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Showing posts with label U.S. Supreme Court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. Supreme Court. Show all posts
Friday, October 17, 2025

Whitman: Failing rule of law in America means, if not civil war, ever more dismal standards of living, dying

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Whitman speaks in Montreal. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Professor James Q. Whitman , Yale Law, just concluded an extraordinary lecture o...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Court's pass on Wynn bid to revisit 'actual malice' makes sense, but standard still fuels misinformation

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Wynn operates the Encore Casino in Everett, Mass., since a dust-up with authorities over ownership. Holiday Point via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

UMass Law Federalist Society talks speech, SCOTUS

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Regular blog readers will soon recognize that I am playing catch-up, sharing items that I stockpiled for the better part of the spring semes...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Let's laugh at them, not with them: Klobuchar cites serious stats, but occasions levity in Jackson hearing

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On day 2 of the Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) borrowed a joke from The Daily Show 's Trevor Noah...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Whitehouse laments mandatory arbitration, civil jury woes; SCOTUS-nominated Jackson does not engage

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I., one of my state senators) just questioned U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on the...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

Judge Jackson Media Law, Torts Tour: From Big Meat 'COOL' to 'A Love of Food' and 'Everlasting Life'

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[A revised version of this post is available to download as a paper on SSRN .] The Hon. KBJ ( Wikicago CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Profiles of U.S. Circ...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Breyer's tastiest torts, Disney's perspective problem play Paramount late night with Colbert, Noah

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Late Show monolog mock-up On Wednesday, Paramount's late-night television kindly obliged my classroom teaching with two legal reference...