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Jarndyce redux Archives - Overlawyered
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Posts Tagged ‘Jarndyce redux’. 8220;93-year-old judge grows weary of 44-year-old housing bias case”. By then a good case is just getting warmed up, right? Sixth Circuit Senior Judge Damon Keith has been hearing the Hamtramck, Mich. litigation since his days on the U.S. District Court, and is hoping it will be over soon. [ ABA Journal. August 11, 2015. A shared-driveway neighbor war. Last month we noted. Filed under: Jarndyce redux. June 11, 2015. And it only took 11 years [ WSJ. February 28, 2015. On the...
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8220;93-year-old judge grows weary of 44-year-old housing bias case”. By then a good case is just getting warmed up, right? Sixth Circuit Senior Judge Damon Keith has been hearing the Hamtramck, Mich. litigation since his days on the U.S. District Court, and is hoping it will be over soon. [ ABA Journal. August 11, 2015. Charles Dickens showed this scenario in Bleak House. The case was Jarndyce and Jarndyce which dragged on for generations. Https:/ books.google.com/books? August 11, 2015. August 11, 2015.
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The heavy federal hand on campus - Overlawyered
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The heavy federal hand on campus. Complying with federal regulations costs Vanderbilt University $146 million a year, 11% of its overall expenses, the university estimates [ Vanderbilt press release. Via Prof. Bainbridge]. Filed under: colleges and universities. Regulation and its reform. August 10, 2015. How much do they receive in benefits? 146 million dollars sounds like alot, but if they receive 100 billion dollars of federal government money, it may not be. August 10, 2015. Some of the compliance co...
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"Stop calling it fair housing..." - Overlawyered
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8220;Stop calling it fair housing…”. 8230;There’s nothing fair about it. I’ve got a post at Cato. True, Kennedy did throw a sop or two about how courts applying disparate impact need to avoid pressuring actors toward the potentially unconstitutional result of quotas. Although some consider these bits of wording significant. Some further background on Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project: SCOTUSBlog. Filed under: Clarence Thomas. June 26, 2015. The reasoning i...
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Crime and punishment roundup - Overlawyered
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Crime and punishment roundup. 8220;Regulatory Crimes and the Mistake of Law Defense” [ Paul Larkin, Heritage. Victims of sex offender registry laws, cont’d [ Lenore Skenazy. James Forman, Jr.: case against mass incarceration can stand on its own without flawed Jim Crow analogy [ Boston Review. And NY.U. Law Review. 8220;For-profit immigration jails, where the inmates — convicted of nothing — work for less than peanuts.” [ @dangillmor. On Los Angeles Times. 8221; [ Marshall Project. Who was also profiled.
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Posts Tagged ‘crime and punishment’. Crime and punishment roundup. Quebec waiter arrested after seafood puts allergic customer in coma [ CBC. Two Black Lives Matter groupings have issued agendas, one zany leftism, the other directed at nuts-and-bolts criminal justice system reform. Media: “Door 1, please.” [ Ed Krayewski. Conservative lawprof Mike Rappaport on DEA’s “absurd,” “ridiculous” refusal to take marijuana off Schedule I [ Law and Liberty. On State Farm case before Supreme Court]. August 30, 2016.
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Last year's (and next's) Supreme Court term - Overlawyered
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Last year’s (and next’s) Supreme Court term. Me and Trevor Burrus about some of the term’s lower-profile Supreme Court cases, including Abercrombie & Fitch. Religious accommodation), disparate impact housing. Whether the Sarbanes-Oxley financial accounting law forbids destroying fish), Horne (raisin takings), three-strikes sentencing and (Trevor) the Texas confederate flag license plate case. We also preview next term’s important Friedrich v. California Teachers Association case. August 10, 2015.
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8220;The always fascinating Overlawyered.com” — Dave Barry. 8220;Peerless scrutiny of legal insanity” — Andrew Sullivan. 8220;Entertaining and often startling” — Jonathan Rauch, National Journal. 8220;KF role model Walter Olson” — Mickey Kaus. 8220;Reports brightly on the amazing excesses of the litigious society” — John Leo, U.S. News. 8220;Favorite” — The Weekly Standard, WSJ Opinion Journal, Arts and Letters Daily, etc. 8220;Always indispensable” — Michelle Malkin. 8220;Rarely do I see eye-to-eye with...
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SCOTUS: fish not "documents" or "records" under Dodd-Frank - Overlawyered
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SCOTUS: fish not “documents” or “records” under Dodd-Frank. Link fixed now] on the Supreme Court’s ruling this morning in Yates v. United States. That the Sarbanes-Oxley accounting law’s prohibition on evasive destruction of “tangible objects” cannot be used to prosecute a fisherman who discarded undersized grouper in hopes of avoiding enforcement. How does one make a false entry on a fish? February 25, 2015. Incorrect link for the Ilya Shapiro comment. February 25, 2015. Sorry, fixed now, thanks. On ...
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Supreme Court rules for Abercrombie hijab claimant - Overlawyered
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Supreme Court rules for Abercrombie hijab claimant. I’ve got a new post up at Cato. About the Supreme Court’s decision in EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores Inc. PS More coverage: Daniel Fisher. And when might a National Review author favor limiting private employers’ liberty? When it’s a religious discrimination case. Sued if you do. June 2, 2015. Like Us On Facebook. The Rule of Lawyers. 8220;It’s what I do”: professional TCPA plaintiff had 35 cellphones. Teen shot by friend, survivors sue government.
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