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3 May 2019, 8:15 am
His decision to shoot and kill an unarmed person without warning, apparently because her presence next to his squad car surprised him, is indefensible. [read post]
26 Apr 2019, 11:20 am by Margaret Taylor
In an unprecedented move, the sitting president of the United States on April 22 sued, in his personal capacity, a congressional committee to try to prevent that committee from obtaining documents and information from a third party that had been served with a congressional subpoena. [read post]
20 Apr 2019, 5:45 am
That’s because legalization has not eradicated the indefensible rate at which Black and Latinx people are arrested for marijuana offenses in these states. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 12:39 pm by Kevin Kaufman
In a scenario where the property tax was repealed outright (which is not part of the proposal in either state), tax collections at a particular point in time could serve as the basis for a redistribution formula indefinitely, with increasingly indefensible results as time passes. [read post]
16 Apr 2019, 7:40 pm by Steve Vladeck
Congress has indefensibly barred the transfer of Guantánamo detainees into the United States, even for purposes of criminal trial, and so it’s GTMO or bust for the 40 men still imprisoned there, at least 14 of whom are connected to the commissions. [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 8:42 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Attorney General Bill Barr’s statements today on supposed “spying” by the FBI on the Trump campaign before the Senate Appropriations Committee were indefensible. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 3:08 pm by Immigration Prof
From The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Right Kirstjen Nielsen steps down as Secretary of Homeland Security with an indefensible legacy of cruel and inhumane civil and human rights violations. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 10:46 pm by Florian Mueller
Long gone are the days when intellectual property policy was shaped by a few experts in backroom meetings--experts who spoke the same language, wore the same kinds of clothes, and had largely congruent ideas for the future. [read post]
20 Mar 2019, 10:15 am
Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case against Nuclear Weapons. [read post]
10 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
”Well, yes, it is important that Trump lose, for reasons that go far beyond the content of his policies, even though those policies truly are indefensible—regressive tax cuts, gratuitous attacks on desperate refugees, setting polluters free to poison water supplies, taking away workers’ rights, gutting financial protections in an effort to allow Wall Street to make ever larger profits, and on and on.The reason that the anti-Trump right exists, after all, is almost entirely… [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 5:30 am by Kevin
He said one had “abdicated” in advance of his retirement; he described rulings as “mindless” and “plainly indefensible”; and he suggested the third judge denied his motion not on the merits but because she was mad he insulted one of the other judges. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 7:30 am by Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
It’s indefensible to make it worse in the name of protecting a few banks from having to update their legacy decrypt systems. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 2:28 am by Florian Mueller
Holger Kircher had already suggested that counsel for Qualcomm stipulate to a stay, given that Qualcomm was seeking to differentiate its amended claim (after the original claim turned out to be indefensible) through a claim limitation devoid of any technical substance. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
In our last column, we explored some threshold justiciability issues (focusing on the plaintiff’s standing to sue in federal court) in the recent federal lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR), challenging HLR’s use of race and gender in selecting members and also in selecting authors for publication. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 12:45 am by Steve Lubet
Salaita’s friends and supporters, however, did him no favors by defending his most indefensible tweets, which only served to extend and intensify the controversy. [read post]
28 Jan 2019, 11:00 am by Paul Caron
Mike Rappaport (San Diego), The Indefensibility of U.S. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 2:42 pm by Florian Mueller
Like in the Spotlight cases, Qualcomm had already realized that the patent-in-suit was indefensible in its granted form, and had presented amended claims. [read post]
23 Jan 2019, 3:23 pm by Florian Mueller
Given that Qualcomm is under massive pressure in the FTC's antitrust case in the Northern District of California (with its exorbitant royalties--towering above all other licensors--being indefensible, virtually the entire industry apart from Nokia complaining about it sconduct, and key questions relating to its refusal to license rival chipset makers having been decided on summary judgment), its lawyers will be glad to have some preliminary good news to report to their client:The… [read post]