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10 May 2015, 5:48 pm by WOLFGANG DEMINO
NEWEST ADDITION TO HECHT COURT'S IMMUNITY JURIS(MAL)PRUDENCE:    DRUNK DRIVER IMMUNITY    Here is yet another example of the Texas Supreme Court's penchant for creating and invoking immunity theories to deny plaintiffs their day in court against a party that caused injury, and thereby preventing a trial on the merits and recovery of damages from the tortfeasor proven to have committed the tort. [read post]
10 May 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
The Washington Post has a review of Cokie Roberts's Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 (Harper).Charles Murray has a new book out, By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission (Crown Forum), and it is reviewed in The Washington Post.The New York Review of Books has a piece by Jed Rakoff reviewing a report by Oliver Roeder, Lauren-Brooke Eisen, and Julia Bowling, with a foreword by Joseph E. [read post]
7 May 2015, 11:31 am by Schachtman
Climate scientists, at least those scientists who believe that climate change is both real and an existential threat to human civilization, have invoked their consensus as an evidentiary ground for political action. [read post]
5 May 2015, 6:00 pm by Colin O'Keefe
ERISA and Mom  – Indiana attorney Robert Toth on his blog, Business of Benefits Privacy, Product and Business Model Implications from Facebook’s API Changes – Boston lawyer Peter McLaughlin of DLA Piper on the firm’s blog, Technology’s Legal Edge April Brings a Fresh Start: Expungement of Criminal Records on the Clearinghouse Community – Amanda Moore of the Shriver Center on their blog, The Shriver Brief Take Care in Using Consumer Data to Drive Dynamic… [read post]
19 Apr 2015, 9:00 pm by Cody Poplin
Register to attend with Brookings. [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 8:58 am by WIMS
<> Projected Warming of Wisconsin Streams Could Negatively Affect Trout – USGS: Annual average stream temperatures in the Trout Lake watershed, Wisconsin, could increase from one to three degrees Celsius by the year 2100, which might negatively affect cold water fish like brook trout <> ''Fast Track'' Trade Bill Would Undercut Health, Environmental Safeguards - (April … [read post]
16 Apr 2015, 3:31 pm by Stephen Bilkis
Penal Law § 260.10 (1) provides that a person endangers the welfare of a child when "[h]e knowingly acts in a manner likely to be injurious to the physical, mental or moral welfare of a child less than seventeen years old. [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 2:19 pm by Stephen Bilkis
When faced with contradictory testimony in matrimonial actions, as here, "[e]valuating the credibility of the respective witnesses is primarily a matter committed to the sound discretion of the Supreme Court" (Varga v. [read post]
7 Apr 2015, 9:53 am by Tara Hofbauer
” However, in the Washington Post, Brookings’ Daniel Drezner explains why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not really an important player with regard to the Iran deal. [read post]
2 Apr 2015, 1:30 pm by Carrie Cordero
The Brennan Center appears to miss this point, as the report states: With the exception of e-mails stored in the United States, the new law [the FISA Amendments Act] had no impact on the government’s ability to collect the communications of foreigners with other foreigners. [read post]
31 Mar 2015, 5:32 am by Charles Sartain
 The answers are, more than the lessee did in Samson Contour Energy E&P, LLC v. [read post]
29 Mar 2015, 9:00 pm by Cody Poplin
Successful completion of a background investigation is required for employment at Brookings. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 10:29 am by Sebastian Brady
The fight also continues across the Durand Line: a day after a U.S. drone strike killed 13 militants affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban, a Pakistani missile strike killed 30 militants from Lashkar-e-Islam, a group that recently aligned itself with the Pakistani Taliban. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 8:47 am by Jack Goldsmith
Sections 135(e)-(i) facilitate expedited consideration of legislation for new sanctions in the event of an Iran breach or of the failure of the President to certify Iran’s good behavior, provide definitions and rules of construction, and state the sense of Congress about the importance of Congress’s role in the Iran negotiations. [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 9:00 pm by Cody Poplin
Brookings has more information. [read post]