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28 Oct 2020, 9:16 am by Connor Clerkin, Lane Corrigan
” Gorsuch similarly found the district court’s order inappropriate on the basis of both separation of powers and voter confusion concerns. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 8:17 am by Marcus Evans (UK) and Janine Regan (UK)
  The UK case: On 5 June 2015, Privacy International brought a case before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) against the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Secretary for State for the Home Department and the UK SIAs which challenged the lawfulness of the acquisition and use of bulk communications metadata. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 9:00 am by ernst
Peter Gerangelos, University of Sydney Law School, has posted Sir Owen Dixon and the Concept of 'Nationhood' as a Source of Commonwealth Power, which appears in Sir Owen Dixon's Legacy (Federation Press, 2019): 56-79:Owen Dixon (wiki)The principal focus of this chapter is to trace from the reasoning of Dixon J, and those whom he influenced, the High Court’s evolving jurisprudence with respect to the concept of “nationhood” as a source of… [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 6:26 pm by Amy Howe
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trailblazer who fought for gender equality as a lawyer and became a beloved hero of the progressive movement as a justice, died on Friday of complications from pancreatic cancer. [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  (This is the deep meaning of the fact, for example, that four of the American states—Massachusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky (originally, of course, part of Virginia)—styled themselves as “commonwealths,” i.e., communities organized around the seeking of a common good. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 6:18 am by Cory Doctorow
In drafting this provision, Congress ostensibly believed it was preserving fair use and free expression but failed to understand how the new law would interact with technology in the real world and how some courts could interpret the law to drastically expand the power of copyright owners. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 8:40 am by Randy E. Barnett
(2015) Michael Paulsen & Luke Paulsen, The Constitution: An Introduction (2015) Thomas Leonard, Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era (2016) Tara Smith, Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System (2015) Ilya Somin, The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 1:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
The Commonwealth is currently considering an extension of this policy through the end of the year.[2] This has, of course, raised the hackles of New Hampshire officials, who govern a state without a wage income tax. [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 7:13 am by Ian Mance
Mar. 31, 2020) (denying habeas relief where prisoner failed to demonstrate circumstances of incarceration violated Eighth Amendment); Commonwealth v. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 7:20 am by Ronald Collins
He did not believe in the biblical God, preferring instead to think broadly in terms of an unknowable power that transcended the physical world. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 1:59 pm by Toby Heytens and Martine Cicconi
Heytens is solicitor general and Martine Cicconi is deputy solicitor general of the Commonwealth of Virginia, which filed an amicus brief on behalf of 15 states and the District of Columbia in support of the respondent in Trump v. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 3:35 pm by Kevin LaCroix
While inquiries into the Australian class actions market and the potential regulation of litigation funders are not new[v], the Federal Government in the past two months has sharply turned its attention on litigation funders by taking two significant steps: Litigation funding inquiry: On 13 May 2020, the Commonwealth Attorney-General announced an inquiry into litigation funding and the regulation of the class action industry. [read post]