Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago. This article was first published in the Huffington Post. The Supreme Court plays a central role in the American legal and political system. In recent years, it has decided profoundly important cases involving such issues as campaign finance regulation, […]
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Dropping crime generally means good policing and everything else that entails. But in the case of Texas town Sharpstown it meant firing the town police department and hiring a private security firm. Quick result: A 61 percent drop in the town’s crime rate in 20 months. That’s a result that any city or town would
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Attorney General Pam Bondi today thanked the members of the Florida House for their unanimous passage of HB 7059. The bill enhances Florida’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act and allows the Department of Legal Affairs to seek restitution for those victims who are harmed by a violation of the act. The
The Los Angeles-based IP specialists Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s recent seminar on virtual currencies indicated the digital currency is here to stay, although bitcoins may not be the cryptocurrency de jour. Gibson Dunn partner Judith Alison Lee, based in the firm’s DC office said digital currency would remain a recurring trend. Lee is also the
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Ronald Rotunda is a professor at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law and the co-author, with John Nowak, of “Treatise on Constitutional Law” (Thomson Reuters, fifth edition, 2013). He explains that it is a crime to delete even one email that has been subpoenaed. The fact that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a private server in
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The death penalty is under intense scrutiny and now retiring Attorney General Eric Holder has stepped into the fray, calling for a death penalty moratorium pending the use of a lethal injection drug in Oklahoma and being determined by the Supreme Court. The Huffington Post report that Holder was making the comments about the death
It will be the third legal challenge to Obamacare and in an article in The Economist, there are some clear explanations as to the competing issues for those arguing about Obamacare. The issue as to the principle that the law is what is stated by the words themselves rather than what politicians think it should
Many issues reach the appellate courts and many are literally life and death. But the California foie gras prohibition has now become the subject of a notice to appeal a recent district court ruling that overturned the state’s law forbidding the sale of the fatty liver that comes from the force feeding of ducks or
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