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14 Feb 2024, 9:24 am by Joshua Matz
During its trial of President Bill Clinton, the Senate adopted rules providing for a motion to dismiss following initial evidentiary presentations by the parties (and Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV)  ultimately offered such a motion). [read post]
7 Jan 2024, 3:45 am by jonathanturley
Indeed, Huntsville police officer William “Ben” Darby was convicted for killing a suicidal man holding a gun to his own head. [read post]
12 Nov 2023, 6:17 am by Frank Cranmer
Christ Church, Oxford: A Byrd in the Library: An Exhibition Celebrating William Byrd: William Byrd (c.1540-1623), one of the finest English composers and musicians of the 16th/17th centuries, and no stranger to the practicalities associated with “law and religion”: the exhibition is free is by appointment only and runs throughout Michaelmas Term 2023. [read post]
14 Sep 2023, 6:26 am by Scott Bomboy
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia added language to an omnibus bill passed by Congress in December 2004 that established the event observed today. [read post]
16 Jul 2023, 10:41 pm by Robin E. Kobayashi
LexisNexis has selected some of the top “noteworthy” panel decisions issued by the California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board during the period January through June 2023. [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 3:01 pm by John A. Emmons, Avery Schmitz
William Byrd outlined the need for a new approach to humanitarian aid in Afghanistan, with a focus on greater utilization of the Afghan private sector enabled by a shift toward cash payments, better implementation of new payment technologies, and improved aid coordination. [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 6:11 am by Daniel Shaviro
I wrote my senior thesis on some very interesting diaries that were left behind by the eighteenth century Virginia planter (and slaveholder) William Byrd II, which gave a remarkably intimate portrait of his life.For most of my college career I was planning to go to graduate school in history and, while not enormously methodologically self-conscious, I had a fairly clear idea of the sort of work that I might do. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 6:00 am by Jennifer González
The transcripts include the sentencing of these men: The sentence that the law hath appointed to pass upon you for your offences, and which this court doth therefore award is, that you the said Robert Tucker, Edward Robinson, Neal Paterson, William Scot, Job Bayley, John-William Smith, Thomas Carman, John Thomas, William Morrison, William Livers alias Evis, Samuel Booth, William Hewet, John Levit, William Eddy alias Nedy, Alexander Annand, George… [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 1:50 pm by William Appleton
William Byrd discussed international efforts to press for a more inclusive Taliban government in Afghanistan. [read post]
9 Dec 2021, 4:50 am by Scott Bomboy
In April 1964, a group of Southern Senators led by Richard Russell, Strom Thurmond, Robert Byrd, William Fulbright and Sam Ervin started a 60-day filibuster to block the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:02 pm by Austin Sarat and Dennis Aftergut
Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 9:30 pm by ernst
ICYMI:  Ann Williams’s freedom suit (Hyattsville Wire). [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 3:30 pm by Guest Blogger
”[12]   Leading Senators from both sides of the aisle, including Robert Byrd and Strom Thurmond, made religious arguments against passage of the CRA. [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 7:42 am by Marty Lederman
Byrd (1997), there’d “be nothing irrational about a system” that allowed either or both political branches to invoke the judiciary to settle such interbranch constitutional disputes; indeed, “some European constitutional courts operate under one or another variant of such a regime. [read post]