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9 Jan 2009, 10:31 am
The Court accepted for review an appeal in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District v. [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
”For a brief period in the 1960s and 1970s, courts rejected the “hands off” doctrine and used the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment as a justification to scrutinize and reform the conditions of confinement in America’s prisons.Pugh v Locke, decided in 1976, is one of the most famous examples of this approach. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 4:57 am by Amy Howe
United States, the Facebook threats case, continues. [read post]
4 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Wade, decided in 1973, is a precedent of the United States Supreme Court. [read post]
1 Nov 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Marshall saw it as a broad and sweeping power granted to chief executives so they could act mercifully.That case, United States v. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 11:27 am by Greg Guedel
The Navajo Nation court system is the largest and most established Tribal legal system in the United States. [read post]
28 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat is Associate Provost, Associate Dean of the Faculty and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
20 Aug 2012, 8:17 am by Sanford Levinson
  A recent article by NYU law professor Richard Pildes suggested that several recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court, most notably Citizens United, fit the “counter-majoritarian” thesis to a tee. [read post]
30 Apr 2024, 12:52 am by centerforartlaw
By Olivia Zinzi and Dea Sula Precedent, “[a] professional name for the aggregate of reported cases as forming a body of jurisprudence; or for the law of a particular subject as evidenced or formed by the adjudged cases,” is one of the foundations of common law, which is practiced in the United States.[1] The highest court in the country, the Supreme Court, is the ultimate authority when it comes to precedent, issuing decisions that become stare decisis and bind lower… [read post]
10 Mar 2008, 1:10 pm
Therefore, in interpreting and applying this Code section, the courts of this state may draw from the opinions ofthe United States Supreme Court in Daubert v. [read post]