Showing posts with label judges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label judges. Show all posts
Friday, June 14, 2024

Repugnance doesn't establish standing in court: Supreme Court reverses Kacsmaryk on medical abortion

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  Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that (for the time being at least) the medical abortion pill  mifepristone should remain le...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Mexico’s Law Suit Against US Gun Dealers

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U.S. gun dealers are protected against lawsuits stemming from crimes committed by their customers. by the  Protection of Lawful Commerce in ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Hiring former Supreme Court Clerks (is expensive)

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 The Washington Post has the story: Clerks for hire: The Supreme Court recruiting race . Supreme Court clerks are offered bonuses of up to $...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Same sex unions take a limited step forward in Hong Kong

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 The Washington Post has the story: Hong Kong court hands rare victory to advocates of same-sex unions , By Lily Kuo and Vic Chiang Septembe...
Sunday, September 3, 2023

Protest against political persecution of Prof Muhammad Yunus, and more general threats to democracy in Bangladesh

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  The Bangladesh Daily Star publishes an open letter, and the NY Times provides some general background. Here's the  open letter to Prim...
Sunday, July 9, 2023

Sex work contracts are enforceable in small claims court, in Canada

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 In Nova Scotia (where selling sex is legal but buying it is not), a sex worker sued a delinquent client for her fee and won (despite his ar...
Friday, May 19, 2023

The Comstock Act returns from the dead, post Roe

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 While there's no agreement about whether life begins at conception, it appears that the Comstock Act has risen from the dead to play a ...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Comstockery and abortifacients, on the way to the Supreme Court

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 The Comstock Act of 1873 made it a Federal crime to distribute information or medicines for contraception or abortion, and more generally o...
Saturday, March 18, 2023

Are embryos property?

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 A Virginia judge has managed to make a repugnant legal argument about a repugnant transaction, since the relevant precedent he identifies h...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Judge shopping for abortion rulings

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  Justice (like politics, sausage and econometrics) is constructed in complex ways. The Washington Post has a story on the case against an a...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Donate blood or organs to pay a traffic fine or shorten a prison term?

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I spend a lot of my time thinking and writing about repugnant transactions and controversial markets, and some of that intersects with my wo...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Biden Signs Bill to Protect Same-Sex Marriage Rights

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 With little delay after the Senate passage of the bill , the House followed, and now President Biden has signed into law a bill protecting ...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Same sex marriage rights reaffirmed by the Senate

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After a Supreme Court ruling in 2015, it seemed secure that the right to same sex marriage was the law of the land. However the recent Supre...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Black markets in abortion pills

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 Americans differ in their opinions about whether American women have a right to end a pregnancy, or whether state legislators have the righ...
Friday, October 7, 2022

This Supreme Court term has many cases on repugnant transactions and controversial markets

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 The newly conservative-dominated Supreme Court is ready for its second term, and has a docket full of what readers of this blog know I thin...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Lawsuits involving NKR's kidney exchange contracts

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  Kim Krawiec, the Sullivan & Cromwell Professor of Law at the University of Virginia,  sheds some light on recent legal exchanges betwe...
Monday, February 3, 2020

Unraveling of appellate court clerkships (only more so)

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Steve Leider writes: "I know you keep an eye on the unraveling of judicial hiring.  Listening to a podcast about the supreme court t...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Repugnant statistical analyses

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Joshua Gans points us to an unusual case of repugnance. Here's the beginning of Joshua's blog post: The unintended consequences o...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Some adult supervision of the law clerk hiring process

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Kagan Says She'll 'Take Into Account' Whether Judges Follow New Clerk Hiring Plan " U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Ka...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Another New Federal Law Clerk Hiring (Pilot) Plan

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Future law clerks who are already in their second or third year of law school have already been hired, but here's a plan to defer the h...