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See, e.g., People v Anderson (Cal. 2002) ("duress is not a defense to any form of murder"); Am Jur 2d, Homicide (it is "generally held" that duress is not a defense to murder and that "duress [does not] mitigate murder to manslaughter"). [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Managing Federation: Prenups and Marriage Counseling

2 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger

See also Elizabeth S. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

Vineyard Smoke Claims—Does Your Wine Have a Smoky Flavor?

2 Jan 2023, 5:52 am by Chip Merlin

Thought For The Day Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. [read post]

Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog - http://www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com/

LexFusion’s Second Annual Legal Market Year in Review (348)

2 Jan 2023, 3:30 am by D. Casey Flaherty, Joe Borstein and Paul Stroka

See Post 347. [read post]

Legal Evolution - https://www.legalevolution.org/

When the Time Comes, I’d Like to Die on My Own Terms—But the Massachusetts Supreme Court Won’t Let Me

1 Jan 2023, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat

The low point came in Dobbs v. [read post]

Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/

The Orishas Speak: The 2023 Letter of the Yoruba Association of Cuba (Letra del Año para el 2023 de la Asociación Yoruba de Cuba) and My Preliminary Interpretation

1 Jan 2023, 6:38 pm

Desde La Habana, el sacerdote de Ifá, Víctor Betancourt, dijo que la oficialista Asociación Cultural Yoruba rompió con los acuerdos establecidos desde 2016 y este año hicieron la ceremonia "a puerta cerrada, sin convocar a nadie de la comisión". [read post]

Law at the End of the Day - https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/

The whirligig of time

1 Jan 2023, 10:16 am by Giles Peaker

We shall see. [read post]

nearlylegal - http://nearlylegal.co.uk/blog

Seeing Patent Trolls Clearly: 2022 in Review

1 Jan 2023, 9:16 am by Joe Mullin

Defending Our Progress Since EFF has started working to improve the patent system, we’ve seen a few big steps forward, like the introduction of inter partes review (IPR), and the 2014 Alice v. [read post]

Deeplinks Blog - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks

Summaries Sunday: Supreme Advocacy

1 Jan 2023, 4:00 am by Administrator

Nothing in the record on appeal permits this Court to depart from the assumption that juries generally follow explicit instructions: see R. v. [read post]

Slaw - http://www.slaw.ca/

Top 10 Privacy and Data Protection Cases 2022, a selection – Suneet Sharma

31 Dec 2022, 4:51 pm by INFORRM

There was an Inforrm case comment on the case, See also Panopticon Blog and 5RB case comment. [read post]

Inforrm's Blog - https://inforrm.wordpress.com/

Differences Between Virginia and D.C. Defamation Law

31 Dec 2022, 2:51 pm by Lee E. Berlik

(See Kitt v. [read post]

Virginia Defamation Law Blog - http://www.virginiadefamationlawyer.com/

Administrative Law Programming at the AALS Annual Meeting in January 2023

31 Dec 2022, 10:34 am by Christopher J. Walker

And we have now seen that text or lack of text can determine constitutional outcomes (see, e.g. [read post]