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Reply Brief for the Petitioner in Coleman v. Maryland Ct. of Appeals, No. 10-1016, filed on December 27, 2011 Brief for Petitioners in Armour v. Indianapolis, No. 11-161, filed on December 29, 2011 Petitioner’s Reply Brief in Vartelas v. Holder, No. 10-1211, filed on December 30, 2011 Reply Brief for Petitioner in Roberts v. Sea-Land [...]
Mainstream media—like CBS and the New York Times—have reported that in the days leading up to the Iowa primary, a large number of young adults have flowed into Iowa like this past summer’s floods down the Missouri river. They have arrived with one mission: aid and assist Presidential candidate Ron Paul in [...]
David Fincher’s remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo stays close to the dark, brooding, wintery feel of the original (directed by Niels Arden Oplev, released in 2009), which only proves that they made this movie to please the lazy Americans that couldn’t sit through two hours of subtitles. The sub plots for each [...]
As Professor Michael W. Martin and I pointed out in our new articles in the Fordham Law Review (here and here), although a huge swath of litigation occurring in federal courts is a result of filings from pro se prisoners, very few of those litigants actually obtain some modicum of success, let alone win a new [...]
Yesterday, the New York Times published an article explaining the work of the Goldwater Institute, one of the leading libertarian organizations in the country. The GI's litigation arm generally challenges any government infringement of individual liberties, including what it calls entrepreneurial freedom. What I found most interesting is that the Goldwater Institute doesn't play favorites: it [...]
Cases at the U.S. Supreme Court often involve a collision of competing values, such as Fourth Amendment cases where the right to privacy runs headfirst into the ability of police to acquire relevant inculpatory evidence. Cases in which important values clash are some of the most difficult for the Court to decide [...]
We filed a merits brief this week: Petitioners’ Reply Brief in Sackett v. EPA, No. 10-1062, filed on December 21, 2011.
Call me old-fashioned but I still believe the primary role of government is to protect our liberty. The Framers believed this was the government’s role and it was for quite some time. But if protecting liberty is the primary goal of government then with passage of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, government has become [...]