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Mike Johnson’s Visit to Columbia Ups the Ante in the Right-Wing Attack on Universities

25 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat

The right mounted court challenges with mixed results for decades, until this June when the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. [read post]

Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/

In Kansas, the ACLU Is Challenging Anti-Trans Laws in Court, and by Building Community

25 Apr 2024, 1:12 pm by ACLU

Kansas v. [read post]

ACLU News & Commentary - https://www.aclu.org/news/

Paraquat Shape-Shifting Expert Witness Quashed

24 Apr 2024, 11:27 am by admin

Another multi-district litigation (MDL) has hit a jarring speed bump. [read post]

Tortini - http://schachtmanlaw.com/blog/

American Autocracy Threat Tracker

24 Apr 2024, 5:57 am by Norman L. Eisen

This autocracy threat tracker is also available as a PDF file. [read post]

Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/

"Do you think that someone who is a drug addict is absolutely incapable of -- that all people who are drug addicts are absolutely incapable of refraining from using drugs?..."

23 Apr 2024, 5:17 am

There's a precedent, Robinson v. [read post]

Althouse - https://althouse.blogspot.com

Ruelas v. County of Alameda (Cal. Supreme Ct. - April 22, 2024)

22 Apr 2024, 4:30 pm

That's just, honestly, not something that I think is just, or -- at a minimum -- something that I really want to devote the (increasingly) limited hours of my remaining lifetime to accomplishing.I say that not to pick on -- at all -- the (winning) counsel for appellants here. [read post]

California Appellate Report - http://calapp.blogspot.com/

Confidential Informants, Motions to Reveal Identity, and Discovery: Part I, Roviaro v. U.S.

22 Apr 2024, 10:40 am by Daniel Spiegel

See Roviaro; McCray v. [read post]

North Carolina Criminal Law Blog - http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/

Why Trump Will Likely be Held in Contempt and What Then

22 Apr 2024, 10:01 am by Norman L. Eisen

Trial in The People of the State of New York vs. [read post]

Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/

Having More Than One Employer Does Not Necessarily Justify an Employee’s Termination

22 Apr 2024, 5:00 am by Written on behalf of Peter McSherry

He was further bolstered in his conclusion that MH had quit, in that she contacted him to organize a time for her to pick up her things from the employer’s premises. [read post]

Guelph Employment Law Blog - https://petermcsherry.ca/blog/

Having More Than One Employer Does Not Necessarily Justify an Employee’s Termination

22 Apr 2024, 5:00 am by Written on behalf of Peter McSherry

He was further bolstered in his conclusion that MH had quit, in that she contacted him to organize a time for her to pick up her things from the employer’s premises. [read post]

Peter McSherry Blog - http://petermcsherry.ca/blog/

BC Court of Appeal Recognizes the Myth of False Allegations of Intimate Partner Violence

22 Apr 2024, 4:01 am by Deanne Sowter

By April 2021, the criminal no contact order had been amended to provide an exception for pick-ups and drop-offs (see 2023 BCSC 940 at paras 13, 33), once again allowing contact. [read post]

Slaw - http://www.slaw.ca/

[Steven Calabresi] Special Counsel Jack Smith Lacks Standing to Defend the D.C. Circuit's ruling on Presidential Immunity in the Supreme Court

21 Apr 2024, 2:25 pm by Steven Calabresi

Smith can no more defend the lower court order than can any random person picked off the street. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Ninth Circuit Rules Against Seattle in Using “Heckler’s Veto” in Arrest of Pro-Life Protester

20 Apr 2024, 3:57 am by jonathanturley

In Meinecke v. [read post]

Jonathan Turley - https://jonathanturley.org/

Lottery Offences (s. 206, 207, 207.1 and 209) Charges in Canada: Offences, Defences, Punishments

19 Apr 2024, 11:35 am by Michael Oykhman

Lottery offences are covered under s. 206, 207, 207.1 and 209 of the Criminal Code, found in Part VII. [read post]

Oykhman Criminal Defence Law Criminal FAQ - https://www.oykhmancriminaldefence.com/faq/

[Eugene Volokh] Seattle Improperly Imposed a "Heckler's Veto" on Street Preacher at "an Abortion Rally and an LGBTQ Pride Event"

19 Apr 2024, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh

From yesterday's decision in Meinecke v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

[Josh Blackman] Justice Kavanaugh's Concurrence in Labrador v. Poe

18 Apr 2024, 2:44 pm by Josh Blackman

Each conception of the status quo is defensible, but there is no sound or principled reason to pick one over another as a rule to apply in all cases involving new laws. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Anti-Textualism, Hostages, and Assymetric Partisan Dishonesty, Part One

18 Apr 2024, 11:39 am by Neil H. Buchanan

More than two decades after the shock of Bush v. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

[Josh Blackman] Justice Gorsuch's Concurrence in Labrador v. Poe

18 Apr 2024, 11:02 am by Josh Blackman

Arizona v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Don’t Count Your Judicial Vultures Before They Hatch

18 Apr 2024, 7:49 am by Dan Farber

There have been some striking rulings cutting back on agency power, such as West Virginia v. [read post]