volokh.com - 11/22/2008
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Isn't This a Bit Premature? CBS News reports: A school on Long Island has been renamed Barack Obama Elementary School in honor of his historic rise to the presidency. The move at the largely black and Hispanic school in Hempstead is among the first in what will likely be a wave of name changes ...
volokh.com - 11/25/2008
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Akhil Amar on Heller: In the Supreme Court
issue of the Harvard Law Review , Akhil Amar
has a case comment on DC v. Heller that begins in this amusing way: Well, the show sure ended with a bang. On the last day of the Term, the Court — for the first ...
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volokh.com - 11/24/2008
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"Judge Postpones Ruling In Lori Drew Case": Kim
Zetter of Wired has the latest update in the
Lori Drew case, namely that Judge Wu decided not to rule at this time on the defense's latest motion to dismiss (this one specifically raising the lack of ...
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volokh.com - 11/21/2008
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Eric Holder on firearms policy: Earlier this year,
Eric Holder--along with Janet Reno and several other former
officials from the Clinton Department of Justice--co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller. The brief was filed in ...
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A PREDICTION: “The early twenty-first century civil libertarian critique of government surveillance…
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... A PREDICTION: “The early twenty-first century civil libertarian critique of government surveillance and detention activities will seem as eccentric in 2025 as the early nineteenth century critique of the national bank seems to us today.” ...
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... by 2025 puts it this way : "A global multipolar system is emerging with the rise of China, India, and others. The relative power of nonstate actors businesses, tribes, religious organizations, and even criminal networks also will increase." If that's the case, suggesting that the businesses directly affected by a problem like piracy handle it themselves without bringing governments into it (except perhaps to try and punish the suspects) could be just ...
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