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17 Jul 2014, 4:36 am by Ben
 Last month the Seventh Circuit upheld a lower-court decision that the elements included in the 50 Sherlock Holmes stories published before Jan. 1, 1923, are in the public domain in the United States. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 8:37 pm by Timothy P. Flynn
"For the past 20-years, the congregation of the Westboro Baptist Church has picketed military funerals to communicate its belief that God hates the United States for its tolerance of homosexuality, particularly in America's military. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 4:04 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Michael Willrich’s Pox is a history of the fight against smallpox near the end of the 19th century in the United States. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 8:13 am by Ronald Collins
Taft, Anti-Semitism in the United States (1920) Benjamin N. [read post]
20 Aug 2010, 7:20 am by Gregory Forman
Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. upheld a statute instituting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including “mental defectives,” “for the protection and health of the state. [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 10:02 pm by Jeff Gamso
 Nor does he quote Holmes, dissenting in Abrams v. [read post]
24 Mar 2007, 11:12 am
The United States was founded on a contradiction: all men are created equal; our Constitution enshrines slavery. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 12:08 pm
Much like the fact that almost 150 years after the ratification of the 13th Amendment the United States still struggles to annihilate human trafficking and slavery within its borders, most Americans are unaware of the history of eugenics and forced sterilization in the United States. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 12:08 pm
Much like the fact that almost 150 years after the ratification of the 13th Amendment the United States still struggles to annihilate human trafficking and slavery within its borders, most Americans are unaware of the history of eugenics and forced sterilization in the United States. [read post]
24 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Post’s new book, The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921-1930, is the latest installment of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. [read post]
14 Feb 2015, 5:03 am by SHG
United States, and its significance in deciding this case questioning how long a traffic stop can be extended to wait for the drug dog to show and do as he’s told: The apparent confusion in the courtroom was useful in one respect: It illuminated the cluelessness of Chief Justice John Roberts when it comes to traffic stops. [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 6:26 am
Bring on Sherlock Holmes . . .and at least one lawyer, trained in evidence . . . pro bono publico.THE GERUM CLOAK MYSTERYThe more than 2000-year old Cloak of Gerum (photos and info below) provides us - as we will show - with the greatest "real" (non-fiction) cloak and dagger mystery of all time, unsolved up to now, but - as we allege - for the most part solved (but not entirely) in this posting.The technology that we use to solve this mystery is demonstrated in the following… [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 4:00 am by Guest Blogger
As the late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Antonin Scalia once remarked, Marshall [the first black member of the U.S. [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
The Commerce Clause, in Nation and States,” at the U.S. [read post]
18 May 2023, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
They might do this, too, with the laws of Indian tribes, even as the United States pursued efforts to attack and eliminate them. [read post]