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7 Feb 2007, 12:39 am
Even Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the "Great Dissenter" at one point opined that dissents are generally "useless" and "undesirable. [read post]
3 Feb 2007, 6:50 am
Justice Chambers cited Wikipedia again on Thursday, this time to support a literary allusion: "As Sherlock Holmes might have said to Dr. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 1:32 pm
Ferguson, the pivotal dissenting and concurring opinions of Justices Holmes and Brandeis in a series of free speech decisions following World War I, and Justice Robert Jackson's landmark concurring opinion in the Steel Seizure case. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 6:52 am
An Epitome of Great Legal Classics 1 v. (1915) Hughes, William Taylor   Office of Constable: Comprising the Laws Relating to High, Petty, and Special Constables, Headboroughs, Tithingmen, Borsholders, and  Watchmen, with an Account of Their Institution and Appointment 1 v. (1840) Willcock, John William   On Conveyancers' Evidence 1 v. (1839) Coventry, Thomas   On the Admissibility of Confessions and Challenge of Jurors in… [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 12:53 pm
One of the great things about travelling without your laptop (yes, you gasp, yes) is that you are pretty much foced to things printed on actual paper. [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 6:26 am
Bring on Sherlock Holmes . . .and at least one lawyer, trained in evidence . . . pro bono publico.THE GERUM CLOAK MYSTERYThe more than 2000-year old Cloak of Gerum (photos and info below) provides us - as we will show - with the greatest "real" (non-fiction) cloak and dagger mystery of all time, unsolved up to now, but - as we allege - for the most part solved (but not entirely) in this posting.The technology that we use to solve this mystery is demonstrated in the following… [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 11:54 pm
From the Olympian:Teen is charged in death of friend - Prosecutor: Evidence doesn't back his account of shootingA Thurston County prosecutor says forensic evidence does not support a Yelm boy's story of how playmate Eric Holmes, 13, was killed by a gunshot wound to the head in May.Now the boy, also 13 at the time of Holmes' shooting, is charged with one count each of first-degree manslaughter and unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with… [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 8:03 pm
Press release, Jan. 29, 2007: Company Combines Software and Experts to Help Corporations Control the Chaos around Discovery NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–From the LegalTech New York 2007 conference, Attenex Corp., a leading e-discovery software provider, today announced the release of version 4.0 of the Attenex ® Patterns ® E-Discovery Software, an open software platform that lets corporations and their law firms establish standardized e-discovery processes, providing dramatic… [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 9:45 am
I can't help but think that this foreboding setting is what architects pictured when they designed it: fashioned after a magnificent tor in dense fog, harbouring some dastardly evil, perhaps recalling a scene from a Sherlock Holmes story. [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 7:45 am
For the record, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s opinion in Buck v. [read post]
29 Jan 2007, 8:14 am
Throughout your book, your view is that many people whose personalities were more academic or philosophical were not able to profoundly influence the direction the law - Jefferson, Holmes, Frankfurter, and Scalia come to mind - but those justices who were first politicians or practicing lawyers turn out to have had a much more lasting influence on the shape of the Court's jurisprudence. [read post]
28 Jan 2007, 7:19 pm
One possible answer to this question could begin with "marketplace of ideas" theory of free speech famously associated with Justice Holmes--a theory that emphasizes the role of freedom of speech in facilitating the emergence of truth from the unrestricted public debate and discussion. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 10:17 am
It focuses on the clashes between eight large personalities whose personal and philosophical battles continue to influence the Court today: John Marshall and Thomas Jefferson; John Marshall Harlan and Oliver Wendell Holmes; Hugo Black and William O. [read post]
25 Jan 2007, 5:15 am
" My take on it is that we lawyers learn (to paraphrase Oliver Wendell Holmes), if not by logic, by experience. [read post]
24 Jan 2007, 8:39 pm
" A problem of such Gordian knot intricacy that Sherlock Holmes would be driven to exclaim: "Damned if I know! [read post]
22 Jan 2007, 9:18 am
[As is often my practice, I showed this to Peter before posting and he helpfully replied: "My recollection (I'm in Herzliya reporting on national security and the Middle East and haven't got the opportunity at the moment to check) is that Stephen Holmes (in TNR), Don Herzog (University of Michigan Law Review(?)) [read post]
21 Jan 2007, 7:15 am
The ife of the law, Holmes once reminded, is experience. [read post]