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7 Aug 2020, 6:57 am by Richard Garnett
Board of Education, Justice Hugo Black of Alabama presented as canonical a potted and partial history of America’s religious-freedom experience in which a Virginia controversy and Jefferson’s passing reference to a “wall of separation between Church and State” — and not the broad range of views about the meaning of disestablishment — were foundational and controlling. [read post]
23 Jul 2020, 8:40 am by Eugene Volokh
Other states had similar though slightly differently worded statutes, which banned attempts to "directly or indirectly" influence votes by "bribery[,] menace or other corrupt means or device. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 10:14 am by Melody McDonald Lanier
“It’s time for Tarrant County prosecutors to reconsider the efficacy and cost of the death penalty as a means of achieving justice, particularly when the option of life in prison without the possibility of parole is increasingly palatable to jurors. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 4:15 pm by Ronald Mann
” Given the common pattern of state violation of Native American enclaves, it makes little sense, Gorsuch reasons, to “rel[y] on state practices to determine the meaning of the [Major Crimes Act]”: [J]ust imagine what it would mean to indulge that path. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 6:31 am by JB
Alabama, a unanimous 1883 decision of the Supreme Court. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 2:31 pm by Michele Goodwin
Many of these states (though not all) are former slave states, such as Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas. [read post]
29 Jun 2020, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
In Alabama and Tennessee, the states immediately conceded in pending litigation that their admitting-privilege laws were unconstitutional. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 5:14 am by Richard Altieri, Margaret Taylor
Lucy, an African American graduate student, enrolled at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, pursuant to a court order in the case of Lucy v. [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 9:39 am by Eugene Volokh
Jackson explained on behalf of the court in the landmark decision of West Virginia State Board of Education v. [read post]