Sunday, May 19, 2013

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Legal Opinions On Page 1

  • Does Denying Opposite-Sex Couples Access to Civil Partnership Violate Their Equality Rights?  See – Opinion 1
  • Does Routinely Sampling DNA From Arrested Felons Violate The Fourth Amendment? See – Opinion 2
  • D.C. Circuit Holds that Month-Long Police GPS Monitoring Triggers Fourth Amendment? – See Opinion 3
  • Evaluating the Eighth Amendment’s Ban on Only Cruel and Unusual Punishments – See Opinion 4
  • How The Supreme Court May Have Quietly Undermined the Constitutional Requirement of “Probable Cause” – See Opinion 5
  • An Oklahoma Abortion Law Raises New and Different Rights Questions – See Opinion 6
  • The Supreme Court Denies A Public Employee’s Privacy in Electronic Communications: What’s Next? – See Opinion 7
  • The Miranda Right to Counsel Shrinks at the Supreme Court – See Opinion 8
  • The Supreme Court Holds That Responding to Police Interrogation Waives The Right to Remain Silent – See Opinion 9
  • High Court Rejects Life Without Parole for All Juvenile, Non-Homicide Crimes – See Opinion 10
  • A Prisoner Seeks Vegan Food in Prison: Why Refusing Him is Both Illegal and Foolish – See Opinion 11
  • Anti-Abortion Billboards Claim “Black Children Are An Endangered Species”: A Meaningful Contention? – See Opinion 12
  • Should Possession of Child Pornography Require Reparations to the Child? – See Opinion 13
  • Can Violence Be Allowed When a Warning Is Prohibited? The Kansas High Court Issues a Perplexing Ruling – See Opinion 14
  • The Vermont Supreme Court Considers “Loss of Companionship” Damages for a Dog’s Death – See Opinion 15
  • Excluding Illegally-Obtained Evidence and the Doctrine of Double Effect – See Opinion 16

Legal Opinions On Page 2

  • Suit Challenges Federal Ban on Compensation for Bone Marrow Donor – See Opinion 17
  • Are “Hate Crimes” the Same Thing as “Thought Crimes”?: Opponents of the Federal Hate Crime Bill Invoke Free Speech – See Opinion 18
  • Does the Mere Existence of an Invalid Arrest Warrant Injure Its Target? – See Opinion 19
  • Cass Sunstein’s Views About Organ Donation: When is a “Nudge” Illegitimate? – See Opinion 20
  • What Vegans Can Learn from the Gay Rights Movement’s Successes – See Opinion 21
  • Supreme Court Considers Constitutionality of Juvenile Life Without Parole – See Opinion 22Lessons From an Animal Cruelty Case In the U.S. Supreme Court – See Opinion 23
  • Child Obesity as Child Neglect: Is the Standard American Diet Dangerous? – See Opinion 24
  • The Right of Confrontation: A Supreme Court Decision Reveals Strong Schisms – See Opinion 25
  • The Highest Court of New York State Protects Privacy from GPS Monitoring – See Opinion 26
  • Kansas v. Ventris: The Supreme Court Misconstrues the Right to Counsel – See Opinion 27
  • Ten Angry Men?: Why The Supreme Court Should Take a Jury Unanimity Case – See Opinion 28
  • Implications of the “Holier-than-Thou Effect” For Criminal Justice – See Opinion 29
  • Avoiding Race Discrimination Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The U.S. Supreme Court Hears Argument in Ricci v. DeStefano – See Opinion 30
  • Feminists For Life and the Hard Questions It Must Confront – See Opinion 31
  • Why A Botched Abortion Case Should, and Does, Inspire Outrage: The Sycloria Williams Story – See Opinion 32

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