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29 Feb 2024, 4:30 am by Lawrence Solum
  Here is the abstract: In 1868, three years after the conclusion of the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the 14th Amendment was ratified and became part of the United States Constitution. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 7:53 am by Rick Pildes
While Andrew Jackson, with his rhetorical creation of the “plebiscitary presidency,” and Abraham Lincoln, with his invocation of presidential war powers during the existential military threat of the Civil War, were among the most powerful and activist of all presidents, the nineteenth-century presidency was essentially a narrowly understood office that presided over a highly decentralized and fragmented political system. [read post]
2 Sep 2007, 11:25 am
And the most controversial part of Mark's book is his not-so-implicit criticism of a system of presidential election that put Abraham Lincoln in the White House with 40% of a completely regional popular vote. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 5:04 pm
Jackson, was appointed by Abraham Lincoln and held court in the western Union counties until they became West Virginia, then served on as district court judge in West Virginia for another forty years, becoming known as the "Iron Judge. [read post]
10 Feb 2008, 9:00 am
 "No less renowned a figure than Abraham Lincoln recognized the desirability of settlement when possible...it borders on the offensive for a party to claim that a justice should be recused for adhering to this policy [of encouraging settlement]. [read post]
In Automated Vehicles and Manufacturer Responsibility for Accidents: A New Legal Regime for a New Era, which I co-write with Kenneth Abraham at the University of Virginia, we proposed  replacing the tort remedy with a no-fault system, similar to the workers’ compensation model. [read post]
26 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm by Charles E. Binkley
Known within the Abrahamic religions, Job suffers the death of his children, the loss of his property and the destruction of his own body. [read post]
26 Feb 2011, 4:33 am by SHG
  Former Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham claimed that Wright wasn’t entitled to testing because he had confessed to the crime. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 3:38 am by pete.black@gmail.com (Peter Black)
 The Other Shooter: The Saddest and Most Expensive 26 Seconds of Amateur Film Ever Made:  Because the President’s limousine passed almost exactly in front of Dallas clothing manufacturer Abraham Zapruder on Nov. 22, 1963, just as he was playing with his new film camera, and precisely at the moment that Lee Harvey Oswald fired his rifle from a nearby books depository, his silent, 26.6-second home movie has become the focal point of America’s collective memory on that… [read post]
20 May 2015, 5:31 am
Did this make Abraham Lincoln a lawless president (as some have seriously argued)? [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 12:44 pm by Keith E. Whittington
If Democrats had controlled Congress in 1865 and attempted to unseat Abraham Lincoln in order to turn the presidency over to Andrew Johnson, then Republicans would have had something to complain about. [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
I was there in 2005 next to pioneering District Attorney Lynne Abraham as we introduced this massive, detailed document of decades of abuse and cover up by Cardinals Krol and Bevilacqua and others. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 9:59 pm
Bernard Geis Associates, Abraham Zapruder, a Dallas dress manufacturer, was taking home movie pictures with his camera, when, by sheer happenstance, he captured President Kennedy’s assassination on film. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 3:39 pm by Josh Blackman
And Abraham Lincoln, actually his Attorney General, disagreed with that and actually issued a passport, a federal passport, to a black, which could only issue if that black were really citizen and Lincoln's Justice Department and Lincoln's excuse me, administration, his attorney general Bates took the position, that blacks were citizen, could be citizens under the Constitution, and the Dred Scott was just wrong. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 9:30 pm by Melissa L. Greipp
I don’t really have a “lawyer from history that I admire most,” but if I had to pick someone it would probably be a lawyer turned politician like Abraham Lincoln or Huey Long. [read post]
27 May 2015, 9:00 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
That same pattern has emerged in state after state, like Pennsylvania, where Philadelphia District Attorneys Lynne Abraham and Seth Williams put together thorough documentation in 2005 and 2011 Grand Jury Reports, and Minnesota, where statute of limitations reform has opened the door to the justice system that in turn has revealed the specifics of the cover-up. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 8:04 pm by Jay Grenig
Abraham Lincoln said it eloquently in his Gettysburg Address: But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 3:34 am
Judgment for defendants Counsel: For the claimant: James Abrahams For the first defendant: Anna Edwards-Stuart For the second defendant: Daniel Alexander QC, Charlotte May Solicitors: For the claimant: Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP For the first defendant: Manches LLP For the second defendant: Herbert Smith LLP LTL 6/8/2012 [read post]