Search for: "STEVENS LAND "
Results 341 - 360
of 1,762
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
20 Feb 2019, 10:32 am
Thaddeus Stevens,18 wanted to grant freed slaves full civil rights, both out of moral sentiment and to create a Republican power base.19 The “black codes”20 and laws that denied freedmen entry into the states21 hampered the Radicals’ goals, as did Supreme Court precedent favoring states rights (often regarding slavery).22 After President Johnson vetoed23 a civil rights bill24 that would have eliminated the black codes, Stevens sought to usurp power from the… [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 5:00 am
I send thanks to Attorney Steven A. [read post]
17 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
The landowners claim that the administration plans to use its emergency declaration to authorize seizing their land. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 2:06 pm
Founder John Stevens Berry reminisced about the prior location on the day of the move. [read post]
12 Feb 2019, 4:15 am
” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie writes that “[a]side from acknowledging the religious discrimination of their previous policy, this move matched similarly fraught strategies of addressing racial discrimination claims during the civil-rights era. [read post]
12 Feb 2019, 4:00 am
Steven Larrabee was convicted by court-martial of two offenses arising out of a drunken incident at a privately owned bar in Japan, during which he sexually assaulted a fellow bartender. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 10:51 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer; Tauluseinä Tavelväggen, Wall of Printings (1977); Nörrköping Art Museum Turku Findland))Every year for almost 25 years, the Corporate Practice Commentator (with great thanks to Robert Thompson (Georgetown)) announces the results of its annual poll to select the ten best corporate and securities articles. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 10:01 am
., Stevens v. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm
What if the racist council members are defeated in the next election, but the city, still in need of a sewage treatment plant, hires an outside expert who concludes that the original site best accommodates the city’s needs, including the cost of acquiring land? [read post]
21 Jan 2019, 5:35 am
” –Steven Silverberg [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 11:32 am
[Thanks to Steven H. [read post]
31 Dec 2018, 3:46 am
American Humanist Association, a challenge to the placement on public land of a World War I memorial shaped like a cross, Gary McCaleb, a former wildland firefighter, implores “atheists and courts [to] let us honor our fallen as we will,” maintaining that “[n]o reasonable person would mistake the purpose of those crosses, and no legal principle should justify toppling them one by one. [read post]
28 Dec 2018, 2:22 pm
Still, the fallacy was as well recognized at the time of the Daubert argument as it is today, and it is noteworthy that the law professor who argued the plaintiffs’ case, in the highest court of the land, advanced this fallacious argument, and that the scientific and statistical community did little to nothing to correct the error.7 Although Professor Gottesman’s meaning in the oral argument is not entirely clear, on multiple occasions, he appeared to have conflated the… [read post]
26 Dec 2018, 3:01 am
“Elephant Habeas Case: Steven Wise’s Forum Shopping Apparently Fails” [Ted Folkman, Letters Blogatory, earlier here and here] Right now owners of gas stations in D.C. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm
In the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in a Michigan land dispute earlier this year, I explained in a column for this site that the non-ideological divisions between the justices on display in the case reflected disagreement on a deep question about the very nature of law: How general must a legislative command be to count as a law? [read post]
17 Dec 2018, 11:15 pm
:"12/10/2018 at 4:45- Arrived at location to relieve previous server [so they were basically camping outside the property]5:40pm-Black Land Rover SUV arrived with female adult and minor male5:45pm- Minor male came out to pedestrian gate and duct taped it closed [document by the photo shown further above]6:26pm- Black SUV left residence and returned at 6:35pm.10:00pm-No activity. [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 8:57 am
As early as 1980, for instance, Justice John Paul Stevens called attempts to reconcile the decisions stemming from Lemon as a “Sisyphean task. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 10:03 am
Case in point: A few years ago, a federal court in Montana was asked to declare unlawful the presence on leased Forest Service land near the top of Whitefish Mountain Resort of a beloved, if somewhat kitschy, statue of Christ that was put up in the 1950s by the Knights of Columbus to honor World War II soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division. [read post]
30 Nov 2018, 4:20 am
For The Economist, Steven Mazie reports after Wednesday’s oral argument in Timbs v. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 9:14 pm
Contents include:Colin Harvey, Leaving the Union: Brexit and Complex Constitutionalism in Northern Ireland Anne Smith & Leo Green, The Processes of the 'Unfinished Businesses' of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement: An All-Island Charter of Rights and the Northern Ireland Bill of Rights Imelda Maher, Crossing the Irish Land Border after Brexit: The Common Travel Area and the Challenge of Trade CRG Murray, Aoife O'Donoghue & Ben TC Warwick, The Implications of the… [read post]
