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16 Jun 2008, 9:47 pm
A century later Westlaw founder John West began collecting U.S. court decisions as they were issued and compiling them in volumes he called “reporters,” so lawyers could keep track of the law as it evolved. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 10:00 am
For a list of proposed amendments in plain English, click (here). [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 9:02 pm
Before this year, the few of us who had heard of Mick Mulvaney knew only that he was one of the Republican Party’s most extreme anti-government ideologues, a leading Tea Partier who helped to force out John Boehner as Speaker of the House and who was willing to hold the debt ceiling hostage as a means to advance his reactionary agenda.Now, Mulvaney has been installed as Donald Trump’s budget director, and his job is to try to explain to the American people why Trump’s… [read post]
8 Mar 2021, 10:44 pm
Washington's request must have struck him as reasonable enough, since English sovereigns regularly sought advice from their courts. [read post]
11 Jan 2010, 10:46 am
Liu and John Wiley & Sons v. [read post]
3 May 2016, 12:18 pm
From the obituary of Daniel Aaron — "Critic and Historian Who Pioneered American Studies" — who has died at the age of 103 and who "described himself as 'a citizen of two Americas'":“One of them is the country of Uncle Sam... an America, in the words of Herman Melville, ‘intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in the externals but savage at heart.' The other is its blessed double, home of heroes… [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 10:40 am
Saviour’s Castle in Normandy, did not do enough to defend the castle which Sir John Annesley had inherited through marriage. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 1:14 pm
Does an Idaho court have personal jurisdiction over an English company in a case about a plane crash in Indiana that killed someone from Louisiana? [read post]
17 Sep 2021, 1:06 pm
Transgender English professor seeks tenure but is denied under suspicious circumstances. [read post]
27 Aug 2021, 1:14 pm
Join us, as the Eleventh Circuit takes us on a jaunt through the English Common Law and the concept of "customary use" after the town of Redington Beach, Fla. passes an ord [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 8:00 am
Common law jurists like Sir Edward Coke had claimed that the English constitution was fixed. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 5:33 am
I loved the statement of Senator John Daniel of Virginia, opposing international copyright in 1891: “It is a bastile [sic] of letters which is here constructed, and not a republic. [read post]
9 May 2014, 7:34 am
John Bouvier wrote the first American dictionary in 1839 as a response to the difficulties he encountered in his admission to the bar. [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 11:12 am
Kent Newmyer, John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court (2007). [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 6:30 am
By contrast, there is no official language in the United States, although some thirty states have designated English to be just that. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 8:40 am
John Elwood reviews Tuesday’s relists. [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 3:04 am
Except the use of “you was,” a one-off example from John Adams in 1800, never felt nonstandard to the rest of Americans since they never used it. [read post]
26 Dec 2020, 12:01 am
Women in Upper Canada, however, were unable to vote because English Common Law did not grant them property. [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 9:40 am
By John L. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 11:56 pm
The article concerned a Mr Andrew Johns, an Australian Rugby League player who had expressed a desire to play a game for an English football club, thereby generating a public debate about the propriety of doing so and about his commitment to his own team, the Kangaroos. [read post]
