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29 Sep 2014, 12:15 pm by admin
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia; Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Carl Stewart; Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Catharina Haynes, Stephen Higginson, Leslie Southwick, and Jennifer Elrod; U.S. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 1:09 pm by jarogeti
When the Senate returns from its recess a week from Monday, they are scheduled to vote upon the nomination of Stephen Higginson to be a judge for the U.S. [read post]
Judge Stephen Higginson dissented and argued that “under the majority’s rule, the defendant wins by default whenever the government fails to prove that a statute unambiguously criminalizes the defendant’s conduct. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 3:03 pm by David Lat
[Instapundit] * Professor Orin Kerr notes Professor Stephen Higginson’s swift movement onto the Fifth Circuit — in apparent violation of the rule in judicial nominations “that a circuit court nominee with Supreme-Court-level credentials will have a harder time getting confirmed than a nominee without those credentials. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 2:03 pm by alynch
Attorney Stephen Higginson for the U.S. [read post]
29 Sep 2014, 12:15 pm by admin
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia; Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Carl Stewart; Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Catharina Haynes, Stephen Higginson, Leslie Southwick, and Jennifer Elrod; U.S. [read post]
9 Sep 2019, 3:06 pm by Alan S. Kaplinsky
  Two of the three judges on the All American Check Cashing panel, Judge Jerry Smith and Senior Judge Patrick Higginbotham, were appointed by President Reagan, and the third judge, Judge Stephen Higginson, was appointed by President Obama. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 12:17 pm by Helen Norton
(In A Short History of the Right to Petition Government for the Redress of Grievances, 96 Yale L.J. 142 (1986), Stephen Higginson later assigned this particular episode the blame for the Court’s contemporary conflation of free speech and petition clause rights – a development now bemoaned by Justice Scalia in his partial dissent to last month’s petition clause decision). [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 11:28 am by jarogeti
On Monday, Loyola University New Orleans law professor Stephen Higginson was confirmed to the U.S. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 8:01 am by David Ingram
On a voice vote, the committee sent three other nominations to the full Senate: Stephen Higginson, an assistant U.S. attorney in New Orleans, for the U.S. [read post]
26 Dec 2014, 8:09 am
The Opinion The Fifth Circuit partially vacated the District Court’s order, in part affirmed the order , and remanded part of the case back to the District Court in a decision written by Judge Stephen Higginson. [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by John Dean
” [Citing James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity 21 (1993 [1873]).] [read post]
16 Aug 2023, 3:28 am by jonathanturley
” What was most striking was the concurrence of Judge Stephen Higginson, who registered his clear disagreement with Bruen: “It is also important to acknowledge that other gun safety laws, especially longstanding status-based prohibitions previously understood to be constitutionally unassailable, have been recently struck down by courts across the country as they attempt to faithfully implement Bruen. [read post]
9 Aug 2023, 2:54 pm by Eugene Volokh
Daniels, written by Judge Jerry Smith and joined by Judges Stephen Higginson and Don Willett, holds that this violates the Second Amendment: Just as there was no historical justification for disarming a citizen of sound mind, there is no tradition that supports disarming a sober citizen who is not currently under an impairing influence. [read post]