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31 Jul 2012, 7:59 am by Steve Hall
Black says Druery’s awareness of his upcoming death sentence is not the same as having a “rational understanding” of why the state wants to execute him. [read post]
22 Jun 2015, 4:52 am by SHG
Amnesty’s report also charges that the laws on lethal force in 13 states do not even meet the less stringent constitutional standard set by the 1985 US supreme court case Tennessee v Garner. [read post]
20 Nov 2007, 1:19 pm
Today Chicago law firm Hurley McKenna & Mertz, filed suit against Charles Bickerstaff and the Boy Scouts of America and the Black Hawk Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America for civil damages arising out of the sexual abuse of their minor client while Bickerstaff was the Senior District Executive for the Black hawk Area Council in Rockford, Illinois. [read post]
15 Jan 2025, 11:05 am by Scott Bomboy
Roberts, and Hugo Black agreed with Chief Justice Hughes on the ratification deadline question. [read post]
22 Mar 2023, 1:05 pm by Dani Selby
In 2016, Swarns served as lead counsel for Buck, arguing Buck v. [read post]
18 Dec 2024, 10:01 pm by rhapsodyinbooks
  The effect of the state constitutional provision was to prevent former male slaves and their descendants from voting since the vast majority of black males could not vote on January 1, 1866. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 8:40 am by JB
They wanted to use originalism to overturn Plessy v. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 2:49 pm
My research at the time revealed that most provisions which courts voided as an impermissible penalty were the product of sloppy lawyering.The black-letter law concerning liquidated - or agreed - damages clauses is fairly consistent from state to state. [read post]
3 Jun 2016, 7:59 am by Steve Lubet
  There is much more to the opinion in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. [read post]