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He left the bulk of his estate to the United States.[2] He never explained what he expected the United States to do with the money, which was then the largest unrestricted gift ever made to the federal government.[3] “Taxes are the price we pay for civilized society,” he’d once written in a famous dissent.[4] Was the bequest a kind of tax he felt he owed the country? [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

A User’s Guide to Trump v. Anderson: Collected Posts

9 Feb 2024, 4:11 am by Marty Lederman

Below are links to the complete series of my posts on Trump v. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

News Roundup

9 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Shea Denning

See State v. [read post]

North Carolina Criminal Law Blog - http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/

A User’s Guide to Trump v. Anderson, Part Eight: The First Amendment/Right to Vote/Federalism-Based "Off-Ramp" Argument that is Likely to Carry the Day

8 Feb 2024, 9:44 am by Marty Lederman

Celebrezze and other election law cases (including importantly, Democratic Party v. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

[Eugene Volokh] "Seven Questions on Section 3: A Response to Professor Kurt Lash"

8 Feb 2024, 9:36 am by Eugene Volokh

The story of Floyd and his cabinet co-conspirators was the paradigm case that shaped Section 3. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

A User’s Guide to Trump v. Anderson, Part Seven: Trump’s Two Remaining “Off-Ramp” Arguments: (i) That Colorado has Implemented a De Facto Extraconstitutional Presidential Qualification, in Violation of Term Limits v. Thornton; and (ii) That Colorado has Abused its Article II Authority to Appoint Presidential Electors in a “Manner” of that Colorado Law Doesn’t Authorize

7 Feb 2024, 2:35 pm by Marty Lederman

And in support of that proposition, Gorsuch cited two Supreme Court cases—Munro v. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

A User’s Guide to Trump v. Anderson, Part Seven: Trump’s Two Remaining “Off-Ramp” Arguments: (i) That Colorado has Implemented a De Facto Extraconstitutional Presidential Qualification, in Violation of Term Limits v. Thornton; and (ii) That Colorado has Abused its Article II Authority to Appoint Presidential Electors in a “Manner” of Appointment that Colorado Law Doesn’t Authorize

7 Feb 2024, 2:02 pm by Marty Lederman

And in support of that proposition, Gorsuch cited two Supreme Court cases—Munro v. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

Beyond the Bench: Insights into the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise

7 Feb 2024, 10:30 am by Taylor Gulatsi

In 1938, Congress established a nine-person Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise Committee with representatives from the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and the United States Supreme Court. [read post]

In Custodia Legis - http://blogs.loc.gov/law

Bad Beat: Iowa Gambling Probe Allegedly Violated Student Athletes’ Constitutional Rights with Warrantless Geofence

5 Feb 2024, 2:13 pm by Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts

In the landmark case Carpenter v. [read post]

Law, Technology & Arts Blog - http://wjlta.wordpress.com/

Untitled

4 Feb 2024, 5:57 pm by Bruce Ackerman

Reed then explicitly rejects the Lederman view, in a discussion which concludes: The United States is a constitutional democracy. [read post]

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[Josh Blackman] In Trump v. Anderson, the Respondents' Theory Would Render Unconstitutional Every Speaker and President Pro Tempore Since 1789, as Well as President Grant's VP and Presidential Candidate George McGovern

4 Feb 2024, 1:01 pm by Josh Blackman

Fund v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Tereshchenko v. Karimi, 2024 WL 80427( S.D. New York.2024) - [Ukraine] [Petition for return of children to Father in France Granted]

4 Feb 2024, 9:50 am by Joel R. Brandes

Q v. [read post]

A Child is Missing - http://joelbrandes.blogspot.com/

Supreme Court to decide whether insurrection provision keeps Trump off ballot

2 Feb 2024, 1:14 pm by Amy Howe

ShareThe Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Thursday in what is shaping up to be the biggest election case since its ruling nearly 25 years ago in Bush v. [read post]

SCOTUSblog - http://www.scotusblog.com/

The Biden Administration Must Use Civil Rights Enforcement to Push Back Against Texas’s Racist Invocation of Invasion

1 Feb 2024, 6:05 am by Kate Huddleston

” In the 2012 touchstone decision Arizona v. [read post]

Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/

Skadden Discusses Securities Class Actions in 2024

31 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by renholding

For instance, in 2023, plaintiffs filed at least seven class actions against financial institutions, accusing them of downplaying liquidity and other concerns stemming from rising interest rates. [read post]

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Direct to Beneficial: Change of Corporate Ownership Structure Yields No Right to Dissent and Seek Appraisal

29 Jan 2024, 4:46 am by Franklin C. McRoberts

(“Simry”) was a family-owned real estate corporation with direct ownership and legal title to seven multi-unit residential real properties in Manhattan. [read post]

New York Business Divorce - http://www.nybusinessdivorce.com/