Commentary

  • The Recorder

    Meet Me in St. Louis

    By William W. Bedsworth | April 6, 2001

    When I die, I want to move to St. Louis.This was not an easy decision -- especially since the sum total of all my time in St. Louis consists of a Cardinals-Astros game in 1988, during

  • New Jersey Law Journal

    Useful Way of Addressing Property Taxes

    By James J. Florio | December 13, 2004

    In his book, Coming to Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World, public-opinion researcher Daniel Yankelovich distinguished between public opinion and public judgment. The for

  • The American Lawyer

    Water Fallout

    By Tony Mauro | December 18, 2000

    At the edge of a picturesque orchard in the San Joaquin Valley in California, a stretch of pistachio trees is withering away. Some have even died. The owner of the trees blames the nearby Made

  • Legal Times

    Smoking Sparks Unfriendly Debate in Friendship Heights, Md.

    By Robert A. Levy | February 26, 2001

    A county council in Maryland last December enacted the most far-reaching tobacco ban in the nation -- an ordinance prohibiting outdoor smoking on public sidewalks, grassy areas, and parks in t

  • Legal Times

    How Does Your State Rank on 'The Democracy Index'?

    By Heather Gerken | January 1, 2007

    Our election system is in scandalous shape — lost ballots, inadequate registration lists, malfunctioning machinery, and poorly trained officials. The kind of intense political battl

  • Legal Times

    Mob Rules: Don't Let Islamic Violence Squelch Free Speech

    By Lawrence Siskind | November 27, 2006

    The heckler's veto is an American legal concept sadly transformed into an international symptom of Western timidity. From Denmark to the Vatican, from the Berlin Opera to the editorial p

  • New Jersey Law Journal

    Don't Knock Circumstantial Evidence

    By Robert A. Mintz | November 29, 2004

    After months of trial in the Scott Peterson case, what did prosecutors really prove? No eyewitnesses, no obvious motive, no murder weapon, no blood, no reliable cause of death and no solid for

  • Legal Times

    No Retreat Now

    By Brian W. Walsh and Stephanie A. Martz | September 1, 2008

    Our two organizations, the Heritage Foundation and the National Association of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers, are at opposite ends of the conservative-to-liberal spectrum. But

  • Legal Times

    Guantanamo Bay and the Justices: A Least Worst Proposal

    By Charles A. Shanor | December 8, 2003

    Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has described Guantanamo Bay as the "least worst place" to house captured Taliban and al Qaeda forces. Presumably, he was referring neither to the warm

  • Legal Times

    An Unwritten Exception?

    By J. Gerald Hebert | June 11, 2007

    When I was a small boy confronted about misbehavior, I often resorted to some explanation so far-fetched that I immediately lost all credibility. My mother used my incriminating answers

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