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News You Can Use Digest – October 18, 2019

18 Oct 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor

National/Federal After Arrest of Giuliani Associates, FEC Chair Says Commission Struggling to Enforce Rules The Hill – Justin Wise | Published: 10/14/2019 FEC Chairperson Ellen Weintraub lamented the agency’s inability to enforce campaign finance law, saying in an interview there “may well be a lot of money that is slipping into our system that we just don’t know about. [read post]

Lobby Comply Blog - http://stateandfed.com/lobbycomply/

New Issue: Review of International Studies

13 Sep 2019, 12:06 pm

Contents include:Nina Caspersen, Human rights in territorial peace agreements Robert Lamb, Pragmatism, practices, and human rights Maja Zehfuss, Military refusers and the invocation of conscience: Relational subjectivities and the legitimation of liberal war Henry Redwood & Alister Wedderburn, A cat-and-Maus game: the politics of truth and reconciliation in post-conflict comics Scott Hamilton, I am uncertain, but We are not: a new subjectivity of the Anthropocene Lisa Maria Dellmuth, Jan Aart… [read post]

International Law Reporter - http://ilreports.blogspot.com/

The State Bar of Texas Appellate Section and the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society celebrated its Texas Appellate Hall of Fame 2019 inductees during an Advanced Civil Appellate Seminar in Austin on September 5. The award recognizes judges, attorneys, and court personnel who have made significant contributions to appellate law and who are no longer living. The 2019 inductees: Thomas J. Rusk—The third chief justice of Texas, Thomas Rusk was actually the first to preside over a Supreme Court session and authored its first opinion in 1840. Prior to his life on the bench, Rusk was a signatory to the Texas Declaration of Independence and was also the Texas Republic’s war secretary. He oversaw the burial of Col. James Fannin, who, along with his men, was executed at Goliad under orders from President Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. Rusk led the final charge on Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Hortense Sparks Ward—When Hortense Ward passed the Texas bar exam in 1910—the first woman to do so—she set off a string of firsts. Among those milestones: the first female Texan to be licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; special chief justice of the temporary all-woman Texas Supreme Court (the first state high court of its kind in the country) of January 1925 in a case involving a trustee of a fraternal order of which the all-male Texas Supreme Court were members; and the country’s first female chief justice after being appointed to the latter by Gov. Pat Neff. The opinion issued (in a cause) has been cited numerous times by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and Texas appellate courts. John L. Hill Jr.—As the attorney general of Texas, John Hill argued before the U.S. Supreme Court five times. He served as the Texas Supreme Court chief justice from 1984 until 1988 when he resigned to lead an effort to abolish the popular election of judges in the state. Hill, who also served as the Texas secretary of state, is the only person to have held all three titles. In 1997, he received a lifetime achievement award from

6 Sep 2019, 1:14 pm by Eric Quitugua

The 2019 inductees: Thomas J. [read post]

State Bar of Texas Blog - http://blog.texasbar.com/

The State Bar of Texas Appellate Section and the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society celebrated its Texas Appellate Hall of Fame 2019 inductees during an Advanced Civil Appellate Seminar in Austin on September 5. The award recognizes judges, attorneys, and court personnel who have made significant contributions to appellate law and who are no longer living. The 2019 inductees: Thomas J. Rusk—The third chief justice of Texas, Thomas Rusk was actually the first to preside over a Supreme Court session and authored its first opinion in 1840. Prior to his life on the bench, Rusk was a signatory to the Texas Declaration of Independence and was also the Texas Republic’s war secretary. He oversaw the burial of Col. James Fannin, who, along with his men, was executed at Goliad under orders from President Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. Rusk led the final charge on Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Hortense Sparks Ward—When Hortense Ward passed the Texas bar exam in 1910—the first woman to do so—she set off a string of firsts. Among those milestones: the first female Texan to be licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; special chief justice of the temporary all-woman Texas Supreme Court (the first state high court of its kind in the country) of January 1925 in a case involving a trustee of a fraternal order of which the all-male Texas Supreme Court were members; and the country’s first female chief justice after being appointed to the latter by Gov. Pat Neff. The opinion issued (in a cause) has been cited numerous times by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and Texas appellate courts. John L. Hill Jr.—As the attorney general of Texas, John Hill argued before the U.S. Supreme Court five times. He served as the Texas Supreme Court chief justice from 1984 until 1988 when he resigned to lead an effort to abolish the popular election of judges in the state. Hill, who also served as the Texas secretary of state, is the only person to have held all three titles. In 1997, he received a lifetime achievement award from

6 Sep 2019, 1:14 pm by Eric Quitugua

The 2019 inductees: Thomas J. [read post]

State Bar of Texas Blog - http://blog.texasbar.com/

Tuesday round-up

3 Sep 2019, 7:56 am by Kalvis Golde

Briefly: At the Stanford Law Review, Thomas Ward Frampton urges a second look at Justice Clarence Thomas’ controversial dissent in Flowers v. [read post]

SCOTUSblog - http://www.scotusblog.com/

In Memoriam – July 2019

14 Aug 2019, 6:09 am by Adam Faderewski

Ward, 70, of Belton, died July 6, 2019. [read post]

State Bar of Texas Blog - http://blog.texasbar.com/

Shameful sound of silence endangering public health

20 Jun 2019, 9:05 pm by Hugh Pennington

Patients who might have been in hospital some weeks ago or who may still be on the ward have the right to understand what, if any, risk they may have been exposed to and what symptoms to watch out for. [read post]

Food Safety News - http://www.foodsafetynews.com/

Never too late: if you missed the IPKat last week

16 Jun 2019, 11:07 am

Annsley Merelle Ward reports on the UPC PrepComm’s post entitled "UPC Judicial Recruitment - 2019 Top-up Campaign now open! [read post]

IPKat - http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/

More Diplomacy, Less Intervention, but for What? Making Sense of the Grand Strategy Debate

7 Jun 2019, 5:03 am by Heather Hurlburt

I am indebted to Thomas Wright, the Brookings scholar and frequent writer on strategy, for offering three very broad categories and for immediately pointing out the most interesting debates that are happening within each. [read post]

Lawfare - http://www.lawfareblog.com/

Indian Treaty Prevails in Herrera v Wyoming

28 May 2019, 2:00 am by DONALD SCARINCI

Roberts Jr. and Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett M. [read post]

Constitutional Law Reporter - https://constitutionallawreporter.com/

There, but for the grace of God, go I

18 May 2019, 2:29 pm by Chris Edwards

A few weeks back, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Thomas Ward argued before the Fourth Circuit. [read post]

Appellate Advocacy Blog - http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/appellate_advocacy/

Things not to say at oral argument? — “Your Honor, I know that you’re not intending to try to humiliate me by that tone.”

9 May 2019, 5:23 pm by Howard Bashman

The quote that is the title of this post was spoken by Thomas G. [read post]

How Appealing - http://howappealing.abovethelaw.com

New Book: Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty

28 Mar 2019, 6:07 am by Ezra Rosser

New Book: Thomas J. [read post]

Poverty Law Prof Blog - http://maximinlaw.wordpress.com

News You Can Use – March 1, 2019

28 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Jonathan Spontarelli

That volume of ward-specific legislation is typical for aldermen. [read post]

Lobby Comply Blog - http://stateandfed.com/lobbycomply/

Group of ex-GTTF officers seeks dismissal of city’s lawsuit on indemnity

8 Feb 2019, 8:22 pm by Heather Cobun

Four officers — Momodu Gondo, Evodio Hendrix, Maurice Ward and Thomas Allers — moved to dismiss the complaint Feb. 4, arguing there is ... [read post]

On the Record - http://thedailyrecord.com/ontherecord/

Chin on Frampton, "The Jim Crow Jury"

28 Dec 2018, 6:00 am by Karen Tani

Over at JOTWELL, you'll find an admiring review by Gabriel "Jack" Chin (UC Davis) of "The Jim Crow Jury," by Thomas Ward Frampton (Harvard Law School). [read post]

Legal History Blog - http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/

Fighting Jim Crow, Chapter 517

13 Dec 2018, 3:30 am by Gabriel "Jack" Chin

Thomas Ward Frampton, The Jim Crow Jury, 71 Vand. [read post]

JOTWELL - The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) - http://jotwell.com/

MA Land Court Finds Lack of Evidence to Support Alleged Financial Conflict of Interest Where Board Member was Part-Owner in Competing Business

10 Dec 2018, 8:29 pm by Patricia Salkin

Ward v Rand, 2017 WL 2951639 (MA Land Ct. 7/10/2017) [read post]

Law of the Land - http://lawoftheland.wordpress.com/

How Common Are Wrongful Convictions?

1 Nov 2018, 9:39 am by Kent Scheidegger

See Ward Campbell, Exoneration Inflation (2008). [read post]