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Due Process
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SALT Shaker
Retroactive Application of New York Tax Law Violates Taxpayers’ Due Process Rights
By Zachary Atkins and Andrew Appleby A New York appellate court held that the Department of Taxation and Finance could not retroactively apply a 2010 amendment to the Tax Law…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Let the Burden Fit the Crime: Extending Proportionality Review to Sex Offenders”
Main April 16, 2014"Let the Burden Fit the Crime: Extending Proportionality Review to Sex Offenders"The title of this post is the title of this paper by Erin Lynn Miller, which…
Red Notice Law Journal
The Effect of Egypt’s Broken Justice System on INTERPOL
The Egyptian justice system continues to suffer from the absence of basic due process, and we continue to see example after example of cases wherein defendants receive no protection from…
The Faculty Lounge
AALS Sections on Internet & Computer Law and Defamation & Privacy Law Call for Papers
The AALS Section on Internet & Computer Law and the Section on Defamation & Privacy invite paper proposals for our co-sponsored panel on Automated Decision-Making at the 2015 AALS Annual…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Insurance Litigation Generally Should Not Occur In A Foreign Insurer’s Backyard
Earlier this week, I had to travel over 3,500 miles round trip to Minneapolis to take issue with a health insurance company suing my Florida policyholder client in Minnesota federal…
CrimProf Blog
Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads
in criminal law and procedure ejournals are here. The usual disclaimers apply.RankDownloadsPaper Title1648Last Words: A Survey and Analysis of Federal Judges' Views on Allocution in Sentencing Mark W. Bennett and Ira P. Robbins U.S. District Court (Northern…
GlobalTort
Big Tobacco’s Engle Appeals Continue at SCOTUS
By Kirk Hartley
Big tobacco is continuing its effort to undo Engle through appeals to SCOTUS. Last fall, big tobacco launched yet another attack. Now, LAW360 reports that 10 new cert petitions were…
Education Law Prof Blog
Emotional and Physical Harms Through the Lens of Substantive Due Process by Emily Frances Suski
By Derek Black
On Tuesday, Derek posted about the recent 5th Circuit case Clayton ex rel. Hamilton v. Tate County School Dist., 2014 WL 1202515 (5th Cir. 2014), in which the Court found…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Mass Death Sentences in Egypt Highlight Need for Judicial Reform
In Mass Death Sentences in Egypt Highlight Need for Judicial Reform, Professor Sahar Aziz contends that the decision of the Egyptian judge to impose the death sentence on 529 defendants…
Education Law Prof Blog
5th Circuit Upholds Severe Paddling of Student for Being Out of His Seat, Ignoring Fundamental Questions
By Derek Black
Last week, in Clayton ex rel. Hamilton v. Tate County School Dist., 2014 WL 1202515 (5th Cir. 2014), the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a student's 8th and 14th amendment challenges…