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Takeaways From the Facebook Threat and Title VII Head Scarf Cases Handed Down by the Court This Week
3 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm
On Monday the Supreme Court handed down two cases, Elonis v. [read post]
12 Feb 2015, 9:01 pm
This week offered quite the spectacle in Alabama. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 9:01 pm
Over the next month or two, tens of thousands of admitted applicants will make decisions about which law schools to attend. [read post]
3 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
The team, headed by Mary Jo White (a partner at the law firm of Debevoise and Plimpton and a former United States Attorney and Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission) and David Saratt (Senior Chair of Debevoise and a former Assistant United States Attorney), in concluding that Coach Meyer’s false statements were not deliberate, intimated instead that the statements may have been the product of “memory issues [even as to matters on which he had] prior extensive knowledge… [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
And membership changes have continued to influence doctrinal developments in fundamental areas of constitutional law: When one of us (Amar) graduated from law school in 1988, the Court was deferential to exercises of federal power. [read post]
16 Apr 2023, 9:02 pm
But for a recent example of the problems that arise when people speak before thinking these issues through, see this prior column that one of us (Amar) wrote.4. [read post]
10 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm
A recent column in the New York Times entitled “Defying the Supreme Court,” by noted and Pulitzer-prize winning journalist David Leonhardt, exemplifies the problem. [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
My biweekly column slot this week roughly coincides with the beginning of the new academic year at most law schools across the country. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
A few months ago, I wrote about an effort by the California legislature to undo an unwise (but duly enacted) voter initiative involving immigration policy. [read post]
26 Mar 2015, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we analyze some complicated legal questions arising out of a proposed California initiative—the so-called “Sodomite Suppression Act” (SSA)—whose illegality and immorality are not complicated at all. [read post]
1 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm
As is typical, the Supreme Court this year delivered some of its biggest rulings at the end of the term. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm
In today’s column, I analyze the Supreme Court oral argument held a few weeks ago in Walker v. [read post]
20 May 2021, 9:01 pm
In our last column, we focused on the “Most Favored Nation” (“MFN”) approach to the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment from the vantage point of protecting religious exercise as a liberty right. [read post]
21 May 2015, 9:01 pm
A few weeks ago the Supreme Court handed down an important yet under-noticed case, Williams-Yulee v. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm
June 2019 might become known in Illinois as the month the state legalized marijuana use, but I hope it remains better remembered as the 100th anniversary of Illinois’ ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment—the provision in the Constitution that prohibited discrimination in voting on account of sex. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:00 pm
Partisan gerrymandering, one of the subjects of the Supreme Court’s important ruling in June in the Moore v. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
Now that one U.S. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm
Over the next few days, the California Bar announces the outcomes from the July 2014 exam. [read post]
14 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
As the fall semester approaches and college freshmen prepare to start school, there is renewed criticism of the University of California’s decision, implemented over the last few years at all or nearly all of the system’s campuses, to increase the number and percentage of out-of-state and international college students. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
In my last column, I began analyzing a recent plan by Silicon Valley billionaire investor Tim Draper to break up California into three separate states stemming from his view that “California’s diverse population and economies [have] rendered the state nearly ungovernable. [read post]
