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6 Mar 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
It praised biometric ID and requirements such as those enacted in Rhode Island and Michigan. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 5:45 am by Mark Graber
Charging a grand jury in Rhode Island after the Dorr Rebellion, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story elaborated on the well-established common/constitutional law of treason and insurrection. [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
” The complaint alleges Sun made threats against officials with the city, interfered with a lawful court order, violated state custodial interference laws, and engaged in disorderly conduct. [read post]
8 Jul 2023, 4:26 am by jonathanturley
We previously discussed how academics like University of Rhode Island Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of History Erik Loomis denounce statistics and science as “inherently racist. [read post]
24 Apr 2023, 7:00 am by Guest Blogger
The petitioners—a group of high school students in Rhode Island, which requires no high school civics—opted for a partial victory by negotiating a settlement with the state that included creation of a “Civic Readiness Task Force” rather than petitioning to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court (whose majority does not seem receptive to recognizing any right to education). [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
It's what happened in the middle of the 19th century in Rhode Island during the Dorr Rebellion, which gave rise to the SCOTUS non-justiciability ruling in Luther v. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
The spectacle of, say, Justice John Paul Stevens (whom I much admired) serving for 34 years until he retired at the age of 90, is unknown not only abroad, but even more to the point, everywhere else in the United States (save, perhaps, Rhode Island). [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  As it happens, my colleague John Golden and I are writing a paper together in which we offer a critique of the notion of states as “laboratories of experimentation,” which, even if true and justifying federalism per se, would still not justify equal voting power in the Senate. [read post]
23 Aug 2022, 5:01 am by Roger Parloff
Haldeman, and former White House Assistant for Domestic Affairs John D. [read post]
12 Aug 2022, 11:29 am by Eugene Volokh
Under Rhode Island law, a false light claim cannot be based on the publication of statements that are substantially true. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 3:33 pm by Edward T. Kang
In response to appeals from the U.S. trustee, and the states of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia, the court held that the Bankruptcy Code does not authorize the plan’s nonconsensual release of third-party nondebtors, like the Sacklers, thus leaving the states’ authority to file further actions against the Sacklers intact. [read post]
1 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
A federal judge in a civil suit related to the committee’s work concluded this year that Trump and one of his legal advisers, John Eastman, most likely had committed felonies. [read post]
14 Jan 2022, 12:30 pm by John Ross
Does Rhode Island violate the constitutional rights of schoolchildren throughout the state by failing to provide them with enough civics education to be responsible citizens? [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 8:26 pm by David Kopel
In some counties of New York, as in some jurisdictions in California, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Delaware, applicants for a concealed carry license may be denied unless they show  some specific, special need to carry a licensed handgun, beyond the general purpose of self-defense. [read post]