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27 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
An interesting and potentially important lawsuit in federal court in Arizona is challenging the way state officials have sought to deal with the vacancy in the US Senate created by Senator McCain’s death four months ago (on August 25, 2018). [read post]
19 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
There have been countless lawsuits filed over the last nine months—by states, cities, individuals, public interest groups, and others—challenging Trump administration actions and policies. [read post]
Today we analyze a very intriguing issue raised by a case that will be heard by the U.S. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 4:56 am by Rob Robinson
bit.ly/HYAbpE (Stacey Higginbotham) Businesses Unlikely To Comply With 24-Hour Breach Notification – bit.ly/HRWhho (SC Magazine) California Provides SocialMedia Guidance for Financial Institutions bit.ly/IaudVo (Heida Johanns, Julie O’Neill) Compliance Focus, Employee Error Lead to Health Care Data Breaches – bit.ly/JdQz5H (Catherine Dunn) Compliance Is A Gold Mine – bit.ly/I35B1C (Kelly Damore) FBI: Disinfect Your Computer Or Risk Losing Internet Access Come July –… [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Yesterday the Federalism Working Group of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)—an influential and generally conservative policy-oriented institution that offers template legislation for state governments to consider adopting—was scheduled to meet to consider, among other things, a proposal that would empower state legislatures to add candidates to general election ballots for the office of United States Senator. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In what some commentators believe is one of the most important cases of the Supreme Court’s recently concluded term, Matal v. [read post]
16 Oct 2015, 6:19 am by Jim Sedor
Nonprofit Masks Source of Ads Backing RubioNew York Times – Jonathan Martin and Nicholas Confessore | Published: 10/11/2015 Voters in states like New Hampshire and Iowa have been left largely in the dark about who is putting the most money behind U.S. [read post]
19 May 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Here they (or we, depending on point of view) go again—yet another complicated lawsuit seeking to mortally wound the Affordable Care Act (popularly known as Obamacare) is wending its way through the federal courts. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In my last column, 2020 Election Legal Maneuvering, I described a recent lawsuit filed by some prominent lawyers and law professors challenging Texas’s use of the so-called Winner-Take-All (WTA) approach to selecting the state’s representatives to the so-called Electoral College. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Michael Schaps
When doctors consider whether to administer a particular medical treatment, they have to balance the treatment’s efficacy (that is, how likely the treatment is to help the patient, and by how much) against negative side effects (that is, how likely the treatment is to harm the patient, and how badly). [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
My biweekly column slot this week roughly coincides with the beginning of the new academic year at most law schools across the country. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Last week an Alabama trial court judge (Michael Graffeo) made national news when (literally just minutes before his judicial term expired and he began retirement) he held that the Alabama Memorial Protection Act (AMPA)—which prohibits public jurisdictions within the state from altering or otherwise disturbing public monuments that have been in existence for at least forty years—violated the Fourteenth Amendment free speech and due process rights of the City of Birmingham, which sought to… [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Many of the essays posted on Verdict deal with Supreme Court cases; in today’s column I focus on an opinion issued by a court at the base, rather than the pinnacle, of the federal judicial system—this month’s ruling by a federal district court in Arizona disposing of residual challenges brought against Arizona’s SB 1070 statute, the statute passed in 2010 attempting to deal with immigration stresses in the state, parts of which were struck down two years later by the Supreme… [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 1:05 pm by Steven Taber
. --- Science Daily via Jonathan Guillou, November 28, 2009 A study conducted during the three days after September 11, 20001, when the Federal Aviation Administration grounded commercial aircraft in the U.S., found that jet exhaust contrails affected average daily temperature ranges. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
For many folks, next week’s Republican presidential debate in Cleveland—sponsored by Fox News and Facebook and scheduled to air on the Fox News Channel—fully kicks off the 2016 presidential election season. [read post]