Category Archives: Judiciary

An imminent global environmental apocalypse

“Shocking New Report on Loss of Nature Paints a Terrifying Picture for the Future of Humanity”Up to 1 million species are at risk of extinction.John Vidal for HuffPost, 05/06/2019“Planet Earth has been put on red alert by hundreds of leading … Continue reading

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Case o' The Week: Convictions of King and Queen Upheld by Ninth – Anieze-Smith and Restitution

  Queen avoids custody.   (But not restitution).United States v. Anieze-Smith, 2019 WL 1944737 (9thCir. May 2, 2019), decision available here. Players: Decision by Judge Gould, joined by Judge Nguyen and District Judge Benitez.   Hard-fought appeal by, among others, CD Cal AFPD … Continue reading

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330. Dead professor driving

Ive long thought that one of the reasons judges are so concerned about traffic stops is the potential of a traffic stop to wreck a judges career.  Just look at Ohios Justice Resnick (see post 33), Arkansass Judge Davis (see post 36) and … Continue reading

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Ask the authors: “Plain words, easily understood”

The following is a series of questions prompted by the publication of Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone’s “The Free Speech Century” (Oxford University Press, 2019). As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously suggested in 1919 in Schenck v. United … Continue reading

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People v. Bolding (Cal. Ct. App. – May 1, 2019)

Today's opinion makes me wonder if the defendants charged in the college admissions scandal might eventually have a state law problem as well.The existing defendants have all been charged with federal crimes, in federal court.  But — at least currently … Continue reading

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