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9 Nov 2016, 6:48 am
The post is long because the opinion describes the facts in the case in detail and is also careful to outline the legal issues and how they are applicable, or are not applicable, to the legal issues in the case. [read post]
In his June 1 remarks responding to the widespread protests and sporadic violence that have spread across the country following the murder of George Floyd, President Trump singled out Washington, D.C., for special treatment. [read post]
24 May 2024, 7:49 am by John Elwood
Roughly speaking, plaintiffs in northern Illinois, which is more urban, lost; plaintiffs in southern Illinois, which is more rural, were successful, and a judge there held that the statute was unconstitutional in all its applications and barred the state from enforcing it. [read post]
13 Apr 2009, 4:00 am
Destefano, No. 07-1428 and 08-328Title VII/Whether municipalities may decline to certify results of an exam that would make disproportionately more white applicants eligible for promotion than minority applicants, due to fears that certifying the results would lead to charges of racial discrimination.o Set for argument April 22, 2009o SCOTUS docket hereo SCOTUSWIKI hereo Cornell Law School/LIIo Noted here: Los Angeles Times; Hartford Courant; SIOP;… [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 12:35 pm by John Elwood
The case also presents the question whether a public-accommodation law that authorizes secular but not religious exemptions is generally applicable under Employment Division v. [read post]
27 May 2008, 9:50 am
Rodriquez, No. 06-1646 A sentence for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is reversed where, for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), the "maximum term of imprisonment . . . prescribed by law" for the state drug convictions at issue was a 10-year maximum set by the applicable state recidivist provision. [read post]
8 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Both Parties Wonder: How much do conventions even matter anymore? [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 7:35 am
Banks, 126 S.Ct. 2572 (2006), held that Mills was not retroactively applicable on collateral review. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 7:10 am by Darren E. Tromblay
One clear example of this activity was the Soviet Union’s (unsuccessful) search for compromising information about Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, who was known for his opposition to Moscow.[3] The KGB attempted to find information indicating that Jackson was a homosexual and, failing to identify anything factual, resorted to a forgery campaign directed at painting him as gay.[4] In today’s political environment, a foreign power could easily conduct similar… [read post]
22 Apr 2021, 5:20 pm by Phil Dixon
This post summarizes published criminal decisions released by the North Carolina Court of Appeals on April 20, 2021. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 5:49 pm by Peter Tillers
John Jackson, Craig Callen & Michael Risinger in New Haven in 2008 James Franklin, professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 5:00 am by Bernard Bell
Many state and local officials host social media sites and use them to converse with followers on matters related to their governmental responsibilities, among other things.[1]  Not surprisingly, many choose to block from their sites certain members of the public they find disagreeable.[2] Being disagreeable, or at least in disagreement with such actions, blocked followers sometimes sue alleging that their exclusion violates the First Amendment.[3]  One of the most notable examples was a… [read post]
1 Nov 2014, 3:09 am
We considered the theories under which government is organized and their application to the United States, the development of a hierarchy of law, its relation to the law developed in international for a, and then considered the issue of legal integrity through the notion of “rule of law” as a political and juridical concept. [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 10:03 am by Abbott & Kindermann
 The court explained that the primary thrust of RPI’s action is the regulatory authority of the Board over the application of the public trust doctrine to interconnected ground and surface water. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 5:08 am
(Indeed, as Jack describes the internal administration disagreements over applicable legal principles, and political strategies about whether to seek further congressional support, it appears to me clear that Jack Goldsmith is Exhibit A for those who hold these concerns: Jack's posture toward congressional statutes like the War Powers Resolution and FISA is to regard them as setting strong presumptive limits on presidential power, rather than Youngstown-Category-I "safe… [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 2:50 pm
Judge Alex Kozinski -- for whom I clerked 20 years ago, who is one of our nation's most prominent appellate judges and who has long been seen as on balance a libertarianish conservative (appointed by President Reagan) -- has recently published an article in the Georgetown Law Journal that says some pretty harsh things about our criminal justice system, and offers some (doubtless controversial) proposals for improving it. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Caroline A. Crenshaw
Thank you Hal [Scott] for that kind introduction and for inviting me to speak today. [read post]