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Time to check your crystal ball to see what it portends for the legal industry in 2015 – or you can just head over to the Business of Law Blog to see what others think. [read post]

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The Supreme Court Considers “True Threats” and the First Amendment

9 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb

Supreme Court heard argument in Elonis v. [read post]

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What Will the Supreme Court Say About Searches of Hotel Guest Records?

11 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb

Maryland and United States v. [read post]

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Is It Arbitrary to Distinguish Incest From Homosexuality?

16 Sep 2014, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb

Justice Scalia famously said in his angry dissent from Lawrence v. [read post]

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Are “Advisory” Measures” (Like Proposition 49) Permitted on the California Ballot?

28 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar

In a surprise to some political observers, on August 11 the California Supreme Court, by a 5-1 vote (the court is temporarily down one member since Justice Kennard’s retirement last spring), decided to block the measure from the ballot, at least for now. [read post]

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The Fifth Circuit Blocks Mississippi Law From Closing the Last Abortion Clinic

18 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb

Under Planned Parenthood v. [read post]

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What Counts as an Abortion, and Does It Matter?

22 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb

Supreme Court’s recent case of Burwell v. [read post]

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The Supreme Court Decides Riley v. California and Updates the Fourth Amendment

30 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb

Last week, the Supreme Court handed down Riley v. [read post]

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The Legal Price of Adultery Goes Down: North Carolina and West Virginia Abandon Heartbalm Actions

23 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman

Rothrock v. [read post]

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The U.S. Supreme Court Narrows States’ Discretion to Execute the Intellectually Disabled

9 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb

Supreme Court decided Hall v. [read post]

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U.S. Supreme Court Considers Whether the Fourth Amendment Allows Reasonable Mistakes of Substantive Law: Part Two of a Two-Part Series of Columns

4 May 2014, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb

Sherry F. [read post]

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Argument analysis: Justices skeptical of Coke’s right to “cheat consumers.”

22 Apr 2014, 3:00 pm by Ronald Mann

For a while, during the argument of Seth Waxman (for POM) and Melissa Sherry (Assistant to the Solicitor General, on behalf of the FDA), it seemed that the Justices were taking it easy after the heated argument in Republic of Argentina v. [read post]

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Minnesota Court Rules That First Amendment Protects Encouraging a Suicide

15 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb

According to Brandenburg v. [read post]

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s View of Consent in Fernandez v. California

4 Mar 2014, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb

Indeed, in Schneckloth v. [read post]

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Claimed Ignorance of C.S.S.A. Treatment of Income Over Cap Not Basis to Set Aside Divorce Settlement Agreement

23 Feb 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil Cahn

Ecker in his January 16, 2014 opinion in A.B. v. [read post]