Today, the Court ruled by a vote of 5-3 to pierce the jury deliberation veil to correct clear evidence of racial bias in jury deliberations. via Above the Law http://abovethelaw.com
Keggie Carew, Dadland(Grove Atlantic) Keggie Carew’s Dadland is a rare amalgam: It’s a memoir of the days her father Tom Carew spent as one of the dashing, daring “Jedburghs” during World War II and yes, I said memoir even though Keggie wasn’t even born during her dad’s greatest exploi
In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 16 announcement of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the 30 finalists. Clay Smith on Jane Mayer’s Dark Money We need more investigative journalism than is currently being published in America
Reversing the district judge, the D.C. Circuit's opinion in United States v. Bronstein upheld the prohibition of certain speech in the United States Supreme Court against a challenge that it was unconstitutionally vague and thus violated the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause. The statute, 40 U.S
Eminent Domain. Art work by Richard Weinstein (used with permission). In order to build his much-ballyhooed wall across the Mexican border, Donald Trump is likely to have use eminent domain to seize large amounts of private property. But as legal scholar Gerald Dickinson explains in a recent Washing
Absent mountains or rivers or some other kinds of geological formations, drawing district lines is fundamentally arbitrary. via Above the Law http://abovethelaw.com
We all know it is important for trademark holders to police their trademarks, and that is particularly true for the use of trademarks on the internet. Lawyers typically do this by sending cease and desist letters to alleged infringers. These letters are often dry and humorless and follow a standard
Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post has an interesting column highlighting public ignorance about federal spending. As she points out, a recent survey finds that only 18 percent of registered voters realize that Medicare contributes “a great deal” to the federal debt, only 17 percent say th
In its opinion in Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections, the Court clarified the standard for deciding whether racial considerations in reapportionment violate the Equal Protection Clause. It affirmed the three-judge court's decision as to one of the districts as constitutionally conside
Should the U.S. designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization? That question has once again acquired force in Washington. In recent years congressional Republicans have pushed for such a designation, but the Obama administration always stood in the way. Now, with the Trump administrat
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School I-CONnect is pleased to welcome the Admin Law Blog to the blogosphere. The blog is edited by Farrah Ahmed (Melbourne), Swati Jhaveri (NUS) and Adam Perry (Oxford). The Admin Law Blog will be online starting tomorrow–on Wednesday, March 1. Here is an ann
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is on an “ambivalent drift” into online content regulation through its contractual facilitation of a “trusted notifier” copyright enforcement program between the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the registry oper
In his well-reasoned and comprehensive 48 page opinion in Evancho v. Pine-Richland School District, Judge Mark Hornak of the Western District of Pennsylvania has issued a preliminary injunction against a school policy that limits students to facilities that "correspond to their biological sex&q
The Federal Circuit recently reversed the TTAB’s refusal to register the mark DOTBLOG, which the TTAB had found to be descriptive for Internet blog search services. On the trademark distinctiveness spectrum, a mark is descriptive if it “immediately conveys knowledge of a quality, feature, functi
The Supreme Court argued Monday that social networking websites have become such an important source of information, including President Trump’s daily tweets, that even sex offenders should not be barred from social media. Displaying their familiarity during oral arguments with such platforms as F
Mark the date: Feb. 27, 2017, may go down in history as the day that social media—from Facebook to Snapchat, Twitter to LinkedIn—entered the pantheon of expressions deserving First Amendment protection. During a lively oral argument, U.S. Supreme Court justices discussed social media with the sa
Parties involved in the Syrian conflict committed war crimes against civilians as they fought for control of Aleppo between July and December 2016, according to a report [text, in Spanish] released by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic [official websit
Mugambi Jouet spoke at the UC Davis School of Law about “American exceptionalism” and human rights on a symposium panel titled “Using U.S. Domestic Liability as a Means for Accountability of International Human Rights Violations. via Press – Stanford Law School http://ift.tt/1PUZLPp
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