Law, Strategy, and Risk in Commercial Disputes
A 5-4 Supreme Court today ruled that the Constitution forbids the federal government from refusing to recognize same-sex marriages. United States v. Windsor, No. 12-307 (U.S. June 26, 2013).
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the Court. Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan, and Sotomayor joined him.
Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Scalia, and Thomas dissented.…
Do you own a handgun? If so, did you yourself purchase it? Did you do so before you turned 21? And, regardless, do you believe a person in the 18 to 20 year-old range has a constitutional right to acquire small weapons that fire bullets?
Congress, in the waning days of President Lyndon Johnson, seems…
You run a nightclub. You also drive a Jeep. And sometimes you use the Jeep to bring cocaine and cocaine base to your nightclub.
The police suspect you. They get a warrant to put on your Jeep a device that will allow the police, by using global positioning satellite technology, to track where your Jeep…
As our oil-and-gas trial prepares to drill into day eight, Blawgletter pauses to reflect on events outside DeRidder, Louisiana, the charming and friendly seat of Beauregard Parish.
The news that most caught our eye involves the case that took our breath away in law school more than any other — Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942).
Today, a…
1. Atheists disqualified from holding office or testifying as witness.
No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any Court.
Arkansas Constitution of 1874, art. 19, § 1.
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