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SCOTUS Press Office Doesn't Proofread Student Newspapers
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Lewis and Clark Law School Dean Robert Klonoff has an impressive résumé. According to the school’s website, he graduated from Yale Law School, clerked for the...
Salinas v. Texas: Is Silence Golden?
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Three years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Berghuis v. Thompkins that a criminal suspect must affirmatively invoke his right to refuse questions. The...
US v. Davila: Can a Judge Advise a Defendant to Go to the Cross?
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Anthony Davila pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by obtaining false tax refunds. But he didn’t really want to plead guilty. He actually wanted a...
Will the SCOTUS Actually Resolve Genetic Patents This Time?
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The Supreme Court will start its final sitting of the 2012 Term with what might be the most controversial intellectual property case of the year, Association...
Friends With Benefits: Who Are the SCOTUS Amicus All-Stars?
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Adam Chandler is something of a certiorari numbers buff. When Chandler isn't hard at work as an attorney in the Appellate Section of the Antitrust Division of...
Death, Taxes, and SCOTUS: The April Oral Argument List
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Benjamin Franklin (paraphrasing Christopher Bullock) said “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” This April, there is one...