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20 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
”For a brief period in the 1960s and 1970s, courts rejected the “hands off” doctrine and used the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment as a justification to scrutinize and reform the conditions of confinement in America’s prisons.Pugh v Locke, decided in 1976, is one of the most famous examples of this approach. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 8:13 am by Michael Grossman
It was in the highest appellate court in the land, the United States Supreme Court, that the final word was handed down. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 6:39 pm
Episcopalians this time were able to follow all of the debates of General Convention on streaming video, and there is no better medium in which to perceive, at first-hand, the Church's liberal faction dominating the entire show.In addition, many of the gays, lesbians, transsexuals and similar persons who flout their orientations in public appeared online in demonstrations, interviews and other publicity stunts designed to attract attention to their agendas, which are wrecking the… [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 12:20 pm by Benjamin Pollard
The United States repatriated Assadullah Haroon Gul, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, writes the New York Times. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 4:27 am by SHG
That the election of the President of the United States of America should hinge on someone like my mother’s ability to figure out how to use a ballot was a matter of some serious concern. [read post]
1 Jun 2021, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  For example, I’ve long taught the fascinating case of Elkison v. [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 8:24 am by Clara Spera
 The United States is ranked eleventh. [read post]
15 Jul 2014, 9:00 am by Benjamin Wittes
Recalling that Israeli espionage against the United States had not profoundly disrupted the Israeli-American relationship, Wittes urged the Germans to “finally grow up. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 8:40 am by Liskow & Lewis
  The supreme court reached its conclusion that the exemplary damages award in Bennett violated federal due process constraints by analyzing it within the framework that the United States Supreme Court established in BMW of North America, Inc. v. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 8:40 am by Andrew Wooley
 The supreme court reached its conclusion that the exemplary damages award in Bennett violated federal due process constraints by analyzing it within the framework that the United States Supreme Court established in BMW of North America, Inc. v. [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 4:33 pm
" [emphasis added]As political centrists, we have been waiting for over a year now for a sign from the United States Supreme Court under new Chief Justice John Roberts and new Justice Samuel Alito that things are going to turn for the better in America's highest court.Phillip Morris USA v. [read post]
29 Feb 2020, 6:30 am by Stephen Griffin
”  And again, “there is no proof that it is any kind of serious problem in the United States. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 7:59 am by John Hochfelder
United States of America (N.D.N.Y. 2020)  ordered that an award of pain and suffering damages in the sum of $18,000,000 ($7,500,000 past – 15.5 years, $10,500,000 future – 20.5 years) “does not deviate materially from reasonable compensation. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 12:58 pm by John Elwood
Caulkett 13-1421, and Bank of America v. [read post]