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13 Dec 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Who can forget Professor Orlando Patterson defending nominee Clarence Thomas against the charges raised by Anita Hill with the claim that his alleged behavior was just a “down-home style of courting” that people viewing it from within a black cultural milieu would understand? [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 4:30 am by Eric Segall
Lithwick writes the following about the march:Years later, when I told people that I felt bad for personally failing to take to the streets to protect the anti-racist counter protesters who stood up to white supremacists on August 12, I included the story about frantic calls to my big brother while I sobbed that there were Nazis parked on my sleepy residential street, and how I should have been out there slashing tires and punching fascists.The rest of the book tells the stories of remarkable women… [read post]
4 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm by Leslie C. Griffin
Another woman explains what Ninth Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt did to sexually harass her.Then there are Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford and their complaints against Justices Thomas and Kavanaugh, respectively.Kozinski retired soon after two former clerks complained publicly about his behavior. [read post]
2 Aug 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Today’s justices make generous use of legal canons—those old principles of interpretation that come from Roman law and are often, perhaps surprisingly, shared with Islamic law.[15]After Karl Llewelyn excoriated the use of these legal canons to interpret statutes as incoherent over half a century ago, Justice Scalia and his textualist colleagues (and disciples) rehabilitated them.[16]They are now favored tools for Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito, Roberts, and Thomas. [read post]
1 Aug 2022, 4:25 am by Sherry F. Colb
SA even had one of his little temper tantrum in which he repeated his claim because someone -- here the dissenters and his colleague Clarence Thomas -- disagreed with him. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 6:30 am
Securities and Exchange Commission, on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 Tags: Accounting, Accounting standards, ESG, Financial regulation, SEC, Securities regulation, Sustainability Delaware M&A Developments Posted by Andre Bouchard, Kyle Seifried, and Jaren Janghorbani, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Wednesday, July 27, 2022 Tags: Charter & bylaws, Delaware cases, Delaware law, DGCL, Merger… [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 6:30 am
Securities and Exchange Commission, on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 Tags: Accounting, Accounting standards, ESG, Financial regulation, SEC, Securities regulation, Sustainability Delaware M&A Developments Posted by Andre Bouchard, Kyle Seifried, and Jaren Janghorbani, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Wednesday, July 27, 2022 Tags: Charter & bylaws, Delaware cases, Delaware law, DGCL, Merger… [read post]
28 May 2022, 7:51 am by Eric Segall
Here are his ten greatest hits in no particular order (and please notice I am leaving out Anita Hill's allegations but not because I don't believe her).1) Justice Thomas has made numerous public appearances for the Heritage Foundation, a far right activist group, without disclosing that his wife had been a paid consultant for Heritage for years. [read post]
26 May 2022, 9:03 pm by Gary Gensler
I’d like to extend my gratitude to the members of the SEC staff who worked on this rule, including: Sarah ten Siethoff, Brian Johnson, Thoreau Bartmann, Mike Spratt, Sara Cortes, Michelle Beck, Michael Kosoff, Frank Sensenbrenner, Chris Staley, Zeena Abdul-Rahman, Pamela Ellis, Robert Holowka, Amy Miller, Nathan Schuur, Sam Thomas, Elena Stojic, Matthew Williams, Asaf Barouk, and Emily Rowland in the Division of Investment Management; Alex Schiller, Ross Askanazi, Rooholah Hadadi, and… [read post]
2 May 2022, 4:36 pm by Jeffrey Rosen
Those text are Thomas Jefferson’s Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia, drafted in 1777, and Justice Brandeis’s opinion in Whitney v. [read post]
11 Apr 2022, 7:00 am by James Romoser
Here’s the Monday morning read: Anita Hill Saw History Repeat Itself at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Hearings (David Remnick, The New Yorker) A Bad Precedent on the High Court (Daniel Huff, The Wall Street Journal) When a Supreme Court Justice Probably Endorsed Perjury (Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times) How Ginni Thomas jockeyed for influence in Trump’s orbit (Marshall Cohen, Pamela Brown, & Gabby Orr, CNN) Thomas Poses With Senate Candidate… [read post]
9 Apr 2022, 10:09 am by Howard Bashman
Anita Hill Saw History Repeat Itself at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Hearings; The key witness in Clarence Thomas’s nomination process joins David Remnick and Jane Mayer to discuss how sex and race shaped the new Justice’s experience, and her own”: The New Yorker has posted online this Q&A. [read post]
4 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”Perhaps the most infamous misuse of the language of lynching occurred more than thirty years ago in 1991 when Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas branded the Senate Judiciary Committee’s consideration of Anita Hill’s accusations of sexual harassment a “high tech lynching. [read post]
2 Apr 2022, 4:34 am by SHG
It reminds me that a few years after Anita Hill’s mistreatment during Justice Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings, the scholar Karla F.C. [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Virginia Thomas Urged White House Chief to Pursue Unrelenting Efforts to Overturn the 2020 Election, Texts Show MSN – Bob Woodward and Robert Costa (Washington Post) | Published: 3/24/2022 Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist married to U.S. [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 3:30 am by Anita Krishnakumar
Perhaps most notably, in an article titled Judging Ordinary Meaning Utah Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Thomas R. [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 5:36 pm by INFORRM
The UK Government has published a “call for evidence [pdf]” in relation to  so-called “Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPPs). [read post]
14 Feb 2022, 3:42 am by INFORRM
On 8 and 9 February 2022, there was a hearing in Vardy v Rooney before Mrs Justice Steyn. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 5:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Even more so ought to have been the underlying conduct that Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford respectively made credible allegations regarding. [read post]