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12 Mar, 2007 2:04 am
Prof. Suja Thomas has recently posted her latest article, The PSLRA's Seventh Amendment Problem, on SSRN. The article may be downloaded at
[ssrn.com]. Here is the Abstract: This Article is the first to examine the proper role of the jury in private securities fraud litigation. In the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act, Congress required that a securities fraud complaint plead "a strong inference" of scienter. The courts have disagreed on the standard that satisfies this requirement, and ...
27 Jan 4:00 am
Prof. Suja Thomas (Illinois) recently posted an Article entitled The Fallacy of Dispositive Procedure on SSRN. Here is the Abstract: I have
another seemingly heretical proposition - that dispositive procedure is fatally flawed. The Supreme Court has held that a judge can dismiss a case before, during, or after trial if he
decides a reasonable jury could not find for the plaintiff. The Court has also held that a judge cannot dismiss a case based on his own view of the sufficiency of the evidence. ...
16 May 7:01 am
... Web. For our purposes here, however, it gives me an opportunity to talk about the quintessential American inventor, Thomas Edison.
Benjamin Franklin may be the most famous American inventor, but the most prolific and influential American inventor was ... Fame was founded in
1973 by the USPTO and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations with the induction of Thomas Edison as the first honoree.
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9 Jul, 2008 6:57 pm
... the 5th time--I love that miniseries!) This time through, however, I was struck by the scene where Benjamin Franklin and John Adams edit
Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence. I don't have the script, but the scene went something like this: Franklin: "These
truths are ... Solipsistically, my thoughts went immediately to my own summer writing project--not that I'm any Thomas Jefferson! But I figure
if even Jefferson's gorgeous glorious prose needed a few ...
7 Jul, 2006 7:40 am
... I was wrong. If he were around today, Ben Franklin might be an open source programmerConsider this passage from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: "In order of time, I should have mentioned before, that having, in 1742, invented an open stove for the better ... raised against the Use
of them answered and obviated," etc. This pamphlet had a good effect. Gov'r. Thomas was so pleas'd with the construction of this stove, as
described in it, that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending ...
18 Apr, 2007 5:15 pm
The following commentary is from Paul Benjamin Linton, Special Counsel, Thomas More Society (Chicago,
Illinois). Mr. Linton filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Thomas More Society in support of the Government in each of the two cases decided
today. The Supreme Court's narrow vote today upholding the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is welcome, but neither supporters nor opponents of abortion should read too ...
8 Jun 7:01 pm
... ., No. 08-22 (U.S. Supr. Ct. June 8, 2009) that the Due Process Clause required Justice Brent Benjamin to recuse himself from the case
shortly after the defendant's CEO spent millions of dollars to help Benjamin get elected to the ... will do far more to erode public confidence
in judicial impartiality than an isolated failure to recuse in a particular case." Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito joined in the dissent.
Justice Scalia wrote his own separate dissent. Regardless of how you might feel about ...
26 Feb 7:25 am
... 1905 to provide legal education at night and weekends to working-class Louisvillians. Its early boosters were Benjamin F. Washer, Judge
Shackelford Miller and, the subject of today's legal ephemera, Circuit Judge Thomas R. Gordon, who served as the school's ... Gordon's parents
were both born in Georgia, but had settled in Owingsville, Kentucky by the time that young Thomas was born in 1854. I have not yet ascertained
details of his early education, but in 1890 he ...
23 Sep 5:49 pm
... Please join us SEPT 23RD-9:30pm Eastern, as we here at American's Reality Check (ARC) welcome Special Guest Thomas Armstrong, of
Pennsylvania to the show. Tom in 2008 made National headlines when he and his family decided to house three former sex offenders in ... .4 MB) "TThey who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (United States Constitution, Bill of Rights) ©
2006-2009 Sex Offender Issues , All Rights Reserved
24 Sep 7:42 pm
... Please join us SEPT 23RD-9:30pm Eastern, as we here at American's Reality Check (ARC) welcome Special Guest Thomas Armstrong, of
Pennsylvania to the show. Tom in 2008 made National headlines when he and his family decided to house three former sex offenders in ... .4 MB) "TThey who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (United States Constitution, Bill of Rights) ©
2006-2009 Sex Offender Issues , All Rights Reserved
28 Sep 12:21 am
... join us SEPT 23RD-9:30pm Eastern, as we here at American's Reality Check (ARC) welcome Special Guest Thomas Armstrong, of Pennsylvania to
the show. Tom in 2008 made National headlines when he and his family decided to house three former sex offenders ... YouTube Playlist "TThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain
a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (United States Constitution, Bill of Rights) © 2006-2009 Sex
Offender Issues , All Rights Reserved
16 May, 2007 12:39 am
... ., 463 U.S. 239, 244, 103 S.Ct. 2979, 77 L.Ed.2d 605 (1983). Thomas correctly characterizes the constitutional right at issue as based in
the substantive component of the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause. But the ... that Thomas's conduct "shocks the conscience" of the Court.
Rather, Austin can establish a constitutional violation in this setting by demonstrating that Thomas acted with deliberate indifference to his
medical needs.FN5 FN5. The Court is aware that there is some division among the ...
20 Feb, 2007 5:05 am
... may lead to a new trial, or a change in the level of the punitive damages award, this Court will not consider the question whether the award is constitutionally "grossly excessive."
P. 10. 340 Ore. 35, 127 P. 3d 1165, vacated and remanded. Breyer, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Kennedy, Souter, and Alito, JJ., joined. Stevens,
J., and Thomas, J., filed dissenting opinions. Ginsburg, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Scalia and Thomas, JJ., joined.
29 Aug, 2007 1:25 am
... a vehicle search under the Fourth Amendment. However, several other Circuit Courts have addressed the issue directly. See United States v. Thomas, 447 F.3d 1191 (9th Cir.2006) (collecting cases and analyzing the Circuit split). Of the Circuits to address the ... driver may have standing to
challenge a vehicle search if he received permission from the authorized driver to use the car. United States v. Thomas, 447 F.3d 1191, 1199
(9th Cir.2006); United States v. Best, 135 F.3d 1223, 1225 (8th Cir. ...
18 Feb, 2008 10:19 pm
... , and the Exclusionary Rule, on February 29. The event will include a panel debating the constitutionality of summary judgment. Professors Suja Thomas, Edward Brunet, and William E. Nelson will sit on that panel, and the Honorable Lavenski R. Smith of the U.S. ... will be published in Volume 93, Issue
5 of the Iowa Law Review. In addition to her positional paper, Professor Thomas will also publish a formal response to Professors Brunet and
Nelson. Questions should be directed to Alison K. Guernsey, ...
28 Feb, 2007 10:15 pm
... prisoner lawsuits. Each of these goals is better served by interpreting § 1997e(a)'s exhaustion language to include a procedural default component than by interpreting it merely to
require termination of all administrative grievance proceedings. FN2. There is an emerging split of authority among the Circuits on this issue. Compare Ross v. County of Bernalillo, 365
F.3d 1181 (10th Cir.2004), and Pozo v. McCaughtry, 286 F.3d 1022 (7th Cir.2002), with Thomas v. Woolum, 337 F.3d 720 (6th Cir.2003).
28 May, 2007 11:26 pm
... Retail Grocers Ass'n v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 605 F.2d 1155, 1159 (10th Cir.1979) (same); Williams v. Kleppe, 539 F.2d 803, 804 n. 1 (1 st Cir.1976) (same); Tatum v. Laird, 444
F.2d 947, 951 (D.C.Cir .1971) (same), rev'd on other grounds, 408 U.S. 1 (1972); but see Hartridge v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co., 415 F.2d 809 (8th Cir.1969) (adopting the viewpoint of
the party invoking federal jurisdiction approach in dictum); Thomas v. General Elec. Co., 207 F.Supp. 792, 794-95 (W.D.Ky.1962) (same).
16 Aug, 2007 7:00 pm
Per Thomas v. Dwyer , Slip Copy, 2007 WL 2137807 (E.D. Mo. Jul 23 , 2007) (NO. 4:04CV46 DJS): As an initial matter, the undersigned notes that
the Missouri Court of Appeals reviewed the instant claim for plain error inasmuch as petitioner failed to preserve the specific claim for appellate review. In Hornbuckle v. Groose, 106
F.3d 253, 257 (8th Cir.1997), the Eighth Circuit recognized that a decisional split within the circuit allows the Court to choose whether to review for plain error a claim ...
10 Jan, 2008 2:16 am
... a procedural default component, by analogizing it to the exhaustion doctrine (with its corollary procedural default component) in the habeas context. Spruill v. Gillis, 372 F.3d
218, 228-229 (3d Cir.2004).FN2 FN2. There is a split of authority among the Circuits on this issue. Compare Berry v. Kerik, 366 F.3d 85 (2d Cir.2004), Ross v. County of Bernalillo, 365
F.3d 1181 (10th Cir.2004), and Pozo v. McCaughtry, 286 F.3d 1022 (7th Cir.2002), with Thomas v. Woolum, 337 F.3d 720 (6th Cir.2003).
23 Jan, 2008 2:26 am
... grants the motion to dismiss is final and appealable." In adopting that rule, the James court followed the Sixth Circuit's approach in Hicks v. NLO, Inc., 825 F.2d 118 (6th
Cir.1987), and the Eighth Circuit's approach in Chrysler Motors Corp. v. Thomas Auto Co., 939 F.2d 538 (8th Cir.1991). See James, 283 F.3d at
1069-70. In those cases, the courts exercised appellate jurisdiction over cases in which the district court had entered final judgment at the parties' request by dismissing remaining
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