Tuesday, November 10, 2015

GUEST POST BY DORE LOUIS ON SILA LUIS v. U.S.

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"You’re not looking for CJA rates are you?" --Chief Justice Roberts to Howard Srebnick when the CJ was asking how a district cou...
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How does Chief Justice Roberts assign opinion writing

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Adam Liptak has this pretty interesting article about a study done by Professor Richard Lazarus: Chief Justice Roberts made certain that...
Monday, November 09, 2015

When should judges retire?

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Here's a lengthy AP article about how the 9th Circuit is addressing senility and other such problems among aging judges. From the conc...
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Friday, November 06, 2015

Scalia v. Breyer in criminal case

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And Justice Scalia is again supporting the defendant, this time in a statutory construction issue. From Slate : Tuesday’s big moment, the...
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Thursday, November 05, 2015

The Cal Ripken of the Judiciary...

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...is Gerald Tjoflat. From the Daily Report : When it comes to retirement, federal judges have a pretty good deal. Assuming they've...
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Wednesday, November 04, 2015

"How would you feel if your 10-year prison sentence depended on a dangling modifier?"

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That's the question asked by Professor Noah Feldman in this piece : That's the situation for Avondale Lockhart, whose case was hea...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Baby steps

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The Tampa Tribune has this nice piece about some of the relief people are getting from Obama's new drug laws.  Here's one story: ...
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Monday, November 02, 2015

How do we stop racial discrimination in jury selection?

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The Batson process certainly doesn't work...  SCOTUS will take up the issue this morning.   From USA Today : The original jury pool ...
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