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29 Jan 2016, 4:14 pm by Lyle Denniston
United States — Retroactivity of the Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 11:37 am by CJLF Staff
"  Six justices agreed that the phrase was unconstitutional, determining that defendant Samuel James Johnson's prior convictions, which added five additional years to his 2012 sentence in which he pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges, does not qualify as a felony under the law. [read post]
20 May 2020, 5:02 am by Judge Robert Bacharach
Samuel Johnson supplied a clue: "The true art of memory is the art of attention. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 12:31 pm by Marie S. Newman
" The other reference-book luminaries that Altschiller includes are Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, Peter Mark Roget, Henry Campbell Black of Black's Law Dictionary fame, and the Reverend Ebenezer Cobham Brewer who compiled Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, a literally irreplaceable reference work in the pre-Internet era. [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]
26 Feb 2012, 4:06 am by Ray Mullman
Samuel Johnson, the great critic who himself once hoped to enter the bar, knew better: “A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause” — that is “to be decided by the judge. [read post]
14 Jul 2013, 2:56 pm by Ann Tweedy
Wright (Postdoctoral Scholar at Chicago):  “‘A More Exact Purity’: Legal Authority and Conspicuous Amalgamation in Eighteenth-Century English Law Guides and the Oxford Law Lectures of Sir Robert Chambers and Samuel Johnson. [read post]
13 Jan 2019, 5:14 am
Seems like another one of the many euphemisms for masturbation.But the NYT is not Wisconsin, so it must be brat — rhymes with "slat" — "a child, so called in contempt" (to quote Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary of the English Language"). [read post]
8 Sep 2018, 9:32 am by Ward Farnsworth
Once you are familiar with what the Stoics wrote, you will hear echoes of it—sometimes more than echoes—in countless later writers: Shakespeare, Montaigne, Samuel Johnson, Adam Smith, Emerson, Nietzsche, and many others. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 9:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
   To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, one never tires of its attractions.What projects are you currently working on? [read post]
9 Jul 2018, 4:49 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
Prior to 2008, cloture motions to end debate had only ever been filed on four Supreme Court nominations: Fortas in 1968, William Rehnquist in 1971; Rehnquist again in 1986 (for elevation to Chief Justice) and Samuel Alito in 2006. [read post]
10 Jan 2016, 7:06 am
Wikipedia gives a few examples of epigraphs, including the Samuel Johnson quote — "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" — that begins Hunter S. [read post]
15 Jan 2016, 6:29 am by Jonathan H. Adler
  The English lexicographer Samuel Johnson wrote in 1756 that the word “natural” means “native,” and the word “native” in turn means either an “inhabitant” or an “offspring. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 1:07 pm by Stephen D. Rosenberg
When it comes to claims of futility as an explanation for failing to exhaust administrative remedies in pursuing benefits under an ERISA governed plan, I have long summed up my feelings with a pithy rephrasing of Samuel Johnson’s famous line about patriotism, which I have turned into the somewhat flippant comment that “futility is the last refuge of the participant who is not entitled to benefits. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 5:14 am by Eugene Volokh
But here is Samuel Johnson's first definition of "executive": "Having the quality of executing or performing. [read post]