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29 Dec 2015, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Grant, and among those opposing the war as illegitimate was Congressman Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 4:31 pm by Sean Wajert
The last opportunity I had to see the Judge was at a special exhibit earlier this year at the University of Pennsylvania Library, which reunited two of the few remaining copies of the Emancipation Proclamation that were autographed by Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 4:26 pm by Scott Maravilla
Ok, maybe Abraham Lincoln is the exception, but you get my point. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 8:18 am by Mark Astarita
 The report also discusses new requirements for NRSROs that took effect in June to address internal controls, conflicts of interest, disclosure of credit rating performance statistics, procedures to protect the integrity and transparency of rating methodologies, disclosures to promote the transparency of credit ratings, and standards for training, experience, and competence of credit analysts.The following SEC staff contributed to the examinations and reports:  Diane Audino, David… [read post]
25 Dec 2015, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The first Civil War amnesty proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on December 8, 1863. [read post]
24 Dec 2015, 12:10 am by Kevin
The 116: The True Story of Abraham Lincoln’s Lost Guard, by Jim Muehlberger This new history book, by one of my partners at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, is about a bunch of guys from Kansas who somehow ended up in Washington at the beginning of the Civil War guarding the president from a kidnapping and assassination plot. [read post]
23 Dec 2015, 5:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Ruckman Jr’s excellent blog Pardon Power, Abraham Lincoln granted clemency every single month of his administration as an act of mercy and a canny political strategy. [read post]
22 Dec 2015, 10:55 am by Patrick A. Malone
We also need to continue to support public health, which gets a tiny slice of the total healthcare budget but produces a big bang for it, and, yes, we need to stop seeing infectious disease specialists (physicians and epidemiologists) as second-class practitioners, as noted MD-author Abraham Verghese, now at Stanford, has described in his books. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 10:35 am by Andrew Hamm
Abraham Lincoln himself shared this mindset. [read post]
20 Dec 2015, 8:45 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  The Better Angels of Our Nature: There have been few darker hours in our country’s history than March 4, 1861, the date of Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address. [read post]
20 Dec 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
Olmsted (The New Press).Also in The NYT is a review of Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkel's A Just and Generous Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American Opportunity (Basic Books).Here's two from H-Net. [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 7:42 am by Andrew Weber
  The image below comes from the Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress and shows that the Joint Resolution submitting the 13th Amendment to the states was signed by Abraham Lincoln and Congress: For more on how the 13th Amendment has been interpreted by the U.S. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 3:46 am by INFORRM
Personal injury was argued not to be a proper guide for awarding damages in libel relying on the judgment of Lord Hoffman in the Privy Council in The Gleaner Co Ltd v Abrahams [2004] 1 AC 628. [read post]
12 Dec 2015, 9:31 am by Victoria Kwan
” Two days later, Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a lecture on constitutional interpretation at the Abraham Lincoln Foundation of the Union League of Philadelphia, where he stated that his textualism sometimes compels him toward results that he personally would not prefer. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 6:16 am
This post examines an opinion from the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division:  People v. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 8:37 pm by Ron Coleman
Lackman, from Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, along with Kia Holifield Wimmer, Senior Counsel of apparel giant VF Corporation’s intellectual property services subsidiary to try to make sense of things. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 8:03 am by Robert Natelson (guest-blogging)
Accordingly, in late 1860 and early 1861, both the outgoing president, James Buchanan, and his successor, Abraham Lincoln, urged the states to apply for an Article V convention. [read post]