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Over at The Situationist (where I have blogged in the past), the staff has posted an essay considering the intersection of two topics: the...

From Law.com : The California Supreme Court today said it would answer the standing question in the Proposition 8 same-sex marriage appeal a...

Thanks all for the helpful comments, and thanks especially to the DUI attorneys who seem so interested in the intersection between qualified...

In my last post , I explored a few of the problems with the interaction between Pearson and Iqbal : that a civil rights plaintiff is caug...

In my previous posts ( Part I and Part II ), I explained why the Supreme Court's recent decisions in Pearson and Iqbal are problematic ...

In this post I'll continue with an overview of my forthcoming article , Pearson, Iqbal, and Procedural Judicial Activism . In Part I , ...

Thanks again to the staff at Blackbook and the commenters for the welcome. I want to start off by summarizing, in a few parts, my latest art...

"Transgender" has become a broad term that applies to people who identify and/or express themselves with a gender other than their...

Recent legislation seeks to overturn the infamous Bell Atlantic v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal cases responsible for holding plaintiffs ...

In 1963, the Supreme Court unanimously decided in Gideon v. Wainwright , 372 U.S. 335 (1963) that the Sixth Amendment gives all low-income d...