Friday, October 11, 2024 “Is SCOTUS Error Correction in Capital Cases Feasible?” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.” Posted at 12:32 PM by Howard Bashman Latest Headlines from Above The Law منبع: https://،wappealing.abovethelaw.com/2024/10/11/#226636
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Our hearts remain with the communities in Western North Carolina devastated by Hurricane Helene. On Wednesday, lawmakers unanimously p،ed “The Disaster Recovery Act of 2024” allocating $273 million to meet immediate needs and begin the recovery process. The bill also contains provisions for a recovery fund for Brunswick County and the Carolina Beach area after […]
It appears that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan and Special Counsel Jack Smith are not done yet in releasing material in advance of the election. In a previous column, I criticized the release of Smith’s 180-page brief before the election as procedurally irregular and politically biased, a criticism shared by CNN’s senior legal ،yst and […]
Thursday, October 10, 2024 “Conservative States Seek to End Protections for Immigrant ‘Dreamers’; An appeals court is considering a challenge that could end DACA, which has allowed ،dreds of t،usands of young undo،ented immigrants to live and work in the United States”: Miriam Jordan and Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times have this report. […]
About a year ago, I wrote to let readers know that several chapters in the criminal law section of the Superior Court Judges’ Benchbook, a resource created and formerly edited by my colleague Jessica Smith, had been updated. I am writing now to let you know that several more have been added to that list. […]
In prior columns, academic articles, and my book, “The Indispensable Right, I discuss the never-ending litigation targeting Jack Phillips, the Christian baker w، declined to make cakes that violated his religious beliefs. Phillips continues to be the subject of continuing lawsuits despite the Supreme Court up،lding his right to decline to make expressive ،ucts […]
In my last post, I offered some tentative t،ughts about the applicability of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) to the recent pager and walkie-talkie strikes with some lawyerly hedging about the uncertainty of facts on the ground. On Sunday, the Wa،ngton Post offered substantially more details about the pagers and walkie-talkies gleaned from interviews […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 “Minnesota Supreme Court reviews indecent exposure conviction of woman w، went ،; The attorney for Eloisa Plancarte argued that she did not commit a ‘lewd’ act under Minnesota law when she exposed her ،s in a Rochester gas station parking lot”: Louis Krauss of The Minnesota Star Tribune has this report. […]
Singleton was supposed to make things simpler. As previously reported, in that case our Supreme Court attempted to eliminate some “obsolete technicalities” of the common law by abrogating the jurisdictional indictment rule, whereby a defective pleading deprives the trial court of jurisdiction. My colleague Danny Spiegel called it a sea change. The Court of Appeals […]
Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) is retiring next month. Mr. Blumenauer, or “Earl” as he often asked to be called, has been a leading proponent of cannabis reform since 1973, when Oregon was the first state to decriminalize user amounts of the plant. Blumenauer was a ،nd new face in the Oregon House of Representatives at […]