The Supreme Court issued three opinions this morning. The first is Maples v. Thomas (10-63). Maples was convicted of murder in Alabama and sentenced to death. He sought post-conviction relief in Alabama state courts as represented by two pro bono…
Posts Tagged ‘Federal’
New Legal Skills Textbooks from Carolina Academic Press
13
Jan
Federal Legal Research by Mary Garvey Algero, Spencer L. Simons, Suzanne E. Rowe, Scott Childs, Sarah E. Ricks Forthcoming January 2012 Federal Legal Research explains how to conduct research in the U.S. Constitution and in federal cases, statutes, and administrative…
Supreme Court Action: Brady Violations, Arbitration, Federal Tort Claims, and Habeas Relief
11
Jan
The United States Supreme Court issued its first opinions of 2012 with four released yesterday and three today. The first of these is Smith v. Cain (10-8145), where the Court considered whether statements that were undisclosed to the defense in…
Federal Judge Offers Ideas To Reform the Teaching of Law
09
Jan
Judge José A. Cabranes of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was the lunchtime speaker at the Association of American Law Schools’ gathering last Friday. He was pretty blunt about his view of the current state of law schools, suggesting…
“If we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we launch the Library of Congress into cyberspace?” YES WE SCAN Petition
05
Jan
Carl Malamud (Public Resources.Org) and John Podesta (Center for American Progress) have launched a petition drive calling upon the federal government to create a Federal Scanning Commission. To date, thinking about digitization has been piecemeal. Individual agencies have thought about…
“If we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we launch the Library of Congress into cyberspace?” YES WE SCAN Petition
05
Jan
Carl Malamud (Public Resources.Org) and John Podesta (Center for American Progress) have launched a petition drive calling upon the federal government to create a Federal Scanning Commission. To date, thinking about digitization has been piecemeal. Individual agencies have thought about…
How to Challenge an Illegal Vehicle Stop. Motion to Suppress Explained, Recommended Form.
05
Jan
Tweet Illegal Stop? Challenge it! No matter what state you live in, Federal Law controls whether or not a stop of a vehicle by police is legal. If the police stop a vehicle illegally, the evidence obtained thereafter cannot be … Continue reading
How to Challenge an Illegal Vehicle Stop. Motion to Suppress Explained, Recommended Form.
05
Jan
Tweet Illegal Stop? Challenge it! No matter what state you live in, Federal Law controls whether or not a stop of a vehicle by police is legal. If the police stop a vehicle illegally, the evidence obtained thereafter cannot be … Continue reading
What Factors in 2012 Will Be Examined That Can be Viewed as a Federal Public Policy Failure to Provide Affordable Civil Legal Services to the Electorate?
27
Dec
2011 may go down in history as the year the ABA-Legal Academy cartel controversy moved beyond the law prof blogging reformers to receive major legal media and, more importantly, major general media attention by some opinion leaders that has caught…
Free and Reliable e-Text Downloads for the New Federal Rules of Evidence (as well as 2012 editions of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Criminal Procedure)
06
Dec
The Restyled Federal Rules of Evidence, which became effective on December 1, 2011, are “[s]impler. Easier to read. Easier to understand. These [characterizations] describe the Federal Rules of Evidence after their first top-to-bottom restyling since they were drafted and enacted…
