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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Book Review, In Pursuit of Collective Liberation in Feminist Constitutionalism
By Tracy Thomas
Yvette Butler, In Pursuit of Collective Liberation in Feminist Constitutionalism, 122(6) Mich. Law Rev. ___ (April 2024, Forthcoming).Julie Suk’s book, After Misogyny responds to the tension between present day misogyny…
Chicago Criminal Law Blog
Utah Supreme Court Rules Fifth Amendment Protects Cell Phone Passwords
In Contrast to Illinois Supreme Court, Utah Rules that Police Cannot Compel Suspect to Turn Over Password to Cell Phone In an update to our prior coverage of an Illinois…
Legal Profession Blog
Password Protected
In the course of a criminal investigation, police secured a search warrant for the defendant's phone.Defendant refused to provide the password, teeing up an issue for the Utah Supreme Court…
White Collar & Government Enforcement Blog
“Take Five” – A Guide to Invoking the Fifth Amendment in Civil Cases
By Bill Mateja, A. Joseph Jay, III, Michael Gilbert, Charles Kreindler, Kate Rumsey, Jason Hoggan
Written by Paul Desmond in the key of E-flat minor and performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet using a funky quintuple (5/4) time, “Take Five” is and was the biggest…
Cross-Examination Blog
Cross-Examining Donald Trump
By Unknown
Trump is currently in trial in the Trump civil fraud trial. He was called to the stand by the Attorney General’s office in the civil fraud trial. In a criminal…
Kirakosian Law Blog
What Your Wrongful Arrest Attorney Will Do For You
In a world that values justice and fairness, wrongful arrests remain a pressing concern. Dealing with this without a good wrongful arrest attorney can turn someone’s life upside down, causing…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Inartful dodgers: no constitutional <em>substance</em> in Justice Sotomayor's cert denial statement in acquitted conduct cases
In prior posts in my "inartful dodgers" series (which are linked below), I have mostly bemoaned the cert denial statements authored or joined by four Justices that suggested they voted…
Chicago Litigation Blog
A Review of Last Week’s Opinions
By Jake Leahy
Calcutt v. FDIC (Administrative) Listen to the Calcutt v. FDIC Decision Syllabus here. A banker was suspended and fined by the FDIC for actions he took on one financially troubled…
The Energy Law Blog
Louisiana’s Sabine River Authority Not Entitled To Sovereign Immunity
In a recent opinion, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the “Sabine River Authority, State of Louisiana” (“SRA-L”) is not entitled to Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity.[1] SRA-L was…
Simple Justice
Supreme Court Holds Retaining Tax Sale Excess Is A Taking
Some issues just seem so obvious as to defy imagination that it would even be in issue, requiring any court, no less the Supreme Court, to rule. Yet it did…