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16 Jul 2018, 3:25 am by Scott Bomboy
 Attorney General William Bradford wrote about the public doubts concerning Justice William Cushing (age and health issues) and Justice James Wilson (financial problems) as replacements for Jay. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 7:33 am by Jim Martin
 Caleb Cushing, who served as Attorney General during the administration of Franklin Pierce, established the precedent of not conducting a private law practice. [read post]
8 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm by Ronald D. Rotunda
It was an inauspicious beginning for the new Court: Georgia refused to appear, claiming it had sovereign immunity; Georgia lost; and then the Eleventh Amendment (enacted in 1795) overturned Chisholm.Each of the justices (Chief Justice John Jay, and Justices John Blair, James Wilson, William Cushing, and James Iredell) in Chisholm wrote separate opinions. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 3:51 pm by Dan
President George Washington appointed William Cushing as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court where he served from 1789 – 1810. [read post]
6 Jun 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
“Copyright Troll’s Tech ‘Experts’ Can Apparently Detect Infringement Before It Happens” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] “Judge Alsup Threatens To Block Malibu Media From Any More Copyright Trolling In Northern California” [Mike Masnick, same] “The Truth About Seattle’s Proposed Soda Tax and its Ilk” [Baylen Linnekin quoting my piece on the Howard County, Maryland campaign against soft drinks; my related on Philadelphia soda tax] Update:… [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 1:40 pm by Kevin
Finally, I noticed that Corrigan was represented pro bono by a team of students at the College of William & Mary’s appellate clinic, so congratulations to them, and good work. [read post]
19 Sep 2016, 9:41 pm by Mark Walsh
” In 1794, four members of the then-six member Court heard the case: Chief Justice John Jay and Associate Justices William Cushing, William Paterson, and James Wilson. [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 4:17 am by Kevin Cieply
PDF version A review of William C. [read post]
20 Jun 2016, 5:22 pm by Molly Runkle
Commentary on the opinion comes from Tim Cushing at TechDirt, Lisa Soronen for International Municipal Lawyers Association, Avia Shen of ThinkProgress, Jonathan Blanks for Cato at Liberty, Victoria Massie of Vox, Noah Feldman of Bloomberg View, Stephanie Mencimer of Mother Jones, and Mark Joseph Stern of Slate. [read post]
23 Apr 2016, 9:14 am
I see that Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939), the "father of modern neurosurgery," did his internship at Massachusetts General Hospital after graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1895. [read post]
26 Feb 2016, 3:10 pm by The Public Employment Law Press
He holds a J.D. from Roger Williams University School of Law and a B.S. from Salve Regina University. [read post]
19 Jan 2016, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
One day after withdrawing Williams, Grant nominated former Attorney General Caleb Cushing, but withdrew it after Republican Senators alleged Civil War-era connections between Cushing and the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. [read post]
15 Nov 2015, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On this day in history, Joseph Story was nominated by President James Madison to take the Supreme Court seat vacated by William Cushing. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 8:29 am
Payne, Rachael Shwom & Samantha Heaton, Public Participation and Norm Formation for Risky Technology: Adaptive Governance of Solar-Radiation Management William C.G. [read post]
26 Apr 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
"Emily Blanck argues that the fugitive slave clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section 2) had its roots in a 1783 ruling by Justice William Cushing of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to grant a writ of habeas corpus freeing eight South Carolina slaves being detained in jail in order to be returned to their masters. [read post]
11 Mar 2015, 5:45 am by SHG
  But, as Tim Cushing explains, you would be wrong. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 5:14 am by SHG
He was then the university vice president and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1977–1981, when he returned to Arkansas as a professor at the William H. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 8:04 pm by Jay Grenig
(For another amazing story of heroism, read about William Cushing.) [read post]