The Championship Round of the OT 2019 Harlan Institute-ConSource Virtual Supreme Court Competition
Thank you to Judges Costa and Willett and Justice Guzman. Congratulations to Curtis Herbert and Hayat Muse of Minnesota!
Thank you to Judges Costa and Willett and Justice Guzman. Congratulations to Curtis Herbert and Hayat Muse of Minnesota!
What could happen—and what to do about it—if you get pulled over by the cops
An interesting take from an expert on race and medicine.
At this point, police can hardly be surprised when they are mistaken for armed criminals.
Louisville Metro Police Department said officers identified themselves in a no-knock raid. Neighbors said that's not true.
Botanical accuracy, puppycide, and accusations of impropriety.
Plus: The House of Representatives goes virtual, Americans start moving around again, and more...
Our new paper on circuit court judges’ citation practices produces surprising results.
Are they “subordinate state officers”? Do they perform a “federal function”? Do they hold a “Public Trust under the United States”?
The book and mini-series imagine Pres. Charles Linbergh dispersing Jews to the hinterlands, but FDR was the one who actually favored that.
An effort by Sen. Rand Paul to forbid warrantless investigation of citizens was soundly defeated.
In "Operation Asian Touch," federal agents coerced suspected human-trafficking victims into sex acts. Local cops seized money and threw them in jail.
Is there statutory jurisdiction in California v. Texas?
On the possible risks of contagion, and why Evangelicals sue.
This "victimless" crime is a curious one for close judicial scrutiny of a Government motion to dismiss--closer scrutiny should be reserved for cases in which crime victims have a clear interest.
Too often, minor drug crimes turn into mandatory minimum offenses with lengthy sentences despite the fact these types of cases rarely involve drug dealing to minors.
Justice Breyer and Gorsuch were annoyed by this "manufactured litigation."
What about Ableman v. Booth (1858)?
The amendment lost by one vote. Absent from today's vote? Sen. Bernie Sanders.
How would Universities actually take steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19?
I hope the Supreme Court takes these recommendations seriously.
in a hypothetical question posed by Justice Thomas.
A guest post from Professor James Phillips
This week the justices are considering 13 petitions involving the pernicious doctrine of qualified immunity.
A Connecticut federal prison's failures to grant early release to eligible inmates "amount to deliberate indifference" under the Eighth Amendment, the judge says.
The first major affirmative action case went down in history as a case about "reverse discrimination" favoring blacks, but the underlying facts were more complicated.
Douglas Letter's refusal to provide a limiting principle may have been deliberate.
The LAPD released body camera footage of Frank Hernandez's use-of-force incident.
So held a federal district court in Kentucky, in an epidemic-related lawsuit.
They even sent an ambulance, because it's not like there's anything else going on in New York.
The congressional co-sponsors of the Crime Victims' Rights Act (Senator Feinstein and former Senators Kyl and Hatch) and the National Crime Victim's Law Institute both file amicus briefs supporting rehearing en banc.
Congress expanded compassionate release to allow inmates to petition judges, but federal prosecutors tried to use plea bargain agreements to subvert reforms, the judge says.
No, such individuals are pledged to violate university policy, civil rights laws, and academic freedom.