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4 Nov 2024, 9:05 pm by Mikaela Wells
In this decision, Justice Oliver Holmes infamously declared that “three generations of imbeciles are enough. [read post]
6 Aug 2017, 2:24 pm by John Floyd
”   Let us educate DA Marquis: criminal defense attorneys know, beyond any measure of doubt, that many career “tough on crime” prosecutors, like former Harris County DAs Johnny Holmes, Charles Rosenthal, and Kelly Siegler, have waged, and continue to wage, a war on justice and fairness. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 2:49 pm
  Thanks to everyone who worked with us: Margie Rowe, David Catanzariti, Tony Cibiras, Roberta McRae, Lynn Du Moulin, Vivien Holmes (for the caravan tea), her husband Gregg (great food); among the Flexible Learning Unit, Aliyah Steed and Alex Knight; Jonathan Powles for the conversations about sims (and of course the music…); among the CEDAM educationalists, Gerlese Akerlind (for phenomenographic conversations); in IT, Andrew Vella… [read post]
27 Jun 2010, 9:54 am by William S. Dodge
In an article published more than a decade ago, I noted that there are at least three ways to understand the presumption against extraterritoriality: (1) that acts of Congress should presumptively apply only to conduct in the United States regardless of whether the conduct causes effects in the United States (Justice Holmes’s view in American Banana); (2) that acts of Congress should presumptively apply only to conduct that causes effects in the United States regardless of where the… [read post]
22 Aug 2008, 8:55 pm
This kind of question in the law surely predates computers: It was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. who first created the reasonable man, a personage Louis Menand has memorably termed “the fictional protagonist of modern liability theory. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 12:31 pm
Youthful offenders who are charged with a felony who are age 17 but under age 21, may be eligible to have a felony dismissed pursuant to the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act (HYTA). [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 12:49 pm by Laurie Lin
(Emory) Jessica Reimelt and David Greengrass (2, American) Jacqueline Harrington and Andrew Holm (Michigan) Meghan Formwalt and Taylor Shann (Cardozo) Geri Armine-Klein and Cynthia Armine-Klein (Brooklyn) Anika Leerssen and Chad Marriott (2, Oregon) Richard Martin Jr. and Michael Dym (NYLS) Patricia Barr and Pelham Straughn (GW) [read post]
29 May 2009, 2:06 pm
  At the risk of reproducing here what has rapidly devolved into a tedious cliché through constant repetition, I offer you what jurist and legal scholar Oliver Wendell Holmes said about the law in his best known work, The Common Law: The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 7:40 am by lawmrh
Oliver Wendell Holmes is supposed to have said, “Nothing is so rewarding as a stubborn examination of the obvious. [read post]
9 Dec 2019, 11:13 am by Austin T. Hamilton, Esq.
Holmes, 307 So. 2d 470, 472 (Fla. 2d DCA 1975) (holding that a TOE clause concerning the closing date did not apply to an alleged delay in furnishing bank loan certificates). [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 3:51 am by SHG
In Aurora, Colorado, there was a killer before James Holmes in 2012. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 5:11 pm by lawmrh
United States, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. [read post]
30 Aug 2019, 10:23 am by Patricia Salkin
Mahon, 260 U.S. 393 (1922), Justice Holmes offered the rule that launched an untold number of lawsuits and thousands of articles by tenure-seeking academics: “the general rule at least is that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking. [read post]
14 Jan 2023, 2:14 am
DeBakey VA Medical Center Utah Salt Lake City: VA Salt Lake City Health Care System Virginia Richmond: Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center Washington Seattle: VA Puget Sound Health Care System West Virginia Clarksburg: Clarksburg - Louis A. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 11:24 pm by charonqc
Important changes to the criminal law also need to be made to enable our criminal justice system to cope with complex fraud trials and to bring the perpetrators of such crimes to account……” And, an even more depressing case… Litany of failures that let father rape his daughters for years The Guardian: Authorities apologise over missed warnings of incest as report reveals culture of ‘quiet word’ rather than action Nick Holmes of Binary Law… [read post]
25 Jun 2007, 9:14 am
The final phrase there is obviously a deliberate comment on, and contrast with, Justice Holmes's famous epigram (which Scalia quotes later in his opinion) that the life of the law "has not been logic: it has been experience. [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 8:29 pm
Justice Holmes accepted the following evidence: [48] I accept Dr. [read post]