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Due Process
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Media Law Prof Blog
Contemporary Understanding Of the Fourteenth Amendment
George C. Thomas III, Rutgers University, Newark, has published Newspapers and the Fourteenth Amendment: What Did the American Public Know About Section 1? in Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, volume…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Sonia Sotomayor’s Record on Abortion
SCOTUSblog summarizes Judge Sotomayor's civil appellate opinions, including one of the few cases she has decided that addressed abortion (via a challenge to the Global Gag Rule, which President Obama…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Court Rejects Ex-Detainee’s Suit Against Ashcroft and Mueller
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
A split (5-4) Supreme Court ruled today in Ashcroft v. Iqbal that allegations in an ex-detainee's complaint against former AG Ashcroft and FBI Director Mueller for constitutional torts while in custody after 9/11 were…
The Contingency
Twombly Trumps Terror Suspect’s Tort Theory, Supremes Rule 5-4
A 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court held today that high federal officials need not answer civil claims over post-9/11 detention policies. The Court ordered dismissal of a complaint…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Legalization of Marijuana: A Matter of Substantive Due Process?
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The San Francisco Chronicle editorialized about the California Governor's comments:With a rhetorical shoulder-shrug, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said it'stime to consider legalizing marijuana. His thoughts were the loose-fitvariety: "I think it's…
Death Penalty
US Supreme Court Finds Prosecution Intentionally Violated Due Process in 20 Yr Old Death Penalty Case
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
Monday, the Supreme Court heard argument in the Bies case (see 04/27/09 post), and the very next day issued its opinion in Cone v. Bell, 555 U.S. ___ (2009), both…
Death Penalty
The Checklist for Death Penalty Qualified Criminal Defense Attorneys in Florida
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
So far, we have three posts (03/27/09; 04/16/09; 04/20/09) that deal with the role of a judge - at both the trial and appellate levels - in a death penalty…
Legal Profession Blog
No Examination Required
The Washington State Court of Appeals, Division II, reversed the one-year license suspensions of three exotic dancers, concluding that the dancers had been denied due process. The conduct that led to the suspensions…
Death Penalty
Texas Chief Justice Sharon Keller’s Lesson to Us All About Due Process
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
Due process under the law has been constitutionally protected since our nation began, although the phrase gets tossed around quite a bit these days without much concern as to its…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Bay Area Groups Speak Out on ICE Practices
Four Bay Area Immigrants' Rights Groups Call on Government to Revise Immigration Enforcement PracticesSAN FRANCISCO - Four Bay Area immigrants' rights organizations spoke out today against the federal government's current…