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25 Mar 2022, 2:38 pm by Sam Callahan and Allon Kedem
That statute — little-known but vitally important to the railroad industry — requires railroads to perform regular inspections and to implement a host of safety measure for their locomotives, the powered vehicles that pull the rest of the train. [read post]
21 Mar 2022, 7:57 pm by Amy Howe
After a little over an hour of debate, the justices seemed inclined to allow the legislators to intervene in some capacity, but – with Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized with an infection and two more justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, relatively quiet – it is hard to make predictions with any certainty. [read post]
18 Mar 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
James Little became the first defendant to receive a combination of a 60-day jail term and 36 months of probation. [read post]
11 Mar 2022, 6:51 am by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
Most jurors had little to no knowledge about the jury system before they were summoned to serve. [read post]
11 Mar 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Three of the court’s dissenting conservatives – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch – said they would have intervened, and they thought the theory advanced by the challengers was probably correct and they are eager to consider such a challenge. [read post]
7 Mar 2022, 6:42 pm by Amy Howe
Proponents of the theory, known as the “independent state legislature” theory, believe that the Constitution gives state legislatures nearly unfettered authority to write the rules for federal elections, with little or no oversight from state courts. [read post]
28 Feb 2022, 11:35 am by Jennifer N. Le
Justice Clarence Thomas from the Supreme Court even subtly advised Congress to address legalization, noting that the Federal Government’s current “half in, half out regime” on cannabis strained the principles of federalism. [read post]
23 Feb 2022, 4:48 pm by Amy Howe
Justice Samuel Alito left little doubt that he thought the states should be able to intervene. [read post]
16 Feb 2022, 10:12 pm by Josh Blackman
" Beyond that, little is publicly known about her father's death in 1980, except that the Associated Press reported at the time that that he "died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. [read post]
14 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Shortly after his 1991 confirmation, Justice Clarence Thomas famously quipped “I ain’t evolving. [read post]
9 Feb 2022, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
" Whatever President Bush 1 said about his selection of Clarence Thomas, everyone knows that it was important to Bush to name a Black Justice to replace Justice Thurgood Marshall.Perhaps most glaringly, for some time it was common to speak of a "Jewish seat" on the Court. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 4:00 am by Sherry F. Colb
Bush selected Clarence Thomas because the latter is Black, notwithstanding Thomas's lack of much experience on the bench. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 8:27 am by Eugene Volokh
And once a person's public reputation is destroyed, there is little opportunity for rehabilitation. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 7:30 am by Amy Howe
She told senators that, during her time as a public defender, she was “struck” by how little her clients understood about the legal process, despite the obviously serious implications of criminal proceedings for their lives. [read post]
26 Jan 2022, 11:11 am by Amy Howe
As Rory Little observed, that office has “yielded an unusual share of prominent federal judges and Justices over the past half century,” including the late Justice Antonin Scalia and the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist. [read post]
25 Jan 2022, 5:14 am by Marcia Coyle
But in little more than a year now, the justices have agreed to decide not only whether racial preferences in higher education continue to be constitutional, but whether to overrule their landmark abortion rights precedent, Roe v. [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 12:17 pm by John Floyd
Now, maybe some of it is COVID making people a little crazy. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 12:04 pm by Elizabeth McElvein, Benjamin Wittes
So the following analysis is necessarily at least a little bit tentative at least until the Court issues a formal denial of certiorari. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 9:38 am by Suzanna Sherry
Justice Stephen Breyer worried that the museum’s approach to choice of law under the FSIA “sounds a little complicated. [read post]