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14 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
As the fall semester approaches and college freshmen prepare to start school, there is renewed criticism of the University of California’s decision, implemented over the last few years at all or nearly all of the system’s campuses, to increase the number and percentage of out-of-state and international college students. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In my last column, Part I of this Two-Part series, I argued that lower courts are justified in paying (indeed perhaps required to pay) close attention to Justice Kennedy’s concurring opinion in this summer’s blockbuster Burwell v. [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 9:03 am by Schachtman
“For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics. [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Legal and political commentators have already spent thousands of hours on how best to understand Justice Alito’s majority opinion in Burwell v. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 6:44 pm by Thomas Hopson
 Other early coverage comes from Jess Bravin and Louise Radnofsky of The Wall Street Journal (subscription required); Adam Liptak of The New York Times; Robert Barnes at The Washington Post; David Nather and Jennifer Haberkorn of Politico; Bill Mears and Tom Cohen of CNN; Mary Agnes Carey at NPR; Richard Wolf at USA Today; Sandhya Somashekhar at The Washington Post; Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspiracy; William Hibbitts at Jurist; and Mark Sherman of the Associated Press… [read post]
29 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In my last column, I began analyzing SB 396, a laudable but legally questionable effort by the California legislature to repeal, by ordinary legislation, provisions of Proposition 187, a 1994 voter-enacted measure that imposed harsh restrictions on unlawful immigrants in the State, restrictions that have since been blocked indefinitely by a federal district court judge. [read post]
23 Jun 2014, 12:57 pm by Schachtman
ITERATIVE DISJUNCTIVE SYLLOGISM Basic propositional logic teaches that the disjunctive syllogism (modus tollendo ponens) is a valid argument, in which one of its premises is a disjunction (P v Q), and the other premise is the negation of one of the disjuncts: P v Q ~P­­­_____ ∴ Q See Irving Copi & Carl Cohen Introduction to Logic at 362 (2005). [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In the space below, I analyze a pending effort by California lawmakers to cleanse the California statute books of (what are to my mind) some mean-spirited provisions concerning the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the State. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 10:47 am
The Williams Island association and the Island Estates Homeowners Association separately filed lawsuits in 2013 challenging the development rights for Privé, which is planned as a pair of 16-story condominium towers with 160 units by developer BH3 and Gary Cohen, the developer of the Island Estates enclave in the south island of the two-island property. [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 11:19 pm by Nietzer
Cohen wrote about three such persons. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
While many analysts this month are understandably focused on the blockbuster rulings that are due from the Supreme Court in June—the back end of the Supreme Court litigation process, if you will—in my column today I introduce and briefly analyze the front end of three cases on which the Court has granted review for the next Term, which begins this fall. [read post]
21 May 2014, 5:31 pm by Colin O'Keefe
– Tampa lawyer Nicholas Williams of Foley & Lardner on the firm’s Manufacturing Industry Advisor For more of the best, check out LXBN, a complete review of the top insight and commentary across the LexBlog Network. [read post]