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4 Dec 2013, 8:25 am
Posner also cited figures that just .3 percent of abortions have medical complications. [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 7:39 am by Ron Coleman
Republished by Blog Post PromoterDavid Post discusses Judge Richard Posner’s musings on the pretty hopeless prospects of the newspaper biz: [I]f “the newspaper” as a business model fails (because of competition from the free content available on the Net), who will invest the resources required for adequate news-gathering services in the first place? [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 8:30 am by azatty
Richard Posner and his cat: Is law school the way it is because of this man? [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 8:05 pm by Walter Olson
KlearGear and the consumer non-disparagement clause that ate (or tried to eat) Chicago [Popehat and followup] “House Passes Bill That Would Open Asbestos Trusts To Scrutiny” [Daniel Fisher/Forbes, Chamber-backed Legal NewsLine] Randy Maniloff interviews Judge Richard Posner on his new book Reflections on Judging [Coverage Opinions] In a custody fight, anything can happen: “Dad Accused of ‘Unfit Parenting’ for Refusing to Take His Son to… [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 5:25 am by David Bernstein
(David Bernstein) While I greatly admire Judge Richard Posner’s amazing corpus of work, I’ve noticed in recent pieces that he has a tendency to state propositions as indisputable, absolute truths when they are at least disputable, and sometimes flat wrong. [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 10:15 am by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) At the JOTWELL site, Emory law professor Charles Shanor reviews an important article by Judge Richard Posner on the rise and fall of “Thayerian” judicial deference to legislatures. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 6:09 am by Staci Zaretsky
* Judge Richard Posner is the latest judge to have admitted to making a possible error (which he later endlessly recanted), but hey, if he was wrong, at least he was wrong in a “responsible, informed, and fair-minded way. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 8:18 pm by Barry Barnett
But Blawgletter thinks she has a More Telling point, as her choice of an ending quotation -- of Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner -- suggests: By self-awareness and discipline, a judge can learn not to allow his sympathies or antipathies to influence his judicial votes -- unduly. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 6:31 am
Arguing to the contrary, in the context of overall white collar crime cases, Judge Posner asserts that the optimal sanctions in white collar violations should be limited to civil fines, eliminating the criminal stigma and incarceration of prosperous individuals and firms as both unprofitable and unnecessary.49 Judge Posner’s specific objection to white collar crimes, as opposed to white collar civil violations, is that the costs of criminal prosecution outweigh the benefits. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 4:58 am by Amy Howe
In her column for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse uses recent comments by Judge Richard Posner about his decision upholding Indiana’s voter identification law (which the Court, in an opinion by now-retired Justice John Paul Stevens, affirmed) as a jumping-off point to discuss how judges – including the Justices of the Supreme Court – “learn what they need to know” and “choose what to make of the knowledge that they have. [read post]
30 Oct 2013, 10:57 am by Peter Tillers
., October 28, 2013) (Posner, J.): What is troubling about the case is not its disposition but that both the district judge, and the magistrate judge whose recommendation to grant summary judgment the district judge accepted, believed that Jackson “can present evidence permitting a reasonable inference” that he had experienced a serious medical condition as a consequence of the interruption of his medication. [read post]
29 Oct 2013, 1:31 pm by Staci Zaretsky
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29 Oct 2013, 5:32 am
Who puts out more outside-of-the-opinions writings about what's really going on in the opinions than Richard Posner? [read post]
28 Oct 2013, 3:24 pm by Will Baude
(Will Baude) Two weeks ago, Jonathan noted that in an interview with Mike Sacks of the Huffington Post, Judge Richard Posner said that he thought he’d been wrong to uphold Indiana’s voter ID statute in Crawford v. [read post]