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31 Aug 2015, 2:10 pm
A Ninth Circuit panel has just rejected a Freedom from Religion Foundation challenge to the Montana “Big Mountain Jesus” statue, which was apparently first placed on government land in 1954. [read post]
23 Jul 2015, 8:39 am by Karen Hoffmann
As a law student, she earned an Equal Justice Foundation fellowship for her work at the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center in New Delhi, India and assisted in the representation of HIV-positive immigrants at Whitman Walker Clinic Legal Services. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Slaves of the State presents a stunning counterhistory to this linear narrative of racial, social, and legal progress in America.Dennis Childs argues that the incarceration of black people and other historically repressed groups in chain gangs, peon camps, prison plantations, and penitentiaries represents a ghostly perpetuation of chattel slavery. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 6:03 pm by Joseph Fishkin
  In Vieth, the idea was that the practice of partisan gerrymandering threatens the democratic foundations of our constitutional order. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 10:19 am by NCC Staff
(The actual malice test goes back to the Supreme Court’s landmark New York Times v. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 5:16 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Meanwhile, Hawaii did not legalize same-sex marriage after all, as a voter referendum gave its legislature the constitutional authority to prohibit it, and the legislature enacted a prohibition immediately. [read post]
19 Jun 2015, 12:29 pm by Jim Sedor
A spokesperson said Trump, a fan of Young’s music despite their differing views, used the song legally through a licensing deal with the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
These themes include: the obscure and incremental development of seemingly foundational principles, the role of instrumentalism in property reasoning, the influence of the law of tort on the scope of property doctrines, and the impact of Roman legal reasoning on the common law of property. [read post]
1 Jun 2015, 9:52 pm
According to Liu Renwen, a legal scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, between 2007 and 2011 the annual number of executions in China fell by half. [read post]
4 May 2015, 10:26 am by Cindy Cohn
Department of Justice took over seven years to work its way through the courts, but eventually became the landmark case that first established that computer code is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment. [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 11:33 pm
The figure represented a fall of 20 per cent from 2012, the Dui Hua Foundation said, and a fraction of the 12,000 deaths in 2002. [read post]
16 Apr 2015, 11:49 am by Alison Dame-Boyle
Bernstein helped pave the way for the growing use of encryption that makes web browsing and activities like banking and shopping more secure, and its recognition of code as speech helped build the legal foundation for online rights being recognized alongside offline ones. [read post]
2 Apr 2015, 11:23 am by ALDF
As a result, the producer changes its misleading advertising and pays $44,000 split equally between the Sonoma Humane Society, Public Justice Foundation, and Consumer Action. [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
These rules were the foundation of the modern rules for tracing money in mixture. [read post]
29 Dec 2014, 5:25 pm by Chuck Cosson
  From this foundation, we can then examine the case for official legal protection of “privacy as fairness” interests, including collection and use of personal information involved in commerce, and in particular, privacy laws aimed at balancing power among economic actors, and prohibiting misuse of personal data for harmful discrimination. [read post]
27 Dec 2014, 2:19 am by Ben
Blocking orders and the legality of linking were perhaps the big news in Europe; in Australia, Canada and the UK copyright reform and revision were in the air; in the USA Sherlock Holmes, the copyright in performances, APIs, pre-1972 sound recordings and Aereo's mini antennae all stirred up the ether; Kim Dotcom's extended stay in New Zealand kept turning up great nuggets of news; the previously invincible the Pirate Bay seemingly had some serious knock backs,… [read post]