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29 Apr, 2008 11:42 am
... v. Fame Jeans Inc. (PDF), an important trademark opinion construing a recent SCOTUS ruling: BROWN, Circuit Judge: For some reason, a pair
of jeans labeled Jack & Jones will sell for the equivalent of $96. Clearly there is magic in the name, and Fame Jeans tried to capture that
magic by registering Jack & Jones as a trademark in the United States. Aktieselskabet (Bestseller), which generated the magic by selling
Jack & Jones jeans elsewhere in ...
13 May, 2008 9:04 am
... Court's power to strike down statutes as unconstitutional and rerun history. No Brown v. Board of Education and no Dred Scott v. Sandford.
No Roe ... that directs those same justices to draw on the principles underlying founding materials. If Jack's entrenchment theory is correct,
then Republicans will make sure to appoint people ... to counter Scalia's version of originalism. Or, at least, this seems to be the likely outcome if Jack is right that not even Scalia can bring himself to comply with his own ...
25 Dec, 2007 6:00 am
... but he was one of the legal strategists who helped bring it down. He along with Thurgood Marshall, James Nabrit, Jack Greenberg and others
were part of the legal team that brought an end to legalized segregation in 1954. Time has a ... hamper the ability of schools to diversify their student body. The result will be a
world that looks disturbingly similar to the one that the Brown legal team was born into, one where democracy stops at the threshold of the
classroom and the Constitution is a set of ...
4 Sep, 2007 4:15 pm
... on British failure in Basra, a convenient distraction from the clay-footed imperialism that operates in other parts of the country. General Jack Keane has been labouring in the frontlines against his British counterparts: British policy in Basra has bred, he ... featuring a canine Blair fetching
the White Lawn Frisbee thrown by an intellectually challenged Bush may not be applicable to Brown. He has already eschewed Bush-nosing with
care. Withdrawing now will leave the American-led forces in the ...
27 Oct 10:40 am
... This isn't entirely surprising. After all, Justice Scalia was part of a majority that went as far as it could to undermine the integrationist intent of Brown. Still, inasmuch as control over the judiciary is a political battle -- over the next three or seven years, President Barack Obama will ... sway the
judiciary towards his point of view over his career on the bench. Updated at 11:35 PM Pacific: Per Jack Balkin, Justice Scalia didn't actually
say what the newspaper said he said. Here's the video.
14 Dec, 2007 6:16 am
... "who actually see the people and understand the local community," to better consider their communities' best interests, said Jack B.
Weinstein, a federal district judge in New York.... The court's two 7-2 decisions -- authored by Ruth ... director of the ACLU's drug law reform project. Boyd compared the potential
impact of Ginsburg's decision to the famous Brown v. Board of Education desegregation ruling. "When the Supreme Court says that something is
wrong, the other institutions of government pay ...
17 Dec, 2007 12:56 pm
In a statement to the House tonight, Jack Straw told MPs that the government has now lost Gordon Brown. The courier company contracted to deliver Brown to Portugal to sign the EU Treaty, after delivering him late,
has admitted they have absolutely no idea where he is. Police are calling off their search for 25 million HM Revenue & Customs records and are now scouring rubbish dumps to find the
Prime Minister.
10 Dec, 2008 1:35 pm
Crosspost from Freakonomics: See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die. In "Proposition 8 - The Musical," Neil Patrick Harris argues "there's
money to be made" - from weddings (and subsequent divorces) if California legalizes same-sex marriage. But my coauthor Jennifer Gerard Brown
beat him to the punch. In "Competitive Federalism and the Legislative Incentives to Recognize Same-Sex Marriage" 68 S. CAL. L. REV. 745 (1995) she: estimated ...
12 Jan, 2007 2:51 pm
Newsweek Magazine and Equal Justice Works are hosting an online discussion with Columbia Law Professor Jack Greenberg on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 1
p.m. ET. Professor Greenberg, who served as co-counsel to Thurgood Marshall in Brown v. Board of Education,...
29 Mar, 2007 7:00 am
Jack Dunn, author of The Vatican Boys, is proceeding with a copyright infringement case against Dan Brown, reports this article from Catholic Online.
15 Jun, 2007 11:00 am
By Eric Goldman Browne v. Avvo, CV7 920 (W.D. Wash. complaint filed June 14, 2007) You may have heard about Avvo, the latest entrant in the suddenly crowded field of lawyer
ratings/rankings. Avvo pulls ... what Avvo does too? I sure hope the Ninth Circuit cleans up the Roommates.com hairball before cases like this test its limits. For more information,
Jack Cook of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is on the job: Berman files suit against Avvo and Avvo responds to lawsuit. The WSJ Law Blog is
also on ...
9 Jul, 2007 5:54 am
"New View of Brown v. Board Unlikely To Sway One Judge": Today in The New York Sun, Joseph Goldstein has an article that begins, "Before
becoming one of the country's legendary trial judges, Jack B. Weinstein played a supporting role in one of the 20th century's defining court
cases."
15 Jul, 2007 11:30 am
I've been adopting a wait and see approach to the Brown government, but if this report in the Observer is true, it is most certainly a good
thing. Councils are apparently to be permitted to build more housing stock and possibly have rent income released back to them to do so ... to make this housing lawyer (to be) very
happy, how about implementing the Law Commission Renting Homes report (pdf) via its Draft Bill (pdf) at the same time? C'mon Yvette, talk to Jack and Gordon Housing law, law, whatever
20 Dec, 2007 3:54 am
... numerous reviews of the year. The last 12 months will be remembered for many things. It was the Blair said 'goodbye' and Brown discovered
the whims of public opinion; the year a group of British sailors saw more of Iran than they had anticipated. ... , 2007 has been an exciting year. Lexcel is going from strength to
strength; we launched the Jurisdiction of Choice campaign with the support of Jack Straw and some of our best firms; our quality of life debate
generated debates about being a good ...
13 Apr 7:19 pm
/**/ Darryl K. Brown (University of Virginia - School of Law) has posted Yick Wo and the Constitutional Regulation of Criminal Law (University
of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2008, No. 5, 2008) on SSRN. Here is ... per se, yet there are a number of constitutional boundaries dividing what legislatures can criminalize and what they
cannot. This short comment, prompted by Jack Chin's new revisionist history of Yick Wo v. Hopkins, describes what Yick Wo represents about the
constitutional regulation of ...
29 Jun, 2007 1:55 am
"Jack Straw becomes the first Lord Chancellor to sit in the Commons; Baroness Scotland takes over as Attorney-General." Full story The Times,
28th June 2007 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
7 Nov, 2007 7:41 am
... all on whether the entity that enacted the provision is entitled to obedience or "fidelity."" The puzzle for me is that the same things could be said of precedents. Precedents can
also serve as focal points for discussion. (Think about McCulloch v. Maryland or Brown v. Board of Education.). Precedents also can settle
contested questions, because, after all, they also have the force of law, and one might equally say that it is better that they be decided than that they be decided correctly. But ...
21 Dec, 2006 2:00 pm
... both as a lawyer and a judge and, along with other members of the Fifth Circuit (John Minor Wisdom, John Brown, and Richard Rives) was
instrumental in bringing effective desegregation to the South. (The anecdote at the beginning of this story about Judge Tuttle illustrates ... Judge Tuttle's life and accomplishments,
see any of the memorials and articles written about him, and definitely read Jack Bass's phenomenal book Unlikely Heroes. Judge Tuttle gave a
commencement speech at Emory Law School in ...
25 Apr, 2007 3:11 am
... 90 minutes. I know this not only from the shuttle schedule but also because I drove it on Sunday. Today's drive took 4 and a half hours. The road was slushy and icy, the snow was
blowing sideways with huge flakes, and 6 tractor trailers jack-knifed just before the Eisenhower Tunnel. I met some nice people on the ride
over (fortunate, since 10 of us were crammed into a van) and was enormously relieved when I arrived, safe and sound, at the resort. If my crummy little disposable camera works, I' ...
7 Jun, 2007 5:46 am
... (shareholders) and over-report to another (tax authorities). Levin has proposed this before, and it didn't catch on. Nevertheless, it's an interesting idea, and there was
interesting testimony from Senator Levin himself, acting IRS Commissioner Kevin Brown, SEC Division of Corporation Finance Director John White,
and former SEC Chief Accountant Lynn Turner. Whether or not anything comes of it is anyone's guess - but an impressive array of facts was marshaled by these witnesses. One question ...
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