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24 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Unlimited is limited to the context.Similarly, if a statute were to grant to judges complete latitude in terms of the number of months or years that a convicted defendant can be sentenced to spend in jail, and a defendant appealed a 99-year sentence as being too long, a court could say: “The judge’s sentencing power is unlimited. [read post]
27 Nov 2020, 5:11 pm by David Friedman
And England in the 18th century still had in law, although not in practice, a legal action, the Appeal of Felony, which was an entirely private suit for a criminal penalty. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Biden Aides Headline DNC Fundraisers with Lobbyists Politico – Theodoric Meyer | Published: 8/13/2020 When Barack Obama won the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, he barred the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from accepting contributions from lobbyists in an attempt to purge their influence from his future administration. [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 7:28 am by Andrew Delaney
He appeals on four separate issues, and SCOV affirms. [read post]
11 May 2020, 8:07 am by Dan Maurer
In Section 540F of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2020, Congress directed the Department of Defense to conduct a feasibility study, and to report the findings of that study, on a potential new “alternative military justice system. [read post]
12 Mar 2020, 6:30 am by ernst
It thus allows for what James Wilson celebrated—and what Sir William Blackstone could not conceive—the possibility of legalized revolution. [read post]
28 Feb 2020, 8:00 am by ernst
The English path ends with Blackstone declaring that courts have no power to declare laws unconstitutional. [read post]
20 Jan 2020, 9:54 am
 New IP SilksThe IPKat sent its congratulations to the two newly-minted QCs with appropriately silky IP skills: Andrew Norris (Hogarth Chambers) and James Segan (Blackstone Chambers)! [read post]
16 Jan 2020, 4:38 am
The IPKat team [including Merpel, of course] send their hearty congratulations to two newly-minted QCs with appropriately silky IP skills:Andrew Norris (Hogarth Chambers), a trade marks specialist who was involved in (among others) the Jack Wills v House of Fraser and Fenty v Topshop cases; andJames Segan (Blackstone Chambers), whose admirably broad practice takes in (among other things) IP and media matters, including the recent Conversant v Huawei and ZTE Supreme Court… [read post]
13 Dec 2019, 6:30 am by ernst
This learned and witty book is a must-read for anyone interested in the popular appeal of justice in all its complexity. [read post]
18 Nov 2019, 12:12 pm by Ben Berwick, Justin Florence
In other words, merely attempting a bribe, though not consummated, was punished as bribery at the time of the Founding according to Blackstone. [read post]
10 Nov 2019, 4:38 pm by INFORRM
Media Law in Other Jurisdictions  Australia The Guardian had a piece “Geoffrey Rush defamation appeal: $2.9m ‘manifestly excessive’, newspaper say”. [read post]
5 Nov 2019, 3:13 am by SHG
Blackstone was wrong. [read post]
28 Sep 2019, 8:28 am by John Mikhail
A second federal judge recently denied the president’s motion to dismiss on similar grounds, setting the stage for what seems likely to be a pivotal issue on appeal or in any impeachment proceedings against the president. [read post]
14 Sep 2019, 2:10 pm by Eugene Volokh
[New Mexico will apparently now be the only statute in which spouses may generally testify about confidential statements made during the marriage.] [read post]
14 Sep 2019, 12:20 pm by John Mikhail
  As Jonathan Gienapp, Richard Primus, and David Schwartz have recently shown, similar appeals to implied powers, grounded in the Preamble and Necessary and Proper Clause, were used throughout the founding era, particularly in connection with the Bank of the United States. [read post]