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Thomas Wells Jr., president of the American Bar Association, spoke today at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco about preserving the integrity of the American legal system after Guantanamo Bay. [read post]

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Where Things Might Go in the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s Seventeenth Amendment Case Involving Senator Jim Inhofe’s “Irrevocable” Promise to Retire in January: Part Two in a Series

20 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone

In Part One of this series, we began discussing a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma attorney Stephen Jones in the Oklahoma Supreme Court seeking to prevent the state from holding a special election this year to replace U.S. [read post]

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Vacancy-Filling Wrinkles Created by Ben Sasse’s Expected Departure from the U.S. Senate

30 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar, Jason Mazzone and Ethan Yan

Earlier this month the University of Florida (UF) announced that U.S. [read post]

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The Not-So-Good News About Carbon Offsets

5 Oct 2023, 8:55 am by Evan George

Jason Gray and I spoke recently about why tropical deforestation is down in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia. [read post]

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H.R. 2168: Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act

20 Jun 2011, 9:31 am by PJ Blount

Jason Chaffetz (R-UT3): HR 2168 IH 112th CONGRESS 1st Session H. [read post]

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Another Free-Speech Dustup Arising from A Student-Invited-Speaker Event, This One at Pitt, Highlights Recurring Problems at Universities, and in Free Speech Doctrine

26 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone

A recent controversy over an invited-speaker event at the University of Pittsburgh (a public university in Pennsylvania known as “Pitt”) illustrates how both sides in free speech controversies at public universities seem to do and say untenable things, and also how the Supreme Court could improve matters by providing more clarity on key doctrinal and practical questions.The following factual contentions are drawn (and quote) from a demand letter sent to Pitt officials by the Alliance… [read post]

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Promega v. Life Tech, pt. 2: Inducing Oneself

8 Jan 2015, 9:18 pm by Jason Rantanen

By Jason Rantanen Promega Corp. v. [read post]

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Is California’s Mandate That Public Companies Include Women on Their Boards Of Directors Constitutional?

4 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone

Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 826, a landmark measure that requires each publicly held corporation whose principal executive offices are located in California to have, by the end of 2019, at least one woman on its board of directors. [read post]

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Who May/Should Preside Over Former President Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial?

3 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone

The Senate has announced that when it convenes later this month for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald J. [read post]

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Why the Supreme Court was Right Last Week to Deny Review of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decisions Handed Down Prior to the 2020 Election

4 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone

In the past few weeks, the Supreme Court has been cleaning up some of the untidiness left after the November 2020 presidential election. [read post]

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