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13 Oct 2011, 12:55 pm by David Ingram
Senators also confirmed a third judicial nominee today: Susan Hickey, a former career federal law clerk who is now a state judge, for U.S. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 5:55 am by Andrew Weber
The Plain Writing Act requires U.S. government materials written for the public to be in plain language. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 2:47 pm by nflatow
by Nicole Flatow Thirty years after the appointment of Sandra Day O’Connor to the U.S. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 12:04 pm by David Oscar Markus
But he does believe that passing federal laws against them has done harm to the U.S. government. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 4:25 am by Walter Olson
“The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) — even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they’re carried out. [read post]
9 Oct 2011, 7:30 am by Ilya Somin
Radley Balko has the disturbing details:The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) — even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they’re carried out. [read post]
8 Oct 2011, 10:54 am by John Steele
From Huffington Post: "The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) -- even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they're carried out. [read post]
8 Oct 2011, 6:48 am by Jon
They saw themselves as merely declaring the law which had always theoretically existed, not making it. [38] Therefore, a judge could reject another judge's opinion as simply an incorrect statement of the law, like how scientists regularly reject each other's conclusions as incorrect statements of the laws of science. [38]The contemporary rule of binding precedent became possible in the U.S. in the nineteenth century only after the creation of a clear court hierarchy (under the… [read post]
8 Oct 2011, 6:44 am by Jon
They saw themselves as merely declaring the law which had alwaystheoretically existed, not making it. [38] Therefore, a judge couldreject another judge's opinion as simply an incorrect statement of thelaw, like how scientists regularly reject each other's conclusions asincorrect statements of the laws of science. [38] The contemporary rule of binding precedent became possible in the U.S.in the nineteenth century only after the creation of a clear courthierarchy (under the… [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 3:30 am by Chip Merlin
As the case approached the Illinois Supreme Court, Karmeier threw his hat into what was one of the most expensive judicial elections in U.S. history. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 6:02 pm by Contributor
October 28th of this month will mark the one year anniversary of the publication of the Anti-SLAPP Panel’s Report to the Attorney General on anti-SLAPP legislation. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 10:00 am by Sam Skolnik
Though four of the six federal judges confirmed this week by the U.S. [read post]