Liberating Campuses Legally
Outrage drives media sales, after all, nearly as well as does fear and possibly better than does envy. … Fortunately, the law offers a reasonable response to that which is seemingly so outrageous.
Tagged: law
SIHTAF: Manny Pacquiao Made Me Bet Wrong
The fight in the ring in Las Vegas last weekend was not nearly as tedious as the ones coming up in the courtroom are going to be.
When Text And Context Collide
Wednesday, the Supreme Court will entertain the latest challenge to Obamacare. If you can make it all the way through this post, you’re going to understand what’s going on way better than your neighbors. Added bonus: a significant detour through the jurisprudence of piscene spoliation, which you’ve no doubt all been anxiously awaiting.
SIHTAF: Pleading Prisoners’ Plasticity of Personal Piety
When an atheist prisoner self-identifies as Jewish, it provides an insight into the engine driving what Burt Likko predicts will become the next wave of litigation by the incarcerated against their jailers.
Review Of The Charges
A close look at the law and the allegations suggests that outrage about the Brandon Duncan prosecution may be based on incomplete information. Burt Likko dissects the charges and the law for your review, compares that to the advice of his colleagues, and then finishes his nightcap.
First Monday 2014
Same cast, brand new season! Burt Likko offers a look at some of the high points of the Supreme Court’s docket for the 2014-2015 Term.
Casus Contendentes (Now With Update)
Burt Likko wonders whether, despite the unmitigated human rights awfulness that is the nascent would-be state forming in northern Iraq, swallowing our idealism and adopting a strategy of economic containment wouldn’t be a more practical alternative to making war against ISIS.
UPDATE: Reaction to President Obama’s address of September 10.
Adventures In Cheerleading Litigation
…Or, a look inside one of the things that Burt Likko actually does for a living.
Non-Contractual Employment
An employment lawyer entertains a very radical idea. Except it may already be real!
Three Questions About The Bergdahl Deal Answered
Three questions, all of which have easy, obvious answers. So why are we talking about this?
A Disfavored Bench-Bar Dispute Resolution Technique
You’ve gotta fight for your right to… a speedy trial.
In My Opinion’s Wake
Burt Likko thinks that Citizens United and McCutcheon were correctly decided. But how can he square that conclusion with his recent Ordinary Court opinion?
Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part IV: Government’s Showing, Disposition
The Ordinary Court’s majority moves on to the final issue left in the case, and issues its ruling.
Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Parts II and III: Dissenting and Concurring Opinion
Tim Kowal agrees the Greens have individual standing, but suggests the corporation is the appropriate party to assert their claims.
Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part III: Justiciability of Individual Claims [Updated]
In Part III of the Ordinary Court’s treatment of the Hobby Lobby case, the Ordinary Justices’ voting pattern shifts, with dramatic results.
Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part II: Justiciability of Corporate Claims
Part II of the opinion, dealing substantively with whether Hobby Lobby can state a claim for relief under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part I: Background and Standards of Law
The first part of the Ordinary Court’s treatment of one of this year’s most-publicized legal cases. To begin, we must understand the factual and legal landscape.
All Rise! Ye Ordinary Court Is In Session
Introducing a new project by some of the lawyers and scholars writing for Ordinary Times: The Ordinary Court.
