New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
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Dec, 2012
The Cockle Bur Blog
Legal minds on legal matters and whatever else strikes our fancy.
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Dec, 2012
Saving Lives: The Post-Prison Education Project
Want to change a life? Make the community safer? Save taxpayer dollars? Incarcerating someone for one year costs around $35,000--as I wrote about yesterday in The Atlantic.com--it's the equivalent of a year's college tuition. It also leads to more crime in the long run as the national recidivism rate for returning prisoners hovers around 66%. [...]
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Dec, 2012
New Merits Briefs Filed by Cockle Printing
Brief for Respondents in Delia v. E.M.A., No. 12-98, filed on December 10, 2012 Brief for the Petitioner in McQuiggin v. Perkins, No. 12-126, filed on December 13, 2012
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Dec, 2012
New Merits Briefs Filed by Cockle Printing
New Merits Briefs Filed by Cockle Printing
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Dec, 2012
New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
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Dec, 2012
When is a desert a “water of the United States”?
When the government says so.
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Dec, 2012
Will the courts enforce the Origination Clause against Obamacare?
The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto writes that Pacific Legal Foundation's challenge to Obamacare is unlikely to succeed. Assuming that Obamacare’s monetary exaction for not buying insurance is a tax, as the Supreme Court called it in its June opinion, still not all taxes are “bills for raising revenue,” which the Constitution requires to be generated by the [...]
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Nov, 2012
New Merits Brief Filed by Cockle Printing
Petitioner’s Brief on the Merits in Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Mgmt. Dist., No. 11-1447, filed on November 21, 2012
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Nov, 2012
My Post At Above The Law About The Similarities Between BigLaw And Jailhouse Law
I forgot to post my humorous, but surprisingly true attempt to compare jailhouse lawyering to working as an associate at a Biglaw firm. The post is over at Above the Law (you can read the post here). I had always wanted to write something for Above the Law because I think they provide a valuable service to [...]
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Nov, 2012
New Merits Brief Filed by Cockle Printing
New Merits Brief Filed by Cockle Printing