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I've been hesitant in posting entries on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the media's coverage has been both numbing and overwhelming.   However, I read sev...

David Cohen is a professor at Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law. On one level, explaining the result of McDonald v. City of Chicago is easy:  in a five-four deci...

A major study of judicial elections released today reports that campaign spending in judicial elections doubled over the past decade and that “judicial elections are inc...

We have updated our sister site, SCOTUSwiki, to include a number of new filings in OT10 cases.  New amicus briefs in support of the petitioners have been added to the cas...

As Travelers takes AIG’s spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, or rather...

 July is probably my favorite month of the year for many...

As noted in this earlier post, this morning the Supreme Court granted cert in Pepper v. United States (docket here), which will call for a review of this Eighth Circuit o...

Ross Douthat gets the ball rolling:

The title of this post is the title of this terrific and provocative new article by Laura Appleman now appearing in the Summer 2010 issue of the Indiana Law Journal. Here...

I've avoided before now discussing a terrible incident in Dallas which occurred last week, where the son of Dallas' brand-spanking new police chief, David Brown, shot and...