Legal minds on legal matters and whatever else strikes our fancy.
Same-sex marriage promises to be an enormously divisive issue in this election year. No current candidate stands for gay marriage: President Obama advocates civil unions and Congressman Ron Paul says that the issue should be left to the states. Yet, several candidates are vehemently opposed to same-sex marriage. One of them is Rick Santorum. Now, [...]
The Independence Institute has filed its Brief As Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners - Medicaid Mandate in Florida v. DHHS, No. 11-400, and you can read it at the Cockle Printing website.
Today Pacific Legal Foundation filed this motion in the case of St. Louis entrepreneur Michael Munie, asking the court to strike down a Missouri state law that essentially forbids anyone from going into the moving business without first getting permission from the existing moving companies. To be more precise, it’s illegal to [...]
Certain child advocacy organizations have filed their Brief As Amici Curiae In Support of Petitioners On The Minimum Coverage Provision Question in DHHS v. Florida, No. 11-398, and you can read it at the Cockle Printing website.
This week, in what Adam Liptak at the New York Times suggested was “most significant religious liberty decision in two decades, the Supreme Court ruled in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church v. EEOC that: The interest of society in the enforcement of employment discrimination statutes is undoubtedly important. But so too is the interest of religious groups [...]
I am a little late on New Year's resolutions. But I thought I would shoot for three things I would like to see happen in the criminal justice system in 2012. At number three I would like to see the U.S. Supreme Court declare, loud and clear, that lawyers must be constitutionally effective at the [...]