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Joint pretrial order & pretrial conference
At the end of March, the parties jointly filed a Pretrial Order in preparation for trial in June. A pretrial conference was held before Magistrate Judge Boland…
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Plaintiff's summary judgment motion
In February, Plaintiffs filed a summary judgment motion on the Copyright Clause claim. The motion has been fully briefed. Here is the Government's oppositio…
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Drop it like it's a hot samosa
From Badmash.…
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Human Rights Watch Calls for Special Prosecutor for Rumsfeld
When the world's leading human rights organization calls for a special prosecutor for two specific individuals, Donald Rumsfeld and George Tenet, we should…
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Lanka Burning
Cartoonist Nina Paley is retelling the Ramayana with 1920s music and 21st century animation. Striking.…
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AP: Disappointment for Michigan family over dead Marine's e-mail
The Associated Press quotes CIS Executive Director Jennifer Granick in this article about recovering emails from a Marine's Yahoo! account.…
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Rushdie's op-ed in LA Times
Salman Rushdie's op-ed today notes the power of the Word, citing scripture and classical works, as well as modern writings: [F]iction does retain the occas…
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New Progressive Law Journal from Harvard Law
Unbound, a new student-edited law journal from Harvard Law School shows tremendous promise, at least as indicated by the contributions to its first issue (which…
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Brown & Loving Short-circuited Democracy
Michael Berube's new post parodies the complaints now lodged against Roe v Wade: Brown v. Board ... set off a cycle of political viciousness ... that has p…
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Rice Tackles Democracy, Law in United States
Non-associated Press Report: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returned to the United States today, and spoke "pretty pointedly" with President Bush…
Golan v. Holder - District Court Order on Motions for Summary Judgment
The District Court ruled on the parties' pending cross motions for summary judgment. The Court denied Plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment, a…
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DeLay Certifiable
Tom DeLay is taking aim at not-arch-conservative-enough Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy: “Absolutely. We’ve got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based u…