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Jones Day. Slate covered the law firm’s lawsuit against a startup company for — gasp — linking to the firm profiles of lawyers who had bought real estate. Here’s Citizen Media Law Project’s summary...
View ArticleMissouri State Officials Push For Stronger Public Records Law
Both Missouri Governor Jay Nixon — the longtime attorney general in the state — and Attorney General Chris Koster have backed an amendment to state law that, according to the prime buzz blog at the...
View ArticleHate Crimes: Where Are We?
[Thanks much to the folks at The Bilerico Project for cross-posting this piece this evening! -Ed.] There is a lot of info out there right now about the hate crimes bill, known as the Matthew Shepard...
View ArticleSupreme Court Takes On Student Groups’ Funding Dispute
Dean Martinez Over the past five years or so, the Alliance Defense Fund, in conjunction with the Christian Legal Society, has been poking around, picking fights, hoping to reach Monday’s Supreme Court...
View ArticleSCOTUS to Hear Washington Petition Signer Case
The Supreme Court today accepted certiorari on the Doe v. Reed case involving the petition signatories from Washington’s Referendum 71. Referencing the Court’s earlier action this week in prohibiting...
View ArticleJustice Thomas on ‘Proposition 8-related retaliation’
Justice Thomas In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, today’s campaign finance decision (full coverage at SCOTUSblog), Justice Clarence Thomas — in an opinion, characteristically, joined by...
View Article‘One Seat in the Press Section’
“We will be able to accommodate one seat in the press section for Mr. Geidner.” Truly, few emails have made me more happy than this one, letting me know that I have a seat in the U.S. Supreme Court’s...
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