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18 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
The contract was arranged by businessperson Greg Gibson, one of two principal investors in Spectacle Entertainment. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
This week’s proposal by President Trump that immigrants detained at the border be relocated to so-called “sanctuary” cities (which the federal government has previously defined as jurisdictions that refuse to assist in federal immigration enforcement), so that these cities will bear the costs of absorbing the detainees, is not the first time the federal government has considered punishing (as distinguished from simply withholding federal funding from) sanctuary jurisdictions. [read post]
17 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
As the national discussion about who should be president after 2020 is heating up, so is the conversation about how we should pick presidents. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
(For a full explanation of why the AIRC ruling means direct democracy is permissible in electoral college reform, see my Justia essay written in the wake of the ruling.)Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In our two previous columns on the recent lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR) for its use of race and gender in selecting its members and authors for publication, we explored challenges the plaintiff faces in establishing standing to sue in federal court, the relationship of Title VI and IX (the statutory provisions the plaintiff has invoked) to the constitutional… [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 4:31 pm by INFORRM
Judge Gibson is the author of the Bulletin for Australian Defamation Law and Practice (Lexis Nexis). [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
In our last column, we explored some threshold justiciability issues (focusing on the plaintiff’s standing to sue in federal court) in the recent federal lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR), challenging HLR’s use of race and gender in selecting members and also in selecting authors for publication. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Public universities all over the country are grappling with the challenges that arise when members of the university community (especially so-called Registered Student Organizations or RSOs) invite contentious speakers to campus for events that threaten to generate tremendous passion on all sides of controversial issues, and that carry with them the realistic prospect of violence. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 6:14 am
Pacifici, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, on Saturday, February 9, 2019 Tags: Covenants, Delaware cases, Delaware law, Duty of good faith, LLCs, Merger litigation, Mergers & acquisitions, Minority shareholders, Private equity Industry as Peer Group Criterion Posted by Louisa Lan, Equilar, Inc., on Saturday, February 9, 2019 Tags: Compensation disclosure, Executive Compensation, Pay for performance, Peer… [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
For many law students, membership in and service on an academic journal is a highlight of the law school experience. [read post]
29 Jan 2019, 6:13 am by Florian Mueller
Olson does disclose the fact that his law firm, Gibson Dunn, represents Apple's contract manufacturers in the San Diego Apple v. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Last week an Alabama trial court judge (Michael Graffeo) made national news when (literally just minutes before his judicial term expired and he began retirement) he held that the Alabama Memorial Protection Act (AMPA)—which prohibits public jurisdictions within the state from altering or otherwise disturbing public monuments that have been in existence for at least forty years—violated the Fourteenth Amendment free speech and due process rights of the City of Birmingham, which sought to… [read post]
10 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In my last column, Part One of this series, I examined a lawsuit challenging the Arizona state law scheme for holding a replacement election to fill the US Senate vacancy created by John McCain’s death last year. [read post]
10 Jan 2019, 4:00 am by Canadian Association of Law Libraries
Reviewed by David Hurren Hurren and Gibson, Fort Erie, ON In CLLR 43:2 Incitement on Trial by Richard Ashby Wilson is a detailed examination of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its inability to prosecute what the author calls the inchoate crime of incitement. [read post]