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14 Mar 2024, 1:00 am by Kristopher Rodriguez
If Texas were to pass a bill that would ban texting while driving, Texas would join 39 other states and the District of Columbia in banning texting and driving for all drivers, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. [read post]
12 Mar 2024, 2:25 pm by Xandra Kramer
Just last December, Google reached a settlement in a multidistrict litigation involving all 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Hasen, A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2024).Sanford Levinson              There is a deep pathos underlying Richard Hasen’s call for A Real Right to Vote:  How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy. [read post]
Through this research, we’ve identified laws in 41 states and the District of Columbia that specifically govern debt collection lawsuits. [read post]
5 Mar 2024, 12:08 pm by Jennifer González
The first public holidays were established by Congress in 1870 when New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Christmas, and Thanksgiving were declared holidays in the District of Columbia. [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Suit was filed last week in a New York federal district court by Jewish and Israeli students at Columbia University charging the University with widespread antisemitism. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 5:08 pm by Garrett West
Howard University, the panel (Wilkins, Katsas, Rogers) held that the same three-year statute of limitations that applies (at least in the District of Columbia) to civil rights claims under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act also applies to civil rights claims under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. [read post]
26 Feb 2024, 2:29 pm by Will Baude
Larry Kramer, a widely respected legal scholar and historian who was my constitutional law professor at N.Y.U. 20 years ago, called it quits in 2008, on the heels of the Supreme Court's divisive decision in District of Columbia v. [read post]
26 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Robert Post,  The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024).Robert Post             Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who devised the funds (symbolically) supporting the volume discussed in this symposium, lived most of his life in the shadow of his rock star father, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. [read post]
23 Feb 2024, 9:05 pm by Alyson Diaz
Since this decision, 38 states and the District of Columbia have legalized some form of sports gambling, including 29 states authorizing online or mobile bets. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 9:05 pm by Bryn Hines
In Davis, two Black applicants to the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia alleged that the Department’s application exam was racially discriminatory because four times as many Black applicants failed the verbal exam as did white applicants. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Robert Post,  The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024).Jill LeporeIn May 1923, weeks after the U.S. [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 4:30 am by Lawrence Solum
One impetus for Bruen was over a decade of judicial underenforcement of the Second Amendment following District of Columbia v. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Robert Post,  The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024).Stephen Breyer     Robert Post has written a magisterial account of the Supreme Court during the near decade (1921 to 1930) when former President, William Howard Taft, served as Chief Justice. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 4:30 am by Lawrence Solum
District Court for the District of Columbia includes two counts based on the statute at issue in Fischer. [read post]
11 Feb 2024, 1:49 pm by Stuart Kaplow
Last Thursday, in a case filed in 2012 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, a jury found that Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn defamed Michael Mann, awarding Mann $1 in compensatory damages from each and punitive damages of $1,000 from Simberg and $1 Million from Steyn. [read post]