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9 Aug 2013, 6:05 am
In 1998, Shon Hopwood was sentenced to 147 months in federal prison for bank robbery. [read post]
8 Aug 2013, 2:07 pm
Hopwood proves that my sentencing instincts suck. [read post]
8 Aug 2013, 1:30 pm
Hopwood, 38, also visited former solicitor general Seth Waxman, who has been something of a mentor to Hopwood for more than a decade. [read post]
7 Aug 2013, 2:05 pm
Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown has hired former bank robber and jailhouse lawyer Shon Hopwood as her new clerk. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 4:56 pm
(Id. at 2 [citing Hopwood v. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 8:23 am
., 2006)Shon Hopwood, Law ManDownload the full text of the article from SSRN at the link. [read post]
11 Sep 2012, 8:27 am
” Richard Ford wrote: “There’s not a huge difference between considering race as one of many factors, as Grutter allows, and ignoring race but instead considering a host of social disadvantages that highly correlate with race, as the University of Texas did after the Fifth Circuit invalidated affirmative action in Hopwood and as the University of California has done since it was prohibited from considering race by Proposition 209. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 11:39 am
That plan, adopted by the Texas legislature in the wake of the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in Hopwood v. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 3:10 pm
There’s not a huge difference between considering race as one of many factors, as Grutter allows, and ignoring race but instead considering a host of social disadvantages that highly correlate with race, as the University of Texas did after the Fifth Circuit invalidated affirmative action in Hopwood and as the University of California has done since it was prohibited from considering race by Proposition 209. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 1:36 pm
When UT-Austin was temporarily barred from using race by a 1996 Fifth Circuit ruling in the case of Hopwood v. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 12:14 pm
Craig Seligman of Bloomberg reports on the story of Shon Hopwood, who drafted a successful petition for certiorari while serving a prison sentence for armed robbery and now has a new book, Law Man, out. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 11:46 am
After Hopwood got out of prison, the inmate, now a car dealer, gave him a new Mercedes Benz as thanks. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 6:41 am
Shon Hopwood? [read post]
3 Sep 2012, 7:57 am
Thanks to How Appealing for the link to this story by Craig Seligman in Bloomberg News that begins:Shon Hopwood robbed... [read post]
3 Sep 2012, 6:40 am
"Bill Gates Sends Ex-Con To Law School After Supreme Court Win": Craig Seligman of Bloomberg News has an article that begins, "Shon Hopwood robbed five banks, went to jail, learned law, wrote a petition that made it to the Supreme Court, served his time, got out, got married, had kids and is now in law school at the University of Washington on a scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 12:12 pm
“Law Man: Memoir of a Jailhouse Lawyer Now Law Student”Excerpt from the blog post: “’Law Man’ is second-year law student Shon Hopwood's memoir of his unusual path to law school, written with Dennis Burke.Unlike the students who come to law school after 17 years of playing by the rules, kindergarten through college, Shon Hopwood made some significant mistakes. [read post]
19 Aug 2012, 9:08 pm
Posner on patents [via Josh Wright, TotM] “Congress Takes Aim at ‘Patent Trolls’ With SHIELD Act” [Lisa Shuchman, Corporate Counsel] “Guest Post: The Bucky Balls Ban” [Free-Range Kids, earlier] Preacher Bill Keller threatens defamation suit against SPLC unless it removes his ministry from “hate group” list [Ed Kilgore, Washington Monthly, earlier on SPLC vs. critics] Both sides of the law: “Shon Hopwood robbed five banks. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 3:16 pm
Shon and Ann Marie Hopwood's website. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 6:28 am
A new start, thanks to the law: Tony Mauro profiles Shon Hopwood, a law student at the University of Washington who went from robbing banks to helping a fellow prison inmate secure a U.S. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 7:27 am
Josh Blackman interviews Shon Hopwood, author of the book "Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption. [read post]
