NA It wasn’t a great Supreme Court term for property rights advocates. In March, the Supreme Court refused to hear Bowers v. Oneida County Industrial Development Agency, which I and many others thought would have been a great opportunity to overturn or at least limit Kelo v. City of New London. On June 30, the Court similarly […]
From today’s order by Judge Myong J. Joun (D. Mass.) in Gino v. President & Fellows of Harvard College: The Data Colada Defendants request sanctions based on Gino’s defamation claims, which alleged that the Defendants falsely accused her of data fabrication in four academic studies. Gino’s suit followed an investigation by Harvard University, which concluded […]
A short excerpt from today’s long Braid v. Stilley, written by Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Scudder and joined by Chief Judge Diane Sykes and Judge Thomas Kirsch: In September 2021 Dr. Alan Braid, a Texas OB/GYN, wrote an editorial in the Washington Post admitting he performed an abortion in violation of the Texas Heartbeat Act. […]
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The Trump administration is ramping up its attack on Harvard University. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Wednesday that it would subpoena the university for information regarding its Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), a program that certifies schools to enroll international students. Since April, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has made sweeping demands that […]
Back when the debate about foreign law—including especially Islamic law—in U.S. courts was in the news, I blogged quite a bit about it. I also wrote two law review articles on the subject, see Foreign Law in American Courts and Religious Law (Especially Islamic Law) in American Courts. My basic view was that: American courts […]
Set aside for a moment the real estate price controls, the government groceries, even the growing stack of missed opportunities to forthrightly condemn antisemitic violence—New York mayoral Democratic Party nominee Zohran Mamdani this week reminded us anew about the awfulness of his candidacy by receiving the enthusiastic endorsement of (shudder) the local teachers union. “[Mamdani] […]
A bit of pragmatic candor from an order today in Point Bridge Capital, Inc. v. Johnson (N.D. Tex.): Plaintiffs’ Motion to Permit Remote Trial Testimony of Expert Witness … states that their expert has been hospitalized for heart problems and is under strict doctor’s orders not to travel. Plaintiffs submit a sworn affidavit in support of their […]