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12 Sep 2014, 6:31 am by Howard Wasserman
Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch decide whether to prosecute Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown raises several concerns, notably related to his comments and actions during the Ferguson protests/riots (depending on your perspective) and a generally poor track record with such cases. [read post]
2 Sep 2017, 8:50 am by Walter Olson
” [Michael Grunwald, Politico, more] And from July, “Reforming the National Flood Insurance Program: Toward Private Flood Insurance” [Ike Brannon and Ari Blask, Cato Policy Analysis] More: “Lack of Zoning Is Not Houston’s Problem” [Vanessa Brown Calder, Cato] Tags: disasters, environment, Houston, insurance, land use and zoning “How Washington Made Harvey Worse” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our… [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 8:40 am by John Pfaff
The failure to secure indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases highlighted this problem. [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 5:31 am by Howard Wasserman
Robert Goldstein at UCLA asked the following question on his First Amendment exam: Write a memorandum for District Attorney Robert McCulloch on the constitutional merits of indicting Michael Brown's stepfather for advocating illegal activity when he yelled 'Burn this bitch down,' after McCulloch announced the grand jury's decision. [read post]
11 Mar 2015, 10:43 am by Kate Levine
In the wake of the unindicted police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, many commentators, have highlighted the problematic relationship between local district attorneys and police... [read post]
22 Aug 2014, 7:31 am by Howard Wasserman
We are talking less about the triggering events--the possible murder/possible unconstitutionally excessive police shooting of Michael Brown,(*) the underlying racial atmosphere that made that shooting more likely, and systematic constitutional problems within the Ferguson Police Department--than about the First Amendment problems with how police have responded (and continue to respond) to peaceful protests in a public forum.(**) This has become a miniature of the Civil Rights… [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 11:33 am
The committee voted 16-7 in favor of a proposal put forth by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT; at left) and Michael Enzi (R-WY; below right), and rejected Senator Sherrod Brown's (D-OH) amendment for a 5-year data exclusivity term. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 10:30 am by Dan Ernst
The legal historians at Boston College have had the wit to use this year's Constitution Day to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act by inviting Michael Vorenberg, Brown University, to speak on "The Fourteenth Amendment as an Act of War. [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Park, Annette Gordon-Reed, Michael Klarman, Kenneth Mack, Diana Eck, and Katherine Franke. [read post]
26 Oct 2015, 6:02 am by Paul Horwitz
Michael Dorf and Larry Solum have a very interesting and mutually respectful dialogue on constitutional interpretive methodology, here (Dorf), here (Solum), here (Dorf), and here (Solum). [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 6:10 pm by Howard Wasserman
William Saletan at Slate reports on a recent study showing that more whites believe the Michael Brown grand jury was right but the Eric Garner grand jury was wrong. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 12:49 am by Eric Miller
After the police shootings of Michael Brown and Tamir Rice (and the litany of other African American men and boys and girls too), white folks began to discover that the parents of African American boys gave their sons “the talk” (the literature is primarily about boys, though it should be about girls too). [read post]
26 Mar 2015, 11:44 am by Kevin Lapp
Louis Post-Dispatch to force the disclosure of Michael Brown's juvenile records (if there were any) in the wake of his shooting by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson demonstrated that, even in a world where criminal records are increasingly available to anyone, we still strive to... [read post]
20 Feb 2016, 5:05 am by SHG
  And to this end, the students at Brown have shown their mettle. [read post]