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Analysis: Must Senate seat Burris?

Jason Harrow
January 01, 2009 01:50

NOTE TO READERS: This post is another in a series exploring the meaning and scope of prior Supreme Court rulings — here, the June 16, 1969, decision in Powell v. McCormack (395 U.S. 486). Analysis Twice in recent days, the Democrats in the U.S. Senate have said, with unqualified confidence, ...

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December 31, 2008 23:20

As 2008 comes to a close, we want to wish our readers best wishes for the New Year. Thank you for your interest in what we have to say and you willingness to continue as readers.  All the best!       

Chief Justice: Judges want equal treatment

Jason Harrow
December 31, 2008 23:03

Praising the federal courts for doing their work with only a “tiny share of the federal budget,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., protested on Wednesday that Congress has awarded its own members and “every other federal employee” a cost-of-living pay raise this year...

After Bilski - what about mental process claims that include a known, non-mental step?

December 31, 2008 20:50

One paragraph opinions from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit are, generally speaking, not all that interesting. The court’s opinion in Classen Immunotherapies v. Biogen IDEC, decided the week before Christmas, breaks this general rule, though.  The one paragraph opinion is ...

Newspeak of the Day

Mark Bennett
December 31, 2008 20:20

I went to visit a client at the “IAH Adult Detention Facility” (which I thought was a private jail) in Livingston, Texas today and was greeted by a sign at the front desk with a globe logo and the legend, “Community Education Centers”: Apparently my client isn’t...