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10 Jul 2015, 12:49 pm
Afghan officials have stated that over twenty ISIS fighters, along with Shahid and one other ISIS leader, were killed in American drone strikes on Tuesday. [read post]
10 Jul 2015, 7:39 am
Washington Post – Niraj Chokshi | Published: 7/7/2015 After taking 22 factors into account – including broad access to voting, equal representation in state government, and a limited concentration of influence over the political system – Maine’s democracy ranks healthiest in the nation, according to the Center for American Progress Action Fund. [read post]
9 Jul 2015, 7:39 am
The general trend is away from harsh and exclusionary policies in both criminal justice and immigration.Sadly, the punitive storm that has arisen around Francisco Sanchez and the killing of Kathryn Steinle is a reminder of how powerful the hold of crime-panic journalism, and hyperventilating crime-warrior politicians like Feinstein, remains on our public policy and how slow reform will probably be.Jonathan Simon is a professor of law at UC Berkeley and Faculty Director of the… [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm
Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, and the author of God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty and Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 11:17 am
Even though marriages were considered voluntary contracts, women in those marriages lost their individual rights because of the law of coverture. [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 4:52 pm
Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, a program fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an Advisory Board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 11:38 am
According to The National Center on Elder Abuse it is estimated that between two to five million elderly Americans suffer from some form of elder abuse each year. [read post]
6 Jul 2015, 7:52 am
In The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Marcia Coyle and Tony Mauro observe that several of the Court’s high-profile decisions “revealed deep divisions among the justices – not just between the left and right sides of the bench, but often within the Court’s conservative wing. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 1:55 pm
In 2010, the Poison Control Centers received only 304 calls about bath salts. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 7:00 am
This has produced the world's largest prison population: every day more than 2 million people--mostly black, brown, or poor--are barred somewhere within the nation's vast archipelago of prisons, jails, and immigrant detention centers. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 5:54 am
Reity O’Brien of the Center for Public Integrity discusses the Justices’ financial disclosures, which were released on Thursday, while at MarketWatch Francine McKenna reports on possible conflicts of interest revealed by the disclosures. [read post]
2 Jul 2015, 7:47 am
In January, 10 teachers and the Christian Educators Association International (CEAI), represented by the Center for Individual Rights, filed a petition for cert in Friedrichs. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 12:23 pm
Quinn, Justice Alito wrote a majority opinion that blasted Abood v. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 9:30 am
" Over at Balkinization, Jack Balkin (Yale Law School) has posted on the Justices' competing uses of the concept of tradition. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 6:06 am
Coverage comes from Jeremy Jacobs of Greenwire and Chantal Valery of Agence France-Press (via Business Insider); commentary comes from Michael Wara in the Stanford Lawyer, Lisa Soronen at the Knowledge Center, Seth Jaffe at Law and the Environment, John Burton at the World Socialist Web Site, and Richard Revesz at The Hill. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 1:30 am
As this more political bench emerged, O’Connor placed herself at the center, and thus became one of the most powerful justices at the time. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 8:04 am
A final ruling may emerge next year in the midst of a presidential election campaign in which the role of labor unions in American life could be a visible issue. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 7:28 am
Americans considered the arguments and put the question to a vote. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 7:13 am
” From the news release of the American Association for Justice. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 6:02 am
While the legal logic behind the suit is obtuse (much of it hinges on what one appeals judge called “a tortured, nonsensical” interpretation of two sentences in the law), its goal is simple: As the center’s then-chairman declared in 2010, Obamacare “has to be killed as a matter of political hygiene. [read post]
