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SCOTUS Doesn’t Care How You Kill A Person

by Austin Sarat

  • June 30, 2015

The Supreme Court just guaranteed that America will continue its long-held tradition of botched executions. Today’s decision in Glossip v Gross, upholding the use of midazolam in lethal injections, is in keeping with the court’s…

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Creative License: The Political Art of DonkeyHotey

by Stephanie Schroeder

  • December 5, 2014

I learned about the caricatures by DonkeyHotey when I saw one of the artist’s creations on the Constitutional Law Profs Blog. Someone remarked on an illustration of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and I was…

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in the Law

by Life of the Law

  • October 27, 2014

Each week, we bring you updates on the legal world. Looking ahead… A nurse returning from West Africa after treating Ebola patients is going to court over the quarantine rules she faced after returning. She claims…

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In Supreme Court News: Acquitted By A Jury? The Judge Can Sentence You Anyway.

by Gilad Edelman

  • October 24, 2014

If a jury convicts you of one crime in federal court, but finds you innocent of a more serious one, can the judge sentence you for the more serious one anyway? Yes. And last week…

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