The Cockle Bur Blog
Legal minds on legal matters and whatever else strikes our fancy.
Booklist Reviews Law Man
Booklist Online is a collection of over 130,000 book reviews for librarians, book groups, and book lovers—from the experts at the American Library Association. I was excited to learn that a few weeks ago, David Pitt wrote a Booklist Online review of Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption. At 23, [...]
Chief Justice Roberts Honors Court Clerk William K. Suter
As SCOTUSblog noted yesterday, Chief Justice Roberts, after reading his most famous opinion, issued a public recognition to Supreme Court Clerk William K. Suter for his 50 years in government service. Fifty years at anything is impressive, but Clerk Suter's dedication to the law is unsurpassed. Clerk Suter has played a profound role at the Court, including syncing [...]
New Merits Briefs Filed by Cockle Printing
New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
New Merits Briefs Filed by Cockle Printing
Brief for Respondent in Florida v. Jardines, No. 11-564, filed on June 25, 2012 Reply Brief in Johnson v. Williams, No. 11-465, filed on June 28, 2012
A Halfway House Nightmare
When I saw that halfway houses were trending on Twitter last week, I almost started laughing. I didn't know what the story was about, but I could take an educated guess. In case you missed it, the New York Times ran a series of pieces on the deplorable conditions at private New Jersey halfway houses. Then, [...]
New Petition Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
Supreme Court hands major First Amendment victory to workers
The Supreme Court today issued its decision in Knox v. SEIU, the union fees case in which PLF (joined by Cato, MSLF, and CCJ), filed this amicus brief. The case was about whether the union violated the law by requiring non-members to pay a special assessment to support a political campaign without first issuing the [...]