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16 Jul 2018, 5:30 am by Kenneth J. Vanko
Godlevsky, a federal district court awarded the plaintiff its attorneys' fees in a trade secrets suit for what the court called defense behavior that was "so acrimonious, vexatious, and indefensible that... [read post]
8 Jul 2018, 9:30 pm by Leah Litman
On the second-to-last day of the term, the U.S. [read post]
6 Jul 2018, 10:00 am
” Jeff Sessions is simply the most recent person to try to justify an indefensible policy by referring to the Bible. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 4:07 am by Marty Lederman
  That disposition, as I’ll explain, is indefensible on a couple of grounds—(i) that the Court does not adequately defend its deferential posture and, more importantly, (ii) that the Travel Ban fails even the “rational basis review” the Court applied, because its only effect is to exclude entry into the U.S. of individuals who can demonstrate that they are not dangerous (or otherwise inadmissible). [read post]
1 Jul 2018, 1:40 pm by Mark Graber
  The same tactics you thought necessary to prevent the other party from gaining office now seem to you democratically and constitutionally indefensible. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 5:19 am by Quinta Jurecic
To be clear, this is not an endorsement on the merits of either Roberts’s or Kennedy’s approaches, or even of Jackson’s dissent, which a wise lawyer once described to me as “somewhere between incomprehensible and indefensible. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 6:58 pm by Alice O'Brien
The court’s ruling will harm working people and is doctrinally indefensible. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 8:31 am by Kevin Schmidt
 “Excessive and reflexive secrecy, that serves no legitimate purpose, is a costly habit that our intelligence community needs to kick before they waste more taxpayer’s money defending the indefensible in costly FOIA lawsuits,” said Open the Government Executive Director Lisa Rosenberg. [read post]
20 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
When Jeff Sessions justified the inhumane treatment of children at the border on the basis of Bible verses, he was making a vain attempt to enrobe an indefensible practice in God’s approval. [read post]
20 Jun 2018, 8:49 am by Shane McCall
For the protester to recover costs, the agency’s position must be legally indefensible, that is, blatantly wrong. [read post]
20 Jun 2018, 8:32 am by Brian Leiter
It's a big internet, and there was bound to be someone in "theory"-land who would actually try to defend the indefensible: enter Jennifer Doyle, English professor at UC Riverside, whose blog is aptly titled "trouble thinking. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 7:06 am by Joanna Schwartz
The failure of qualified immunity to achieve its intended policy goals makes its negative impact on government accountability indefensible. [read post]
12 Jun 2018, 12:23 pm by Sandy Levinson
Although some (especially presidents themselves) claim that the President is the "tribune of the national people," the even more egregious and indefensible electoral college assures that most often the President is the faithful servant of the particular coalition that put him (so far) into power. [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 3:53 pm by Sandy Levinson
Remaining at home recovering from a (successful) hip replacement—though I’m eagerly awaiting a second replacement later this year—offers opportunity for reading. [read post]
8 Jun 2018, 8:00 am by Howard Bashman
“Just How Indefensible Does an Argument in a Government Brief Have to Be to Cause All the Career Litigators in Federal Programs to Withdraw from the Case? [read post]
8 Jun 2018, 7:20 am by Marty Lederman
  But such recusal is not common and, more to the point, once those lawyers do represent the government in a case they rarely seek the court’s permission to withdraw representation because they’ve concluded that an argument their supervisors choose to include in a brief is too embarrassing or indefensible to defend. [read post]
6 Jun 2018, 7:35 pm
Countless philosophers have shown that this so-called equal application doctrine is morally indefensible and that defenders should have more rights and fewer responsibilities than aggressors. [read post]
6 Jun 2018, 9:29 am by Erik Slobe
HRW has identified three shortcomings in the bill, which include: an indefensibly rigid definition of "command responsibility" for FARC commanders that could impede... [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
About ten years ago, I received an email asking what I thought about abortion in animals. [read post]