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7 Mar 2017, 4:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Houston officials defend the indefensible. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 10:32 am by Eric Segall
 Later in this section of the brief, the authors quote Madison for the proposition that it is indefensible that the "Govt. may stifle all censures on its misdoings; for if it be itself the Judge it will never allow any censures to be just, and if it can suppress censures flowing from one lawful source it may those flowing from any other— from the press and from individuals as well as from Societies. [read post]
11 Jul 2023, 11:43 am by David Super
  We can and should end legacy college admissions, but we should not deceive ourselves that this is more than the barest tip of an iceberg of skewed, largely indefensible criteria lurking just beneath the surface. [read post]
10 Jun 2022, 5:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Or as Congresswoman Cheney said last night to her "Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: there will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain. [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 5:30 am by Kenneth J. Vanko
Godlevsky, a federal district court awarded the plaintiff its attorneys' fees in a trade secrets suit for what the court called defense behavior that was "so acrimonious, vexatious, and indefensible that... [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 1:04 am by Florian Mueller
The Daily Mail was never the EU's best friend, but in this article the British newspaper quotes media from all over Europe, including some very EU-friendly ones, who concluded they can't defend the indefensible anymore with respect to the EU's temporary intentions to put border controls in place between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in order to enforce vaccine export restrictions (which are, by the way, the epitome of "vaccine nationalism" as opposed… [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 3:52 pm by Lovechilde
Kamala Harris (D-Bad Ass) tried to pin him down on the existence of this policy, he claimed he was too nervous to answer the question and had to be bailed out by John McCain (R-Old White Man), who scolded Harris for being too tough on his friend.Sessions also relied on an indefensible interpretation of executive privilege. [read post]
Because it would have entailed the awful human costs of an invasion, Truman’s demand for Japan’s unconditional surrender to end the war was indefensible. [read post]
15 Feb 2020, 10:06 am by Sandy Levinson
 However,  I think that is ultimately indefensible if in fact one has good grounds, as we do, to fear the demented instability of an incumbent. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 7:30 am by Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
It’s indefensible to make it worse in the name of protecting a few banks from having to update their legacy decrypt systems. [read post]
30 Nov 2012, 2:02 pm
  These people directly hold the economic fates of at least several thousand people in their hands; so even if their threats are morally indefensible, at least we can see why they draw attention. [read post]
13 Dec 2013, 12:17 am
My apologies to my readers for not only these over-the-edge lawyers who argued this laughable defense, but much more so, for this flamingly, and indefensibly, liberal judge. [read post]
26 Feb 2022, 5:00 pm by Jason Mazzone
  In particular, the notion – advanced in recent years by litigants, several Justices and a few law professors  – that Article II of the Constitution confers power on elected state legislatures, in regulating the selection of presidential electors, to disregard the very state constitutions that created and confine those legislatures, and the related notion that federal (rather than state) courts are in this setting the appropriate judicial interpreters of state election laws… [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 12:04 pm by Daniel Shaviro
 But in any event, the Tax Court's reliance on the "in all cases" language is what prevented its decision from being as clearly indefensible legally as it is substantively.Also, I don't dispute that the Treasury generally ought to take seriously the evidence that taxpayers adduce in the reg process - it was just that here, given the absurd nature of the arm's length standard as applied to related party transactions, the evidence offered truly was substantively… [read post]
16 Apr 2019, 7:40 pm by Steve Vladeck
Congress has indefensibly barred the transfer of Guantánamo detainees into the United States, even for purposes of criminal trial, and so it’s GTMO or bust for the 40 men still imprisoned there, at least 14 of whom are connected to the commissions. [read post]
30 Apr 2020, 12:19 am by Florian Mueller
But Nokia and, by extension, Ericsson benefit from such an obvious and indefensible kind of protectionism that this situation threatens to wreak havoc to the EU Commission's credibility as a competition watchdog on the global stage.So Daimler's and its suppliers' tough luck here is that shrinking Nordic companies are above EU law in the eyes of some people in Brussels--according to what I've heard from a variety of sources, Nokia can also count on French commissioner… [read post]
13 Jul 2022, 7:04 am by jonathanturley
What I find “indefensible” is the limitless interpretation given to the statute. [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 8:50 am by Mark Theodore
”  Rather, the correct inquiry is “whether the communication reasonably targeted the employer’s labor practices, or indefensibly disparaged the quality of the employer’s product or services. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 4:00 am by SHG
The Court’s implication that where electronic privacy is concerned we should decide less than we otherwise would (that is, less than the principle of law necessary to resolve the case and guide private action) — or that we should hedge our bets by concocting case-specific standards or issuing opaque opinions — is in my view indefensible. [read post]