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• Lenity and Mandatory Minimums

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 431
  This is the third in a series of posts reviewing last term’s criminal cases in the Supreme Court and previewing the new term. Three of last term’s criminal cases dealt with mandatory minimum sentencing statutes, as do two of the new term’s.  The frequency with which these cases reach the Supreme Court ...
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• Constitutional View, Not Catholicism, Behind Scalia’s Opinions on Abortion

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 431
  As a Catholic whose views are in line with those of Pope Benedict XVI, US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia personally opposes abortion. But what explains his opinions in every abortion-related case that has come to the court since Scalia became a justice in 1986 is not his Catholicism but his “originalist” ...
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• We are H. Candace Gorman

  
  Corrente — Authority: 623
  Dan at Pruning Shears writes: H. Candace Gorman is “a civil rights/human rights lawyer in Chicago who is representing two Guantánamo detainees pro bono.” Here is the latest on her Kafkaesque trip through our extralegal nonjudicial system for detainees:
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• Cheap Seats Daily: Elgin Baylor Gets His Day, But Not Here?

  
  City Desk — Authority: 697
  Today is Elgin Baylor Day in Washington ! But not this Washington. Greg Hawkins , the mayor of Seattle, Wash., has officially dedicated today to Baylor. Baylor was in Seattle for a couple years of college ball. So if he gets a day named after him there, Baylor should have a day named after him in D.C., too. And a ...
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• ‘It’s’ an Issue in Story Review Instigated by Justice Kennedy’s Office

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 532
  A new staffer who works for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy demanded the right to review quotations by student publications at two schools, it turns out. The review of a story about an Oct. 15 George Washington University speech resulted in a request to change the contraction "its" to "it is," according to a student ...
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• ‘It’s’ an Issue in Story Review Instigated by Justice Kennedy’s Office

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 532
  A new staffer who works for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy demanded the right to review quotations by student publications at two schools, it turns out. The review of a story about an Oct. 15 George Washington University speech resulted in a request to change the contraction "its" to "it is," according to a student ...
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• ABA GUIDELINES DO NOT DETERMINE WHETHER DEFENSE COUNSEL IS EFFECTIVE

  
  Ciciliano Law Blog — Authority: 110
  The United States Supreme Court has held that an attorney is not necessarily ineffective even if his performance falls below the standards set by the ABA guidelines. In Bobby v. Van Hook, the Court held that a Defendants post-conviction petition should be denied and that trial counsel had been effective. In ...
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• Pastor James Manning, Obama thugs, CIA, November 16, 2009, First Amendment, Obama illegal alien, Atlah church, Tea parties, Obama Birth Certificate, Obama not qualified, Bible prophecy

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 583
  Pastor James Manning has stated that he was visited by the CIA, Homeland Security and NY city detectives  because he has spoken out against Barack Obama and called Obama an illegal alien. Obama may indeed be an illegal alien. In the absence of proof from Obama, he is not a natural born citizen and is ...
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• New research by University of Miami law professor analyzes issues in immigration law

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 643
  CORAL GABLES, FL (November 17, 2009) -- University of Miami Law Professor Rebecca A.
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• Tuesday’s briefly religious

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 490
  That much-promoted hate crime ralley in front of the U.S. Department of Justice was a bust, but not busted as organizers seemed to hope they would be.ACORN support and its end was the topic of a US Conference of Catholic Bishops report. Their Campaign for Human Development is under right-wing fire again this ...
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• Ambiguity Is Ambiguous

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 431
  In an earlier post , I offered some preliminary thoughts about the Supreme Court’s six criminal statutory interpretation cases last term.  I observed that Justice Scalia’s textualist approach now seems dominant on the Court.  The six opinions thus reflect a great deal of effort to parse the texts of the ...
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• U.S. Supreme Court jumps in bed with the Miami fascists

  
  Cuba Journal — Authority: 427
  Christian Science Monitor November 16, 2009 School board members in Miami have won their battle to remove a childrens book from the shelves of Miami-Dade school libraries because they said the book presented an inaccurate picture of life in Cuba. On Monday, the US Supreme Court declined to take up the case of ...
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• Kerchner V Obama, Appeal, November 14, 2009, Update, Charles Kerchner, Mario Apuzzo, U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, Philadelphia PA, Obama not natural born citizen

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 583
  Just in from Charles Kerchner, lead plantiff in Kerchner V Obama, Congress, November 14, 2009. “The Kerchner v Obama & Congress lawsuit has been appealed and is now formally Docketed by the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia PA as docket number 09-4209. Copy available via this link.” ...
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• Feingold: Sept. 11 Prosecutions Will Advance Justice and American World Standing

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 431
  The decision to prosecute five people accused of involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in federal court in New York drew support Friday from US Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) in comments at a one-hour discussion at Marquette University Law School. “That’s the way to go,” said Feingold, who has been ...
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• Do the Justices Play Nicely Together?

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 431
  For the second autumn in a row, the federal public defenders here in Milwaukee were kind enough to invite me to speak on the U.S. Supreme Court’s criminal docket, reviewing last term’s cases and previewing the new term.  The event is a great opportunity for me to think about patterns and themes that cut across ...
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• Revised Prison Plan Goes to Federal Court

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 160
  Original Author:  Brian Leubitz Last we heard from the prison situation, the three judge panel had told the state to do better than their plan to reduce the population by 27,000.  Yesterday, the administration presented a plan to release the 40,000+ that the court had ordered, ...
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• SCOTUS Fantasy League Debuts

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 431
  Hey, Supreme Court buffs, think you can handicap the high court’s cases better than you can Packers games?  If so, you might want to join the Premier Supreme Court Fantasy League .  As detailed in this post on the WSJ Law Blog , participants gets points for accurately predicting not only the bottom-line outcome ...
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• Justice Sonia Sotomayor loves our country and a good manicure

  
  Polichicks Online — Authority: 121
    Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is on the cover of the December issue of Latina (on stands November 17).   She strikes a patriotic pose with her hand over her heart. (Note her fab brick red nail polish.) Latina is honoring Justice Sotomayor as the Woman of the Decade.    
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• Why It Is So Important to Have Women On the Supreme Court

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 142
  Well, there are a lot of reasons we should have more women on the U.S. Supreme Court, but I was recently struck by the difference in questioning by the two women and the seven male justices deciding whether it was okay to lock up juvenile offenders for life without parole -- even when they dont kill anybody. The ...
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• Quote of the Day: Supremes Reconsider Life Sentences for Juvie Thugs

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 628
  By Debbie SchlusselLast month, I published a column on, Sullivan v. Florida and Graham v. Florida, two cases the U.S. Supreme Court is considering, which challenge life sentences in prison for juveniles, claiming they are cruel and unusual punishment.  There are 110 juvenile convicts, nationwide, who are serving life ...
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