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9 May 2024, 10:32 am by Eugene Volokh
It reasons, much historical analysis later, with the view that: A more faithful application of Bruen requires the Government to proffer Founding-era felony analogues that are "distinctly similar" to Duarte's underlying offenses and would have been punishable either with execution, with life in prison, or permanent forfeiture of the offender's estate. [read post]
9 May 2024, 6:05 am by Adam Klasfeld
At least 26 women have accused Trump of some form of sexual misconduct, from unwanted kisses to groping to rape, but the former president is currently standing trial for distinctly more white-collar crimes: 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in 2017 to cover up those alleged 2016 campaign and election crimes. [read post]
7 May 2024, 6:44 pm
 That, perhaps unintentionally, appears to come out quite distinctly in words that President Biden meant as solace and comfort for the citizens and residents of the United States who also happen to be, believe themselves to be, or are believed by others to be Jews. [read post]
3 May 2024, 2:58 am by Paul Maharg
It was billed in the conference programme as the launch of the BILETA online teaching policy. [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 4:55 am by jonathanturley
I have been to some WHC dinners where the hosts were distinctly unfunny and even painful. [read post]
The New York law has a few exceptions, such as where the prior acts are very distinctly relevant to a contested issue about the defendant’s intent, or to show a very distinctive pattern to his behavior. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 5:00 am by Bernard Bell
Many state and local officials host social media sites and use them to converse with followers on matters related to their governmental responsibilities, among other things.[1]  Not surprisingly, many choose to block from their sites certain members of the public they find disagreeable.[2] Being disagreeable, or at least in disagreement with such actions, blocked followers sometimes sue alleging that their exclusion violates the First Amendment.[3]  One of the most notable examples was a… [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 8:00 am by Unknown
This book moves beyond these mischaracterisations and instead distinctly focuses on the agency of African migrants and the creative strategies they employ while planning their routes within and across the African continent. [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 10:00 pm by Sherica Celine
Business combination agreements for SPAC acquisitions of private companies are distinctly different from both public company and private target acquisition agreements. [read post]
10 Apr 2024, 9:30 pm by ernst
  It is entitled Digging into Our Forgotten Legal History.In the season’s fifth episode, released Tuesday, Professors Cynthia Nicoletti and Joy Milligan talk with host Dean Risa Goluboff, who is also a legal historian, about two of their articles that share something in common: both show instances of people and institutions using the law to preserve the status quo against movements that were trying to improve conditions for Black Americans.Yet the professors took distinctly… [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 8:12 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Here is his explanation of the theory: Durable social regulation evolves when it is demanded by both of two distinctly different groups. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 8:42 am
But when I read that footnote, I distinctly recalled writing something back when I was a law clerk some 33 years ago. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 5:55 am by Ronald A. Brand
It will require careful attention to matters of transitional justice and economic reintegration in the three distinctly different regions of Crimea (an autonomous region with a unique history); Donetsk and Luhansk (also occupied since 2014); and parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions (occupied and annexed by the Russian Federation in 2022). [read post]
31 Mar 2024, 6:00 am by Lawrence Solum
The essential fact is that "risk" means in some cases a quantity susceptible of measurement, while at other times it is something distinctly not of this character; and there are far-reaching and crucial differences in the bearings of the phenomenon depending on which of the two is really present and operating. ... [read post]
30 Mar 2024, 12:11 am by Saloni Khanderia
The doctrine of forum non conveniens, however, is only a discretionary power and can only be invoked if the defendant is able to prove that the current proceedings would be vexatious or oppressive to them and the foreign forum is “clearly or distinctly more appropriate than the Indian courts” (clarified by the Indian Supreme Court in Mayar (HK) Ltd. v. [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
Thus, the lack of a distinctly similar historical regulation, though (again) no doubt relevant, may not be reliably dispositive in Second Amendment challenges to laws addressing modern concerns. [read post]
28 Mar 2024, 3:30 am by David Lynn
” I distinctly recall how the entire audience attending in the ballroom was blown away by Roberta’s thoughtful words that day. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 3:39 pm by Guest Author
  Unanticipated Rivals to State and Federal Power The signers of the Declaration of Independence could count the number of “distinctly American” corporations on one hand plus a thumb.[18] Just six such corporations existed prior to 1776.[19] This number did not explode prior to the ratification of the Constitution.[20] The Framers had no need to regard existing corporations as threats to the sovereignty of the people nor control by the government. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 9:31 am by Harbir Deol
Federal question jurisdiction is anchored in the principle that issues requiring a uniform federal rule to protect distinctly federal interests, including those involving international relations, fall within the purview of federal common law. [read post]