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16 Apr 2013, 10:15 am
The Constitution Project has released the results of its Task Force on Detainee Treatment in the form of this 577-page report—which concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” and that “the nation’s highest officials bear some responsibility for allowing and contributing to the spread of torture. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 10:02 am
O'Connor is withering, and I think you can hear Dellinger — arguing that civil suits against the President must be delayed until after he's out of office — losing in 3 minutes of real time. [read post]
9 Apr 2013, 12:54 pm
Withers and David Hosking, Wildlife of Southern Africa (Princeton University Press, 2011) Duncan Butchart, Wildlife of South Africa: A Photographic Guide ( Struik Nature, 2009) Preservation of Land, Culture, and Wildlife for the Development of Ecotourism in Africa (David A. [read post]
1 Apr 2013, 7:34 am
Putting aside some procedural difficulties, the real issue was whether the speedy trial clause wither of Art. 11 or the 6th Amendment - or both - was violated when more than 10 years of time, all attributable to the government passed before trial.In a bright note, the SJC affirmed that the speedy trial right clock begins tick [read post]
28 Mar 2013, 4:54 pm
This vivid meta-imagery was coined by Jeremy Bentham and, while the objects of his withering scorn were the concepts of natural law and natural rights, the term might better be deployed today for many an attempted interpretation of non-natural law such as statutes, Regulations and Directives, of which the vast and sprouting corpus of European trade mark law can furnish many a fine example. [read post]
28 Mar 2013, 9:33 am
It were better to rend our robes with a great cry against blasphemy, like Caiaphas in the judgment, or to lay hold of the man as a maniac possessed of devils like the kinsmen and the crowd, than to stand stupidly debating fine shades of pantheism in the presence of so catastrophic a claim.There is more of the wisdom that is one with surprise in any simple person full of the sensitiveness of simplicity, who should expect the grass to wither and the birds to drop dead out of the air when a… [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 8:05 am
They’re “going to wither up and die. [read post]
24 Mar 2013, 11:41 am
However, having done so the appeal was dismissed.In the Withers Farms case the court stated (at [74]) it did not find the section of the judgment dealing with causation easy to analyse; a number of different reasons for the judge’s conclusions were not set out in logical order but intertwined. [read post]
24 Mar 2013, 11:41 am
However, having done so the appeal was dismissed.In the Withers Farms case the court stated (at [74]) it did not find the section of the judgment dealing with causation easy to analyse; a number of different reasons for the judge’s conclusions were not set out in logical order but intertwined. [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 10:31 am
But even if ivi does wither, other contestants remain in the video-delivery-by-Internet race. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 6:39 pm
Not only did residents flock to bank ATMs to withdraw their funds, the country faced a withering attack from Russian President Vladimir Putin. [read post]
12 Mar 2013, 9:34 am
When you don't get around to blogging for a week, you miss a lot.I'd like to have written about how the Senate in Maryland voted to abolish the state's death penalty. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 9:06 am
The 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which allows the government to access emails more than 180 days old without a warrant if they're stored by a third party, was held unconstitutional by the appellate court (though regrettably its holding only applies in that circuit).In that ruling, the 6th Circuit offered up this observation which to me sums up the basis for reconsidering electronic privacy, not just for stored email but on location tracking and many other fronts: “the… [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm
The bill that ultimately became law had been fought over for eight years and, during that time, had suffered a series of withering cuts until it was anemic enough to gain majority support in Congress. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 4:32 pm
The EEOC’s Performance Improvement Officer, Claudia Withers, and the Director of Research, Information and Planning, Deidre Flippen, answered questions about the EEOC’s objective of strategic law enforcement and addressed the Strategic Plan’s performance measures. [read post]
24 Feb 2013, 12:05 pm
After the second college signed up, I couldn't find any more information about the program, and it appears the program gradually withered away. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 9:00 am
The social and psychological maladies he or others have attributed to this kind of liberalism are multiple and devastating: an overemphasis of rights over responsibilities, absolutism over compromise, cold tolerance over respectful engagement, conflation of the right to do something with the moral rightness of doing it, individual isolation and anomie instead of community and common purpose, and a withering away of the virtues and moral goods necessary to sustain democratic government and… [read post]
11 Feb 2013, 5:24 am
As fewer and fewer people pay attention to the withering away of their own rights, the powers that be will keep their enemies list more and more secret, each homicide less and less publicized. [read post]
4 Feb 2013, 9:15 am
What if I wither gradually, remaining mentally competent but a bit slower on the uptake, physically able but wobbly on my feet? [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 12:27 pm
I worked for the none of the above but I spent a decade in Louisville, in the warm lap of one of those newspaper monopolies against which we used to fulminate until they all began to crumble or wither away. [read post]
