New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
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Sep, 2012
The Cockle Bur Blog
Legal minds on legal matters and whatever else strikes our fancy.
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Sep, 2012
Six Certiorari Grants, Three Printed by Cockle
Six Certiorari Grants, Three Printed by Cockle
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Sep, 2012
Six Certiorari Grants, Three Printed by Cockle
Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued its order granting writs on six petitions considered by the Court during yesterday’s end-of-summer long conference. Cockle Legal Briefs printed three of those petitions. You can read the petitions in Missouri v. McNeely, No. 11-1425, and Maracich v. Spears, No. 12-25. Congratulations to our customers, and thank you for [...]
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Sep, 2012
Judge Posner Allows Defense Attorney To Testify Against His Client
Judge Posner has been in the news a lot lately (reviewing tearing apart Justice Scalia's new book here). He is normally known for being a pragmatic judge, which is why his recent opinion is so bizarre. In United States v. Williams, Judge Posner's pragmatism was instead replaced with a cavalier attitude towards the right to counsel and towards [...]
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Sep, 2012
New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
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Sep, 2012
LAW MAN Comes to the Supreme Court Community
I have just the best friends. Last week, a few friends hosted a LAW MAN book party for me at WilmerHale in Washington DC. The event was hosted by WilmerHale Attorneys Seth Waxman and Noah Levine, UW Law Professor (and my ConLaw teacher) Ronald Collins, Davis & Wright Attorney Robert Corn-Revere, and my good [...]
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Sep, 2012
Pre-Law Students Don’t Understand That Its A Buyers Market For Law Students
Much has been made about the sorry state of legal education. Students are graduating with huge loads of debt and dwindling job prospects. The press has hit this topic so much as of late that the number of LSAT takers has dropped considerably. So, what does that mean for those pre-law students who did take the [...]
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Sep, 2012
New Petition Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
New Petition Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
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Sep, 2012
Akhil Amar on Lochner
I am a great admirer of Akhil Reed Amar’s books The Bill of Rights and America’s Constitution. In fact, all PLF law clerks receive a copy of the latter as part of their assigned reading materials. Amar’s excellence as an expositor of the Constitution lies not just in his familiarity with the source materials of [...]
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Sep, 2012
Taking the next step in challenging Obamacare
Pacific Legal Foundation continues to be on the front lines in the constitutional challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In a new complaint filed yesterday on behalf of client Matt Sissel, PLF attorneys have asked Judge Beryl Howell to rule that Congress ignored the Constitution’s Origination Clause when it enacted the Obamacare [...]