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22 Nov 2020, 4:09 pm by INFORRM
  In September, federal court justice Jacqueline Gleeson ordered the payout to Anne Webster MP over Facebook posts in April 2020 by Australian conspiracy theorist Karen Brewer. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 4:00 am by Deanne Sowter
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a “lie” as making “an untrue statement with intent to deceive” or creating “a false or misleading impression”. [read post]
10 Oct 2020, 2:53 pm by Ilya Somin
See MERRIAM-WEBSTER ONLINE DICTIONARY (defining "necessary" as "absolutely needed: required"); OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ONLINE (defining "necessary" as "[i]ndispensable, vital, essential"). [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 7:35 am by David Post
[Merriam-Webster's Third Collegiate Dictionary] As the World's Greatest Deliberative Body—now there's a phrase you don't hear very much these days! [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 11:39 am by Eugene Volokh
In January 2013, in the wake of mass shootings including at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 12, 2012, and at the West Webster Fire Department on December 24, 2012, the New York State legislature enacted sweeping gun-safety reform legislation known as the NY SAFE Act. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 9:23 am by Kristian Soltes
According to the complaint, the two plaintiffs — James Cottle in 2019 and Frederick Schoeneman in 2016 — separately signed up for Venmo to send and receive payments. [read post]
6 Jul 2020, 5:54 am by Jed Handelsman Shugerman
One of the few original sources Roberts cited is a letter from James Madison, who orchestrated a sequence of votes that became known as the Decision of 1789. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 8:56 am by davidferriero
Merriam Webster turns to Benjamin Franklin, no less,  in its word history of a firebrand “https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-is-a-firebrand-word-history. [read post]
15 Jun 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The Oregon Treaty, between the United Kingdom and the United States, was signed on this day in history during the presidency of James K. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
(See, e.g, James Darsey, The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America, 1999).I’m Not a Bigot, By God! [read post]
26 May 2020, 10:29 am by Eugene Volokh
Even as late as 1828, when Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language, he gave as one of the meanings of "peace": "8. [read post]
2 May 2020, 1:07 pm by Josh Blackman
[Further thoughts on the Tucker Act and Federal Question Jurisdiction] Last week I posed a question: "can a plaintiff seek compensation for an unconstitutional taking, without relying on the Tucker Act's jurisdiction–if not under the Takings Clause, perhaps under some theory of tort. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 8:23 pm
Prior to the constitution, Noah Webster urged the states to pass copyright laws, inspired by the model of the Statute of Anne (1710). [read post]
4 Feb 2020, 10:58 am by Christine Corcos
In The Federalist #43, James Madison observed, regarding the patent and copyright clause in the U.S. [read post]
4 Feb 2020, 10:58 am
In The Federalist #43, James Madison observed, regarding the patent and copyright clause in the U.S. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 8:00 am by Matthew Waxman
” In the end, Polk’s military success in occupying Mexico’s northern provinces and taking Mexico’s capital helped beat back efforts by Daniel Webster and others to forego major territorial acquisition, but congressional pressure to bring an end to the war compelled Polk to hastily accept treaty terms that he considered imperfect. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 4:41 am by NCC Staff
On February 2, 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in Mexico without President James K. [read post]