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29 Jan 2012, 6:08 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
” Georges Melies, magician. 1896-1913 did over 500 movies, and invented special effects. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
We discover that Sutherland's legislative career saw him support the eight-hour day, the Employers' Liability Act, the Pure Food and Drugs Act, the Hepburn Rate Bill, the Children's Bureau, the Seaman's Act of 1915, Postal Savings Banks, free coinage of silver, and the 1896 presidential candidacy of the populist William Jennings Bryan. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 5:54 am
(photo credit) As described here,Youmans excelled on the platform, where her long, turgid, but emotionally inspired speeches based on biblical themes were enthusiastically received.A few years before she died in 1896, from bouts with inflammatory rheumatism, Youmans was named the honorary 1st president of Canada's Dominion Women's Christian Temperance Union. [read post]
1 Jan 2012, 1:21 pm by Gerard Magliocca
Magliocca, however, contributes new dimensions to the literature by highlighting the huge constitutional changes produced by the “system of 1896. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 12:00 am
This time of year many people will buy foie gras, believing the industry [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 11:35 am by Brian D. Moore
”Recognizing that Illinois courts have failed to consistently apply a three-prong analysis that the Court traces back to 1896, the Court explains that a restraint is reasonable if it 1) is no greater than is required to protect a legitimate business interest of the employer, 2) does not impose undue hardship on the employee, and 3) does not injure the public.Because lower courts have had the most trouble with the first prong - whether the employer has a legitimate business interest… [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 4:44 pm by Kyle Graham
Or this, from Thayer’s 1896–97 examination (with my apologies for the incorporated language, which was, of course, a product of the time): “The State of X forbids the carrying of negroes or other colored persons and whites as passengers in the same car on any railroad in the State. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 2:38 pm by David Kopel
Ferguson was decided in 1896, the Supreme Court majority, which was willfully oblivious to contemporary social reality (e.g., if blacks consider a segregation mandate to be a “a badge of inferiority,” that is “solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it”) , was also lazily ignorant of legal history: “Laws forbidding the intermarriage of the two races may be said in a technical sense to interfere with the freedom of contact, and yet… [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 5:08 pm
" Launched in 1896, the manufacturer of the iconic chewy, chocolate candy, is also claiming that Footzyrolls, which launched in 2009, will dilute or tarnish the value of the Tootsie Roll brand. [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 7:52 am by Daniel Corbett
” Evidently, the tradition of hosting public footraces on Thanksgiving Day dates back farther than I would have guessed, with the first Turkey Trot taking place in Buffalo, New York in 1896. [read post]
20 Nov 2011, 2:49 pm by WOLFGANG DEMINO
See Akin, Gump, 299 S.W.3d at 120 (tracing the Rule's roots in Texas jurisprudence to 1896). [read post]
19 Nov 2011, 4:26 pm by Lawrence Solum
Here is a description: Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. [read post]
18 Nov 2011, 12:18 pm by admin
The Penn State hysteria has unearthed the story of yet another predatory coach. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 5:15 pm by Collection Development Librarian
  BUFVC hosts, curates and delivers 9 substantial online databases relating to film, television and radio content dating from 1896 onwards. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 2:47 pm by Daniel Richardson
Mather, 68 Vt. 338 (1896) (boatable waters); Aitken v. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 12:59 pm by Ilya Somin
Perhaps in the future he will be equally forthcoming about his own similar mistakes.UPDATE: As commenter “Steve” points out, I was wrong to suggest in my article that the Court did not mention the Public Use Clause of the Fifth Amendment in the 1896 case of Fallbrook Irrigation Dist. v. [read post]