volokh.com - 12/31/2008
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Chief Justice John Roberts Renews But Scales Back His Call for a Judicial Pay Increase: Chief Justice John Roberts has renewed his call for a federal judicial pay increase in his 2008 Year End Report on the Federal Judiciary. This is hardly a surprise. Roberts and his predecessors have been ...
volokh.com - 12/30/2008
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Using Eminent Domain to Acquire Land for the
Flight 93 Memorial: Various readers have asked for my
views on the federal government's possible plan to use eminent domain to acquire land for a memorial commemorating the heroes of Flight 93 , the plane ...
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volokh.com - 12/30/2008
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Educated Judges are Better Judges: Josh Wright and
his co-authors find that federal judges are less likely
to have their decisions in antitrust cases appealed if they have received training at the George Mason Law and Economics seminars, at least in ...
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volokh.com - 1/3/2009
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Nice Guys Finish ... First? I was happily
surprised to see that Michael Bennet has been tapped
to replace Ken Salazar as a Senator from Colorado. I knew Michael from law school and working in DC thereafter, and he always struck me as very smart, able, ...
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