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Time for Radical Change in Legal Education
Students would save three years of tuition if they could enter law school after their freshman year.
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Prosecutors Help with Exonerations
Law enforcement personnel initiated or cooperated in a record high number of them in 2012.
The Justices Confront a Solomonic Task
Currently the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case that pits the interests of a white, would-be adoptive couple, to whom a Latina biological mother surrendered her baby girl at birth, against those of the natural father and his Cherokee tribe.
Letter to the Editor: Reading Too Much into Minor Case
Dan Schweitzer, Supreme Court counsel of the National Association of Attorneys General, responds to Simon Lazarus' NLJ piece about the implications of Wos v. E.M.A.
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'Miranda' and the Constitution
It has become increasingly evident that the Justice Department violated the constitutional rights of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by questioning him without his Miranda warnings. It is disturbing that the DOJ would risk its criminal prosecution by ignoring such basic rules and even more disturbing for what this says as to its view of the Constitution.
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Failure to Mirandize Does Not Violate Constitution or 'Miranda'
Much of the discussion in the media on whether the surviving Boston bombing suspect should have been given Miranda warnings when he was arrested appears to be based on a misconception: that law enforcement officers are required to give suspects the warnings set forth in Miranda v. Arizona and that failure to do so is a violation of the law, at least if the public-safety exception doesn't apply. That is not correct.
High Court Defends Consumer Rights and Economic Freedom
Given any ambiguity, as Justice Anthony Kennedy has aptly proclaimed in his book, "the tie goes to freedom." That is what the court did in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons.
ABA and Legal Education: Change Won't Come from Within
Since legal education provides access to justice, power and social mobility, urgent reform is needed now.
Businesses Should Have The Right to Make Their Case
Courts should be impartial forums, where everyone can at least get a fair opportunity to voice their arguments. Sadly, in cases involving businesses, courts regularly put a thumb on the scales of justice.
The First Amendment and the 'Reparative' Therapy Cases
Tempers will surely continue to run hot over the merits of "reparative" therapy, and rightly so. But it is important not to let hard cases (or unsympathetic plaintiffs) make bad law.
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When Soldiers Go Social On Politics
Although the Uniform Code of Military Justice criminalizes a servicemember's use of 'contemptuous words' against the president, some use social media to insult Obama.
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One Prescription for Medical Device and Drug Law
Any Supreme Court decision in this case will not unify the law. Congress needs to step in and create a unified medical device and brand/generic drug system that does not draw arbitrary distinctions.
