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1 Jun 2018, 7:55 am by Andrew Hamm
Thomas wrote in five, Justice Stephen Breyer in four, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in three, Justice Samuel Alito in two and the others in one apiece. [read post]
25 May 2018, 6:02 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
(Sadly for connoisseurs of elaborately named international-law treatise writers, Samuel von Pufendorf failed to make the cut). [read post]
21 May 2018, 2:16 pm by Andrew Hamm
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit applied the standard for Section 1983 claims by prisoners that Friendly had articulated in Johnson v. [read post]
4 May 2018, 4:18 pm
An earlier saying occurs in Virgil's Aeneid: "facilis descensus Averno (the descent to hell is easy)"....Authors who have used the phrase include Charlotte Brontë, Lord Byron, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott,[16] Søren Kierkegaard,[17] and Karl Marx. [read post]
30 Apr 2018, 7:23 am by Eugene Volokh
The only possibly relevant definition of "press" in Samuel Johnson's 1755-1756 dictionary referred just to the printing press; the same was true of the 1790 edition and of Noah Webster's 1806 A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, published in America. [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 11:28 am by Christine Corcos
Here, for Lapham's Quarterly, Richard Cohen examines Samuel Johnson's unfulfilled desire to become a lawyer. [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 11:28 am
Here, for Lapham's Quarterly, Richard Cohen examines Samuel Johnson's unfulfilled desire to become a lawyer. [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 10:00 am by Eliot Kim
Relying on Johnson, the Ninth Circuit ruled in Dimaya’s favor. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 4:08 am by Edith Roberts
Kevin Johnson analyzes the opinion for this blog. [read post]
17 Apr 2018, 11:32 am by Kevin Johnson
” Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 9:11 am by Guest Blogger
Consider, for example the case of Louis Milic, a computational stylistician, who studied the relative frequency of initial determiners and initial connectives in the sentences of Swift, Macaulay, Addison, Gibbon and Samuel Johnson. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 9:11 am by Guest Blogger
Consider, for example the case of Louis Milic, a computational stylistician, who studied the relative frequency of initial determiners and initial connectives in the sentences of Swift, Macaulay, Addison, Gibbon and Samuel Johnson. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 4:22 am by Edith Roberts
” In an interview at PRI, Kevin Johnson discusses the court’s decision this week in Jennings v. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 4:00 am by Eric Appleby
But Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great writer and lexicographer said “How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice”. [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 1:30 pm by Dan Ernst
There was an excruciating dilemma for President Lyndon Johnson. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 5:13 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“Ninety years after the first edition appeared, the OED – a distant, far bulkier descendant of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary – is currently embarked on a third edition, a goliath project that involves overhauling every entry (many of which have not been touched since the late-Victorian era) and adding at least some of those 30,000 missing words, as well as making the dictionary into a fully digital resource. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 4:20 am by Edith Roberts
” At Reason’s Hit and Run blog, Damon Root maintains that “[a] major split seems to be developing between conservative justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito over the issue of property rights and the Fourth Amendment,” as evidenced most recently during last month’s oral argument in Byrd v. [read post]