SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 20, 2021
In a speech at Harvard Law School in 2015, Justice Elena Kagan told the audience that “we’re all textualists now” – that is, that any effort to interpret a statute begins (and often ends) with the language of the statute. Kannon Shanmugam argues for BP and other fossil fuel companies (Art Lien).
The Crime Report
JUNE 16, 2022
jurisprudence, according to a forthcoming Legal Studies Research Paper published under the auspices of George Washington University Law School. Howrey Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, state statutes vary widely on defining what constitutes aggression.
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SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2022
Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Dobbs v. Sherif Girgis is an associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. And to what will it bind lower courts? Jackson Women’s Health Organization. How does Dobbs ’s historical analysis fare against the dissent?
Patently O
AUGUST 9, 2022
The patentee in the case argues that inherency is too strict a standard and that it goes beyond what is required by the statute and prior precedent. I label the substantive amicus as the “GMU brief” because all-but-one signing professor have ongoing ties to George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
The trial penalty that coaxes both the guilty and innocent to enter pleas is exacerbated by mandatory minimum statutes, which trigger automatic penalties if invoked by the prosecutor, as well as sentencing enhancements within the discretion of the prosecutor, such as whether to file notice with the court of a prior offense.
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 20, 2021
“American citizens lack the ability to make even the most cursory inquiry into whether their prosecutors operate within the rules,” the report asserted. million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania. Adopt American Bar Association Rules for Defining Prosecutorial Misconduct.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 3, 2022
The bankruptcy court thought Kate’s situation should be different, because she lacked any “actual knowledge” of the deficiencies in the disclosure statement. Because Buckley’s claim did not involve money obtained by her fraud, the bankruptcy court ruled that Kate could discharge that claim.
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