New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
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Oct, 2011
The Cockle Bur Blog
Legal minds on legal matters and whatever else strikes our fancy.
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Oct, 2011
Need Help With Law School Exams? Open Book Is Here To Help
As a general rule, I usually don't advocate on behalf of books I haven't read. But there is an exception. When I have read several of the author's previous works, and I just know his next will be as spectucular as his previous ones. I have read NYU Professor Barry Friedman's books, articles and blog [...]
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Oct, 2011
Economic Freedom: Like Most Things its on the Decline Here
The Charles Koch Institute created these awesome videos on why some nations are rich and others are poor.
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Oct, 2011
New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
New Petitions Recently Filed by Cockle Printing
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Oct, 2011
More on the Strip Search Case
While Sean Bradley and I have been discussing the strip search case on this blog (here and here), others are talking about it at various forums. Adam Liptak at the New York Times and Mike Sacks at the Huffington Post cover the oral arguments. Sacks wrote that: "For the first time this term, Kennedy seemed to be [...]
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Oct, 2011
Strip Search This Post, Please!
This morning the US Supreme Court heard arguments in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders. While it sounds like a witchcraft trial, this is actually a case that asks whether or not the 4th Amendment restricts a jailor’s ability to strip search prisoners without any particular suspicion that the prisoner might smuggle contraband into the [...]
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Oct, 2011
Will the Libertarian Justice Kennedy Appear Today at Oral Arguments?
[The Supreme Court will hear argument today in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington, No. 10-945.] At 10:00 am Eastern Time, the Supreme Court will hear a case about personal autonomy, personal dignity, and a person's most private details. In prior cases addressing these themes, we've watched Justice Kennedy transform from a Law and [...]
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Oct, 2011
Breaking Bad: Perhaps the Best Show on TV
I’m not really big on TV. I used to be. I used to put in a good five hours a day watching movies or reruns of The Simpsons or whatever, anything to numb my mind. But once I got to Federal Prison, I noticed that only a select few were in charge [...]
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Oct, 2011
New Merits Brief Filed by Cockle Printing
We filed a merits brief this week, and we linked it here.
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Oct, 2011
New Merits Brief Filed by Cockle Printing
We filed a merits brief this week: Brief for the State Respondents in Nat’l Meat Assn. v. Harris, No. 10-224, filed on October 3, 2011.