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2 Aug 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Today’s justices make generous use of legal canons—those old principles of interpretation that come from Roman law and are often, perhaps surprisingly, shared with Islamic law.[15]After Karl Llewelyn excoriated the use of these legal canons to interpret statutes as incoherent over half a century ago, Justice Scalia and his textualist colleagues (and disciples) rehabilitated them.[16]They are now favored tools for Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito, Roberts, and Thomas. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 5:43 am by Bernard Bell
For nearly a century, Congress has required broadcasters to identify the sponsors or providers of broadcast programming airing on their stations.[1] Implicitly such identifications should be truthful and non-deceptive. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
In a blissfully short majority opinion, Justice William O. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat and Dennis Aftergut
[l]icense to act on the basis of such belief . . . is certainly not ‘ordered liberty. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 6:23 am by Jennifer Davis
L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1) making it a crime to engage in sodomy (Eskridge, 233). [read post]
26 Jun 2022, 12:28 am by Bill Henderson
Remarkably, the luxury and grandeur of Cravath’s Veraton estate was significantly overshadowed by his law partner, William D. [read post]
23 Jun 2022, 12:27 pm by Eugene Volokh
Here is my very tentative summary of what appears to me on first read, based on Justice Thomas's majority opinion (joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett) plus a bit from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence, joined by Chief Justice Roberts: [1.] [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 6:13 am by Ryan Goodman
A part of President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the presidential election involved an effort to misuse the Electoral College in seven battleground states. [read post]