How Appealing
May 25, 6:31 PM PDT
Law professor Charles J. Reid Jr. has posted this article online at SSRN (via " Legal Theory Blog "). The article's abstract begins, "Edward Douglass White, who served both as an Associate Justice and as Chief Justice of the United States during his long tenure on the Supreme Court...
THR, Esq.
May 24, 10:01 PM PDT
Kathy Valentine alleges the other members of the iconic girl band are attempting to reduce her share in the group. read more
Althouse
May 25, 3:41 PM PDT
"Mr. Lemon’s lawsuit challenged a 1968 Pennsylvania law that reimbursed religious schools for some expenses, including teachers’ salaries and textbooks, so long as they related to instruction on secular subjects also taught in the public schools." Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, writing for...
Concurring Opinions
May 25, 3:20 PM PDT
I was invited to stay around another month but a personal loss and the press of grading papers overwhelmed me. With apologies to the list organizers, this is my first and last post for this month. President Obama’s commencement speech at Morehouse College on May 19th triggered a...
Lowering the Bar
May 25, 12:34 PM PDT
No ruling yet in the case of John Brennan, not the drone-loving CIA director but the heroic anti-TSA protester who stripped naked at Portland International Airport last year. A judge dismissed criminal charges against Brennan on First Amendment grounds but...
