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14 Jul 2009, 6:37 am
His reasoning laid the foundation for the historic 1954 Brown v. [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 9:07 am by Marty Lederman
It's been almost a year since my last series of posts on the fallout from Hobby Lobby--in particular, on the challenges by nonprofit organizations to the government's augmented religious accommodation. [read post]
2 Aug 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Today’s justices make generous use of legal canons—those old principles of interpretation that come from Roman law and are often, perhaps surprisingly, shared with Islamic law.[15]After Karl Llewelyn excoriated the use of these legal canons to interpret statutes as incoherent over half a century ago, Justice Scalia and his textualist colleagues (and disciples) rehabilitated them.[16]They are now favored tools for Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito, Roberts, and Thomas. [read post]
8 Aug 2020, 4:23 am by Schachtman
Beshada’s refusal to consider the industrial context of asbestos claims, with the usual involvement of sophisticated employers charged with providing a complex safety program for its workers, became the judicial norm in many decisions in state and federal courts. [read post]
22 May 2012, 11:07 pm by John Steele
Waldman, for the Plaintiff/Appellant                                       Joanna Cox, for the Defendant/Respondent   DATE HEARD:   November 25, 2011 at Toronto       A M E N D E D   E N D O R S E M E N T   MATLOW, J.; This appeal [1]          This is an appeal by the plaintiff from… [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Federal Inquiry of Trump Friend Focused on Foreign Lobbying MSN – Sharon LaFraniere, Maggie Haberman, William Rashbaum, Ben Protess, and David Kirkpatrick (New York Times) | Published: 7/28/2019 Federal prosecutors are investigating the role of Thomas Barrack, a top campaign fundraiser and close friend of President Trump, and his connections to the foreign lobby. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 9:44 pm
The proposal to use electricity provoked legal wrangles between the Edison and Westinghouse companies which promoted, respectively, direct and alternating current.Following the first electrocution in 1890, Dr Alfred Southwick, the chair of the commission which recommended the electric chair, was reported as saying that "we live in a higher civilisation from this day"(5) though Thomas Edison reportedly "rebuked the doctors and said it was a mistake to have let them handle the… [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 7:45 pm by Josh Blackman
During the First Congress, Representative Thomas Tucker distinguished the Constitution's use of appoint from elect in regard to how those terms are used in the Constitution, as opposed to popular usage. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 9:15 am by Kevin O'Keefe
Law firms with blogs or lawyers blogging (Click link to go to list of blogs by that firm): Adams and Reese Akerman Senterfitt Akin Gump Allen Matkins Alston & Bird Andrews Kurth Arent Fox Armstrong Teasdale Arnold & Porter Baker & Daniels Baker Hostetler Baker & McKenzie Barnes & Thornburg Husch Blackwell Sanders Blank Rome Bracewell & Giuliani Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels… [read post]
4 Oct 2022, 3:00 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  In my Verdict column, I quote from an 1851 column that Harper's republished recently, titled simply "The Boston Tea Party,"  The author of that piece was a certain Benson J. [read post]
6 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
Five Justices showed no interest in gradually thinning out a woman’s right against forced pregnancy and birth; they appeared to have the votes and would therefore fulfill Donald J. [read post]
8 Jan 2011, 4:05 pm by INFORRM
The answer to this question, said Ward LJ (with whom Thomas and Richards LJJ agreed), was located in the underlying reason for the defence, which is “rooted in public policy”. [read post]