The Papers of John Marshall: Vol. VII: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, April 1807-December 1813
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barbara L. Bezdek (University of Maryland - School of Law) has posted Alinksy's Prescription: Democracy Alongside Law (John Marshall Law Review, Vol. 42, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article examines the import of the life’s work of...
Paralegal SLO (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The publication that created Supreme Court bobbleheads for its subscribers is coming out with a new item: Supreme Court Sluggers baseball cards. The first baseball card (PDF) issued by the Green Bag law publication features Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in the pose of Chicago Cubs pitcher Mordecai "Three Fingers" Brown, the National Law Journal reports. Brown played for Roberts' favorite...
Chicago IP Litigation Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Supreme Court hears oral argument today in Bilski v. Kappos . The Court will decide the proper test for obviousness and will either decide or at least significantly impact the patentability of software and business method patents. Here are the questions presented: Whether the Federal Circuit erred by holding that a "process" must be tied to a particular machine or apparatus, or transform...
Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Frederic R. Kellogg, University of Edinburgh Law School, has posted Holmes, Common Law Theory and Judicial Restraint, which originally appeared in John Marshall Law Review 36 (2003): 457. Here is the abstract:Judicial restraint is a subject properly bound with the interpretation, and hence the definition, of law. The nature and contours of what judges interpret dictate what is appropriate for
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The New Zealand Law Society council yesterday elected Rotorua barrister Jonathan Temm - son of the late High Court judge Paul Temm of Auckland - to be the society's next president. He will take over in April from John Marshall,...
State Journal Featured Content (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
This YouNews segment includes traditional signing of the proclamation.
Bostonist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
-- Some Dorchester voters had more on their minds yesterday than the Boston mayoral contest. A 23-year-old man was shot and killed yesterday morning in front of the John Marshall Elementary School, which serves Dorchester as a polling place. Voting was briefly disrupted, and classes were dismissed early as a result of the violence. [ Herald ] -- In JP, cops working the polls at English High School...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Violence returned yesterday to the neighborhood surrounding the John Marshall Elementary School in Dorchester when a young man was shot to death at an intersection about 100 yards from the school.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
John Marshall, 39, of Miami finished the Ford Ironman World Championship Triathlon on Oct. 10 in Kona, Hawaii. It marked his second time competing and completing the most prestigious ironman.
Field Gulls (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Just now watching the game. Jubelale by my side. Seattle ran a very nice looking blitz out of a 3-1-1-6 look. I notate it that way because the second level was Darryl Tapp and David Hawthorne . Both end up blitzing, but it seems obtuse to group a linebacker and defensive a lineman together. The first thing I like is the personnel on the defensive line. Lawrence Jackson is playing strongside defensive...
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
John Marshall talks to Ed Viesturs, the first American to reach the summit of all 14 of the world's highest peaks, about how he nearly died on K2 and his advice to other climbers. Ed Viesturs will never forget climbing K2, the fearsome 28,251-foot...
Customs Law (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
I know this is short notice, but if anyone is going to be in Miami tomorrow for the ABA Section of International Law Fall Meeting, please say hello to me. I will be helping to moderate a panel on transfer price for customs and income tax Thursday at 8:30 AM. Apparently, the ABA felt the driest possible topic should start off the morning. Friday there is a tour of MIA Customs and Border Protection cargo...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
As football practice at Lakeville South ended Monday, a wager was made. Someone waved a dollar in the air and bet that stout lineman Ede Madolimov could not run a route and catch a pass. The ball was snapped, the 6-1, 265-pound Madolimov -- who is known as "the Russian" -- rumbled into the left flat, saw the pass coming and tucked it away like he was Jerry Rice.Hoots and hollers ensued. And...
Dad29 (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Interesting. In 1799, the Federalist minority of the Virginia House of Delegates produced an extended defense of the Alien and Sedition Acts. This Minority Report responded to Madison's famous Virginia Resolutions and efforts by Virginia Republicans to tar the Adams Administration with having exceeded its powers under the federal Constitution. Originally attributed to John Marshall by biographer Albert...
Of Arms and the Law (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Right here. It's an argument that future Chief Justice John Marshall authored a document supporting the Sedition Act, which criminalized criticism of the president or Congress (but not of the vice president, his rival, Thomas Jefferson)). I think it interesting...
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