608(b) provides that Except for a criminal conviction under Rule 609, extrinsic evidence is not admissible to prove specific instances of a witness’s conduct in order to attack or support the witness’s character… -
May 20
Black & White: D.C. Court of Appeals Finds Trial Courts Have Discretion to Consider Evidence of Juror Racial Bia
Black & White: D.C. Court of Appeals Finds Trial Courts Have Discretion to Consider Evidence of Juror Racial BiaFederal Rule of Evidence 606(b) states: (b) During an Inquiry into the Validity of a Verdict or Indictment. (1) Prohibited Testimony or Other Evidence. During an inquiry into the validity of a verdict or indictment, a juror may not testify... -
May 17
Leisure Suit Larry & the IRS: U.S. Tax Court Uses Rule 1003 to Exclude Altered Duplicate
Leisure Suit Larry & the IRS: U.S. Tax Court Uses Rule 1003 to Exclude Altered DuplicateFederal Rule of Evidence 1002, the Best Evidence Rule, provides that An original writing, recording, or photograph is required in order to prove its content unless these rules or a federal statute provides otherwise. That said, Federal Rule…
Rank this Week: 1685
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
By Professors Byron Stier and Howard Erichson.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/mass_tort_litigation/
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May 15
Distributive Justice in Action
Distributive Justice in ActionThere is a very nice, lauditory article on Kenneth Feinberg in the New York Times today: "One Man Disperses Charity After Tragedy in Boston." The interesting thing about the compensation funds Feinberg is often asked to run are the… -
May 15
Distributive Justice in Action
Distributive Justice in ActionThere is a very nice, lauditory article on Kenneth Feinberg in the New York Times today: "One Man Disperses Charity After Tragedy in Boston." The interesting thing about the compensation funds Feinberg is often asked to run are the… -
Apr 29
Engle's Progeny March On
Engle's Progeny March OnEarlier this month two tobacco trials with origins in the Florida Supreme Court's affirmation of classwide issue preclusion in Engle resulted in large awards. Searcy v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., M.D. Fla., No. 3:09-cv-13723, verdict rendered…
Rank this Week: 2073
Entertainment Law Reporter
Entertainment Law Reporter
From the Donald E. Biederman Entertainment & Media Law Institute at Southwestern Law School.
http://entertainmentlawreporter.blogspot.com/
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Jun 5
Entertainment Law Reporter on hiatu
Entertainment Law Reporter on hiatuI've discovered that publishing a one-man blog - even a blog that primarily calls attention to the fine work of others - is a surprisingly time-consuming activity. My work on the Entertainment Law Reporter got interrupted by the need to… -
May 2
The Donald, The Apprentice, the FCC, and the broadcast law issues if Trump runs for President
The Donald, The Apprentice, the FCC, and the broadcast law issues if Trump runs for PresidentThose who watch politics (the way others watch sports) wonder whether Donald Trump is seriously thinking about running for President, or whether he is simply generating publicity for his television show "The Apprentice." Only "The Donald"… -
May 2
FTC reports on compliance with entertainment industry age and content rating
FTC reports on compliance with entertainment industry age and content ratingThe Federal Trade Commission has found that video game retailers enforce industry age and content ratings more vigorously than other entertainment retailers, and that music CD retailers are the most lax at doing so. In the words of the…
Rank this Week: 2579