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27 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
The first trial ended in a mistrial when jurors could not agree on whether he should be convicted of second-degree or first-degree murder.In advance of that trial, the prosecutors developed a strategy to get around the requirements of the United States Supreme Court’s 1986 Batson v Kentucky decision. [read post]
30 Oct 2022, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
”Those restrictions, the plaintiffs rightly contended, make it impossible for them to file any Eighth Amendment claim should serious problems occur during their executions.On October 19, the U.S. [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Wrestling with Religious Diversity, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 5:07 am by John Jascob
Bush on July 30, 2002 signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act into law after the accounting scandals at Enron and WorldCom Inc. shook markets and U.S. financial regulators. [read post]