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Commentary Same-Sex Marriage, Heightened Scrutiny and the Problem of "Animus"
Same-Sex Marriage, Heightened Scrutiny and the Problem of "Animus"
Eric Berger
March 21, 2015 04:43:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric Berger, of the University of Nebraska College of Law, considers whether the US Supreme Court is ready to finally invalidate bans on same-sex marriages on the national scale and tries to predict what issues the US...

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Commentary Anti-Sharia Laws: A Solution in Search of a Problem
Anti-Sharia Laws: A Solution in Search of a Problem
Steven D. Schwinn
March 18, 2015 04:20:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Steven Schwinn, of The John Marshall Law School, discusses the growing problem in states to ban the use of foreign and international law...There is a growing trend in the states to ban the use of foreign and...

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Commentary Is the Nebraska/Oklahoma Pot Suit Preempted?
Is the Nebraska/Oklahoma Pot Suit Preempted?
W. David Ball
March 17, 2015 04:30:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist W. David Ball of Santa Clara Law, discusses the legal framework behind the Nebraska and Oklahoma law suit against Colorado to invalidate Colorado's marijuana law...In December 2014, Oklahoma and Nebraska took the unusual step of filing a...

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Commentary IAEA, Iran and the Joint Plan of Action: A Toast to Genuine Diplomacy or Survival of the (Politically) Fittest
IAEA, Iran and the Joint Plan of Action: A Toast to Genuine Diplomacy or Survival of the (Politically) Fittest
Saroj Nair
March 14, 2015 07:04:35 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Saroj Nair, LLM Student at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, discusses Iran's international obligation with regards to its nuclear efforts and argues that Iran complies with its obligation under binding treaties and the Joint...

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Commentary Another Perspective On King v. Burwell
Another Perspective On King v. Burwell
Timothy Jost
March 14, 2015 04:16:22 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Timothy Jost of Washington and Lee University School of Law discusses how interpreting the ACA in King v. Burwell affect Medicaid and CHIP recipients ... An important issue flagged in the March 4 Supreme Court oral argument...

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Commentary University of Oklahoma Expels the First Amendment
University of Oklahoma Expels the First Amendment
Howard Wasserman
March 14, 2015 11:33:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Howard M. Wasserman, of Florida International University College of Law, discusses the First Amendment and the University of Oklahoma's decision to expel fraternity members that used racially insensitive language ... The First Amendment, Justice Holmes wrote in...

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Commentary Changing Venue in the Marathon Bomber Case
Changing Venue in the Marathon Bomber Case
Andrew Leipold
March 12, 2015 03:00:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Andrew D. Leipold of the University of Illinois College of Law, discusses the First Circuit's decision not to change venue in the Boston Marathon bombing trial...The claim that a local jury can't be unbiased in a case...

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Commentary Same-Sex Marriage: From Legal Uncertainty to Legal Chaos
Same-Sex Marriage: From Legal Uncertainty to Legal Chaos
Mary Margaret Penrose
March 9, 2015 07:28:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Margaret Penrose, of Texas A&M University School of Law, discusses the disarrayed nature of same-sex marriage law in the US today ... Molly Ivins, the renowned Texas satirist, once remarked, "The thing about democracy, beloveds, is...

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Commentary A Time Out for the Death Penalty
A Time Out for the Death Penalty
Brandon L. Garret
February 21, 2015 10:14:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Brandon L. Garrett, of the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses Governor Tom Wolf's death penalty moratorium ...Is declaring a "time out" to the death penalty in Pennsylvania an abuse of the governor's power "ignoring duly...

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Commentary Embassy Bomber Faces Justice; What Do These Cases Say About Terrorism Prosecution?
Embassy Bomber Faces Justice; What Do These Cases Say About Terrorism Prosecution?
Tung Yin
February 20, 2015 05:08:40 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon discusses recent terrorism trials...On August 7, 1998, al Qaeda terrorists simultaneously attacked the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania with massive truck bombs, killing a combined...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

White supremacists overthrow government in Wilmington, North Carolina

A group of white supremacists overthrew the government of Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898, killing at least dozens of Black people in the process. The city's Republican government resigned after the 500-2,000 strong white mob burned the offices of a Black-owned newspaper and terrorized black neighborhoods. The new state Democratic government passed laws in 1899 disenfranchising Black voters across North Carolina. Learn more about the 1898 Wilmington Coup.

Supreme Court limited free speech in wartime

On November 10, 1919, the US Supreme Court ruled in Abrams v. United States that the federal government could criminalize speech if it was of a type tending to bring about harmful results, in this case, resistance to the United States war effort. In a powerful dissenting opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes countered that even during wartime, free speech could only be curtailed when there was clear and "present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about."

Leonid Brezhnev dies

On November 10, 1982, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died of a heart attack. He had served as leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death. Following his death, the Soviet Union cycled through three more leaders during the 1980s until Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the country to dissolve in 1991. Read an obituary of Leonid Brezhnev from the New York Times.

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