Legal minds on legal matters and whatever else strikes our fancy.
I haven’t had much opportunity to blog the past couple of weeks because Annie and I have been busy with book promotion. On August 7th, my memoir LAW MAN: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption landed at bookshelves around the country. And in the past two [...]
Reply Brief in Kloeckner v. Solis, No. 11-184, filed on August 13, 2012 Brief for the Petitioner in Evans v. Michigan, No. 11-1327, filed on August 15, 2012
Brief for the Petitioner in Marx v. General Revenue Corporation, No. 11-1175, filed on July 27, 2012
Over at the ACS blog, Nicole Flatow interviewed attorney and State Appellate Defender Valerie Newman about her experience arguing before the Supreme Court on behalf of the respondent in Lafler v. Cooper. Rarely, do we hear an unvarnished take on what it is like for attorneys to argue before the high court. Speaking of the [...]
Guest post by Elaine Sylvester 12 people were killed when a gunman entered a theater in Aurora, Colorado, and proceeded to open fire on the captive audience. Like many news-hungry Americans, I spent a sizable percentage of the days after combing the Internet for insight into the cruelties that we witnessed from afar. And [...]