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Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent For my earlier post on the incident, see here; three follow-ups: [1.] Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley Law)—one of the most prominent liberal constitutional law scholars in the country—and Chancellor Howard Gillman (UC Irvine) had a Washington Post op-ed, "Free speech doesn't mean hecklers get to shut down c...

Guns stand for sale at a gun show on November 24, 2018 in Naples, Florida. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — In an appeals court hearing on Thursday, lawyers for the NRA argued Florida’s gun law raising the minimum age to purchase firearms to 21 is unconstitutional. The law was passed weeks after the Parkland shooting massacre that killed 17 people, including 14 stude...

Senate Judiciary Committee members Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) rode roughshod over the record of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in weeklong confirmation hearings to assess whether the full Senate should advise and consent to her momentous nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would replace the retiring liberal Justice...

Labor law is not at the heart of the French presidential campaign, which is rather unusual. The latest major reforms, initiated under the presidency of François Hollande and then extended by the “Marcon” ordinances of September 22, 2017, seem to lead to an exhaustion of legislative inflation in this area. The overhaul of the organization of social dialogue, collective bargaining and the predi...

The final game of the high school girls’ basketball season, involving an Island squad, will take place Saturday when Staten Island Academy faces Brooklyn Law and Tech in the substitute Federation state event at noon at Long Island Lutheran . The Tigers are the lone Island team in the event and will compete in the Class A division. Unlike the true Federation event -- which brings teams from th...

In this file photo, a judges gavel rests on a table. A Cook County judge Thursday questioned why a convicted felon’s good behavior in prison should be “rewarded” by reducing his sentence — particularly when he’s already expected to be released next year — and whether it would even be constitutional for a judge to do so. Judge Stanley Sacks appeared skeptical on both points as prosecutors aske...

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Willie Nelson performs live on stage at the Luck Reunion on March 17, 2022 in Luck, Texas. Even country music legend Willie Nelson encountered challenges while voting by mail in the March 1 primary this year under a controversial new voting law in Texas. The musician's wife, Annie D'Angelo-Nelson, told the Austin American-Statesman that she and Nelson had thei...

A general view of the WINGAS gas storage facility near the northern German town of Rehden January 7, 2009. REUTERS/Christian Charisius BERLIN, March 25 (Reuters) - The Bundestag lower house on Friday approved legislation requiring Germany's privately-operated gas storage facilities to be full at the start of the next winter, to try to avert shortages in the event of a halt in Russian gas impo...

WILMINGTON — The family of a man who died in law enforcement custody in 2019 is suing 11 Clinton County and City of Wilmington agencies and departments, among others, and 37 individuals associated with those entities — for a total of $27 million — alleging his death was caused by law enforcement and that the incident and investigations were “whitewashed.” Many of those sued have filed motions...

Currently, not many law school students dream about joining a law firm’s captive alternative legal service provider (ALSP). However, the allure of the law firm partnership track is slightly waning as associates search for another alternative to the traditional law firm model. For some, exposure to the firm’s subsidiary offers the right amount of connection to an established firm without the w...