November 14 roundup
Seeking to address widespread pharmaceutical shortages, Obama executive order downplays government role in causing them [Fair Warning, WSJ editorial, earlier here, here, here, here, etc.] “The school...
View ArticleLaw schools roundup
Universities’ prestige game: will “zombie law schools” drag down the rest? [Gerard Magliocca] Law as undergraduate degree works in advanced countries like Germany and Britain, could work here too...
View ArticleSupreme Court and constitutional law roundup
New Yorker legal correspondent Jeffrey Toobin as unreliable narrator, part 483 [Damon Root, Pejman Yousefzadeh re: attack on Justice Clarence Thomas] Background of Halliburton case: Lerach used...
View Article“Stop calling it fair housing…”
…There’s nothing fair about it. I’ve got a post at Cato about yesterday’s important Supreme Court victory for the Left in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four liberals to hold that current...
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New York Times suggests Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinions borrow too much language from briefs and lower courts. Orin Kerr on why that’s unfair; Prosecutors have too much leeway to request freeze on...
View ArticleApril 20 roundup
HBO back with “Confirmation” docudrama on the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill episode and Stuart Taylor, Jr. not greatly impressed [Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist] Another rogue Eastern District of Texas...
View ArticleNovember 2 roundup
Clarence Thomas completes a quarter century of distinguished service on the Supreme Court, not that certain journalists will ever see past their loathing [Adam White, Weekly Standard; Ann Althouse]...
View ArticleClarence Thomas questions civil asset forfeiture
The Supreme Court declined certiorari for other reasons in the case of Lisa Olivia Leonard v. Texas, but Justice Clarence Thomas in a separate concurrence took the opportunity to challenge whether the...
View ArticleNovember 29 roundup
Will it ever end? “Monkey Selfie Photographer Says He’s Now Going To Sue Wikipedia” [Mike Masnick, TechDirt, earlier] Justice Thomas argues Indian Reorganization Act is unconstitutional [Upstate...
View ArticleSupreme Court roundup
More on this to come, but Epic Systems, the workplace arbitration decision, is an epic win for contractual freedom and a big loss for the class action bar [earlier here and here] SCOTUS will revisit...
View ArticleNovember 2 roundup
Clarence Thomas completes a quarter century of distinguished service on the Supreme Court, not that certain journalists will ever see past their loathing [Adam White, Weekly Standard; Ann Althouse]...
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