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30 Oct 2018, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
Most members of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English-speaking world—from Matthew Hale and William Blackstone to James Otis and Samuel Adams—assumed that constitutions were fixed but changing. [read post]
7 Oct 2018, 2:00 am by NCC Staff
James Otis, a firebrand lawyer, had popularized the phrase “taxation with representation is tyranny” in a series of public arguments. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 11:53 pm by Steve Lubet
 Chicago blues musician Otis Rush passed away last week. [read post]
2 Oct 2018, 6:30 am by ernst
The revolutionary lawyers, including John Adams’s idol James Otis, Jr., Pennsylvania’s John Dickinson, and Virginians Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, along with Adams and others, deployed the skills of their profession to further the public welfare in challenging times. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 9:40 am by Laurel Davis
Some highlights include: heavily annotated copies of important legal texts like Edward Coke's Reports and Richard Burn's Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer; a trial pamphlet for an 1859 Boston trial regarding the alleged assault and battery by a teacher upon a Roman Catholic pupil for his refusal to recite the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments; a statement of account from Daniel Webster's legal practice before he entered the world of politics; a writ from a lawsuit filed… [read post]
29 Aug 2018, 10:36 am by Jon Brodkin
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Dimitri Otis) An appeals court has upheld a Federal Communications Commission ruling that broadband markets can be competitive even when there is only one Internet provider. [read post]
25 Aug 2018, 1:06 pm by Kelsey Farish
District Judge Otis Wright stated that the Prenda attorneys had “discovered the nexus of antiquated copyright laws, paralyzing social stigma, and unaffordable defense costs. [read post]
24 Aug 2018, 7:09 am by Christy Love
Case Background:In 1998, the Sixth Circuit reviewed Matthew Otis Charles’ case for the first time (United States v. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 9:51 am by Eugene Volokh
Goodman has also cited the Allman Brothers, Bo Diddley, Bruce Springsteen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Guns N Roses, Johnny Cash, the Kinks, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Madonna, Neil Young, REM, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Petty, U2, and the Yardbirds. [read post]
11 Aug 2018, 3:42 pm
I go into the Miami courthouseexcited to do my thing.Yet when I step onto the escalatorit’s not what I’d be expecting.I see those yellow pieces of plasticJeez, I now know what to expect.Those stairs are supposed to be movingbut the machinery is always wrecked.Now an escalator is hardly uniquenor is it modern high tech.Because they’re located all over the placeyet in this courthouse, such pieces of drek.They’re as common as a can belocated all over the place,But when… [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 8:00 am by Daniel Perlman
The star was also vandalized just days before the November 2016 election by James Otis. [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 8:44 pm by Howard Bashman
“TSA Agents Immune From Flyer-Abuse Lawsuits, Court Rules”: Otis Wright has this post at “The Points Guy” blog. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 10:35 am by Kevin Kaufman
In his day, James Otis was a prominent lawyer, legislator, and Patriot, but today his name is all but forgotten—but when all else fades from memory, words endure. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 9:03 am by Rebecca Jeschke
., Billy Joel, Elton John/Bernie Taupin, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Lil Yachty, Linkin Park, Demi Lovato, the Mamas & the Papas, Steve Mac, Maroon 5, Shawn Mendes, Metro Boomin, Miguel, Nicki Minaj, Stephan Moccio, Mumford & Sons, Jimmy Napes, Randy Newman, New Order, Ne-Yo, Pearl Jam, Rudy Perez, Post Malone, Otis Redding, R.E.M., Rex Orange County, Carole Bayer Sager, Gustavo Santaolalla, Sex Pistols, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, Stax (East Memphis… [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 3:23 am by NCC Staff
In a famous attack on the constitutionality of writs of assistance in 1761, prominent lawyer James Otis said, “It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. [read post]
26 Apr 2018, 8:30 pm by Jamie Markham
The report confirms the value of the tools DAC uses to assess probationers’ risk of re-arrest (the Offender Traits Inventory–Revised, or OTI-R) and to grade their needs level. [read post]