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• Amici Curiae: Googling the Law, Algorithmic Cotton Gins and The State-Always-Wins Edition

  
  The Court — Authority: 493
  NY Trials 9/11 for Plotters Still A “State-Always-Wins” System U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 defendants will be tried before civilian courts in New York, the city that The Christian Science Monitor calls the “terror trial capital of the US.” ...
  1 week ago

• Amici Curaie: Ornery Originalism, Judicial Branding, and Autistic Juror Furor Edition

  
  The Court — Authority: 493
  Iacobucci on Historical Redress “If anything is to be done with the Indian, we must catch him very young,” wrote N.F. Davin in an 1879 report commissioned by the Canadian federal government with the end of emulating the system of American Industrial Schools for natives. Unfortunately, the Canadian government ...
  2 weeks ago

• Amici Curiae: Ornery Originalism, Judicial Branding, and Autistic Juror Furor Edition

  
  The Court — Authority: 493
  Iacobucci on Historical Redress “If anything is to be done with the Indian, we must catch him very young,” wrote N.F. Davin in an 1879 report commissioned by the Canadian federal government with the end of emulating the system of American Industrial Schools for natives. Unfortunately, the Canadian government ...
  2 weeks ago

• Amici Curaie: Rendition Conviction, Carceral Tendencies and Galatic Legalese Edition

  
  The Court — Authority: 493
  Italian Judge Convicts CIA Officers in Rendition Trial Judge Oscar Magi of Court of Milan on Wednesday convicted 22 former CIA agents and a U.S. Air Force colonel on kidnapping charges for the 2003 “extraordinary rendition” of terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Jurist reports that the nearly ...
  3 weeks ago

• Power to Veto Doesnt Equal Power to Pick Under PSLRA, Ninth Circuit Says

  
  Blawgletter — Authority: 128
    The case involved NVIDIA stock, which didnt do too well. The Ninth Circuit chided a district court today for usurping a right that the panel held belongs to the "lead plaintiff" in cases under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 -- the right to choose counsel for the putative class. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Amici Curiae: Badgering Counsel, Judicial References and Simian Abolitionism Edition

  
  The Court — Authority: 493
  Supremes Drawn into Securities Fight The federal government recently pulled the Supreme Court into the middle of its spat with the provinces over whether Ottawa has the power to create a national securities regulator. “In the best courtroom manner, the Harper Conservatives are taking care to ask a question to ...
  4 weeks ago

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