Legal minds on legal matters and whatever else strikes our fancy.
Last week I was explaining to a friend the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Jones, the case where the Government installed a GPS device to monitor an alleged drug dealer's vehicle over the course of 28 days. After exhaustively covering the three opinions, my friend had this remark, "why didn't they just get [...]
This week Adam Gopnik published a piece at The New Yorker on this country's mass incarceration problem. Not only does it provide a number of sources and statistics to back up its claims, it also does so in a wonderful yet chilling way. The piece is long but well worth the read. You can find [...]
Between my first year of law school and two young children, I have really cut down on the amount of media I read in a given day. I tend to follow a pattern of checking the headlines at the New York Times, and then looking to see if any members of the Supreme Court [...]
Huls v. Llabona, filed on January 17, 2012 Carona v. U.S., filed on January 23, 2012
Cockle Printing has prepared and filed the Brief for Amici Curiae Gathie Barnett Edmonds and Marie Barnett Snodgrass in Support of Petitioners in Morgan v. Swanson, No. 11-804.
Brief for the Petitioner in Vasquez v. U.S., Inc., No. 11-199, filed on January 23, 2012 Brief for Petitioner in Hill v. U.S., No. 11-5721, filed on January 25, 2012 Brief for Petitioner in Dorsey v. U.S., No. 11-5683, filed on January 25, 2012
When it comes to free speech rights, the Supreme Court typically applies the rule of “strict scrutiny,” which holds that a government restriction on free speech is presumed unconstitutional, until the government proves otherwise. The reason is that, given the importance of freedom of speech, courts should “not presume acquiescence in the [...]
K.C. Johnson has an insightful blog post on the collapse of serious American history scholarship, due in large part to the influence of politically correct fads in the academy. Johnson notes that the recent Montana Supreme Court decision regarding campaign finance restrictions relied heavily on scholarship about Montana history, yet the court [...]
The Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom has filed its Argument Supporting the Respondents, and Addressing the Minimum Coverage Provision in DHHS v. Florida, No. 11-398, and you can read it at the Cockle Printing website.