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Before Big Show decided to use the SCOTUS decision in Louisiana v. Kennedy as cover for the Federalist Society talking points, I found myself considering the “punishment” that the Court found appropriate on for an individual defendant and a corporate one. If you’re going to allow capital punishment at all, the rape of a child seems [...] So I’ve just finished reading Scalia’s opinion in D.C. v. Heller (my apologies to my current employer), and I think my punt analysis was close to the mark. Yes, the D.C. gun ban went the way of the buffalo, based on a sophisticated analysis of the role of guns in society. The decision states that the [...] I know that Dr. Bombay is working on a piece about the Court’s ruling in the child rape death penalty case, Kennedy v. Louisiana, which you can read here, but I wanted to get out ahead of him before his communist propaganda saps and impurifies all of our precious bodily fluids. (Ed Note: bodily fluids [...] So tomorrow, the Supreme Court is expected to issue its findings in D.C. v. Heller, the first substantive review of Second Amendment rights in over 70 years. Legal nerds that we are, we’re more than a little curious as to what the Court is going to conclude. While the decision will no doubt be endlessly [...] So, the New York Time reports that in order to prove what the “community standards” are regarding obscenity in Pensacola, FL, a lawyer representing a porn website operator offered as evidence the fact that Google Trends shows that residents in the area search the web for “orgy” more than they do for “apple pie.” And [...] I read this Article in Salon the other day, which related the story of Jean Brochu. Mr. Brochu, an attorney in Quebec, is a recovering gambling addict, and the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Loto-Quebec, the province’s gaming authority. His contention is that they bear culpability for his addiction because they employed [...] I’m a full-time PR guy and moonlight as a law student. So, I was intrigued to read the latest in a series of posts at Above the Law looking at alternative careers for attorneys: public relations. David Lat quotes an e-mailer who writes about PR: While I have nothing quite as clever as Manager of Legal [...] |
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