volokh.com - 3/27/2009
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Religion and Government Ethics: For comprehensive discussion of the First Bank of the United States, a leading authority is Mark R. Killenbeck, M’Culloch v. Maryland: Securing a Nation (2006) (Killenbeck has the spelling correct). The book is reviewed by H. Robert Baker in ...
volokh.com - 3/22/2009
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Richard Painter, Guest-Blogging: I'm delighted to report that
Prof. Richard Painter , of the University of Minnesota...
law school, will be guest-blogging this coming week. Prof. Painter is the author of dozens of law review articles on lawyers' ethics, ...
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volokh.com - 3/30/2009
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Open Source and Free Software: Just for the
record, in a response to my earlier posting about...
free software and copyright law , Richard Stallman sent me the following: I am disappointed that you describe my work as "open source", because I disagree ...
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THE WAGES OF HELLER: Massachusetts Trial Court Holds Gun-Storage Law Unconstitutional. Interesting…
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... THE WAGES OF HELLER: Massachusetts Trial Court Holds Gun-Storage Law Unconstitutional. Interestingly, the prosecutor agreed and decided not to appeal. ...
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Massachusetts Trial Court Holds Gun Storage Law Unconstitutional:
Interestingly, the court seemed to assume that the Second Amendment applies to state laws — what lawyers call the “incorporation” issue — which is something Heller pointedly declined to resolve.
This is more than just “interesting.” If it turns out that many - or most - lower courts begin rendering Second Amendment decisions as if Heller has already been incorporated, it will make it all that much easier for SCOTUS to decide in ...
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