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25 Feb 2023, 6:50 pm by admin
  Irving John Selikoff was born as Irving Selecoff in the brain basket of America, Brooklyn, New York, to Abraham and Matilda (Tillie) Selecoff.[7]  His father, Abraham, was born on April 6, 1885, in the Kyiv oblast of what is now Ukraine.[8] 1920. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Those challenges have alleged that Black defendants are more likely than White defendants to get death sentences, even when they commit comparable crimes.In 1972, the United States Supreme Court’s Furman v. [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 3:29 pm by Reference Staff
Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Association, 443 U.S. 658 (1979) and Washington v. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 6:30 am by John Mikhail
The Constitution of the United States has been called the world’s most important legal document. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
In 1776, when the United States of America was founded, the legal institution of slavery existed in every state in the union. [read post]
18 Jan 2023, 5:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Thus, for example, Justice Thomas (in his concurrence in United States v. [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Thus, for example, Justice Thomas (in his concurrence in United States v. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
After all, the first secessionists met in Hartford in 1814, and William Lloyd Garrison famously endorsed “no Union with slaveholders. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
The last half century has witnessed extraordinary, almost unimaginable, changes in how Americans think about the death penalty.Fifty years ago, in 1972, the United States Supreme Court brought a temporary halt to capital punishment in Furman v. [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]
27 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
The first trial ended in a mistrial when jurors could not agree on whether he should be convicted of second-degree or first-degree murder.In advance of that trial, the prosecutors developed a strategy to get around the requirements of the United States Supreme Court’s 1986 Batson v Kentucky decision. [read post]