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28 Jun 2019, 6:14 am by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
Thomas Munsterman Award for Jury Innovation, which recognizes states, local courts, or individuals that have made significant improvements or innovations in jury procedures, operations, or practices. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 3:55 am by Edith Roberts
” At Jost on Justice, Kenneth Jost looks at Thomas’ concurring opinion in Gamble, in which Thomas asserted that “the Supreme Court is constitutionally bound to give a precedent no weight whatsoever if the prior decision is, in his 20-20 hindsight, ‘demonstrably erroneous. [read post]
22 Jun 2019, 10:40 am by Howard Bashman
” Online at The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin has a post titled “Clarence Thomas’s Astonishing Opinion on a Racist Mississippi Prosecutor. [read post]
22 Jun 2019, 3:38 am by SHG
After all, one of the 42 stricken jurors who got to sit at one of Curtis Flowers’ six trials was black, and that was enough to overcome the pretextual excuses for Thomas. [read post]
21 Jun 2019, 12:46 pm by Mark Walsh
Curtis Flowers, the petitioner, is accused of murdering four people at the Tardy Furniture store in small-town Winona, Miss. [read post]
21 Jun 2019, 10:42 am by Amy Howe
In 2010, Curtis Flowers stood trial for the 1996 murders of four people in a Mississippi furniture store. [read post]
6 May 2019, 1:14 am by Steve Lubet
While we are on the subject, the first justice from west of the Appalachians was Kentucky's Thomas Todd in 1807, and the first from the former Northwest Territories was Ohio's John McLean in 1830. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
  DRE]Necessary to Form a Lawyer: Law, History, and Political Thought in Thomas Jefferson’s Legal Commonplace Book, Princeton University, May 9–10, 2019Thursday, May 9. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Curtis Flowers is an African American man who was convicted of a 1996 quadruple homicide in a small town in Mississippi. [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 4:11 am by Edith Roberts
Mississippi, which asks whether a Mississippi prosecutor’s repeated use of peremptory challenges to remove black people from the jury pool violated the Constitution, for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court; she reports that “[a]fter nearly an hour of oral argument that included the first questions by Justice Clarence Thomas since 2016, there seemed to be at least five justices who agree with [death-row inmate Curtis] Flowers. [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 3:53 am by SHG
And from the distance of never having picked jury, like Justice Clarence Thomas, who broke his latest three year silence to ask a question that demonstrated he doesn’t know how voir dire works, the problems seem obvious and the solutions simple. [read post]
21 Mar 2019, 6:54 am by Amy Howe
But then Justice Clarence Thomas, who hadn’t spoken up at oral argument since 2016, had a question. [read post]
20 Mar 2019, 6:27 pm by Howard Bashman
“Clarence Thomas Breaks a Three-Year Silence at Supreme Court”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. [read post]
18 Mar 2019, 3:52 am by Edith Roberts
” At NPR, Nina Totenberg reviews Evan Thomas’ new biography of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, calling it “an unvarnished and psychologically intuitive look at the nation’s first female Supreme Court justice, and some of her contradictory characteristics. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 6:58 am by Dan
 He noted that the Court expanded the actual malice rule to all defamed public figures in Curtis Publishing Co. v. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:07 am by Stephanie Sundier
Following this decision, the court later expanded actual malice to include “all defamed ‘public figures,'” in Curtis Publishing Co. v. [read post]