Sep
28
Goodbye, Mr. SCHIPs
September 28, 2007 | 5 Comments
Last week our Congress took an important step in expanding health care coverage for those who are most vulnerable: Children. The expanded program in question is SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program), a bipartisan initiative that was created in 1997 to insure children in families with incomes too high to receive Medicaid, but too [...]
Sep
25
Granted Cert: Admissibility of Search Incident to Unlawful Arrest
September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Virginia law provides that an officer may not arrest someone detained for a misdemeanor, but must rather rely on a summons and release them. In this case David Moore was stopped on suspicion of driving on a suspended license, he was arrested, and in a subsequent search police found 16 grams of crack cocaine [...]
Sep
23
Habeas Corpus Straight Peaced Out
September 23, 2007 | 2 Comments
Earlier this week, an important vote took place in the Senate regarding the restoration of the “Great Writ” of habeas corpus. Though the vote seems to have flown under the radar somewhat, the implications of Wednesday’s defeat venture far beyond the boundaries of the legal community. As noted in The New York Times, [...]
Sep
20
Jena Six Day of Action
September 20, 2007 | 9 Comments
Last year, at a high-school in Jena, Louisiana, two black teenagers sat under the “white tree” on their campus. As unbelievable as it is that in 2006, at Jena High-school, there was a tree designated by the student body as being white-only, even more disturbing are the events that followed this incident.
The next [...]
Sep
19
Protests, Tasers, and Yearwood
September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment
Over the weekend, thousands of peaceful, anti-war protesters converged on Washington, D.C. in the exercise of their constitutional right to call their government to task.
The media covered the event quite heavily, and what I recall most poignantly from standing in and amongst the crowd, which included Iraq war veterans, was a haunting, and often moving, [...]
Sep
17
Prof. Chemerinsky Signs a Book
September 17, 2007 | 1 Comment
According to the video evidence, Prof. Chemerinsky doesn’t check online to see if signed copies of his books are getting megabucks on eBay. And, he doesn’t follow his sales rank on Amazon (currently ranked #4,222). If you’re a 1L, go buy your copy (or don’t, and let your classmates enjoy the top of the curve).
Well, [...]
Sep
15
Jeremy Gunn Coming to W&M
September 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Get excited! On Monday, Sept. 17th, ACS will host Dr. Jeremy Gunn, the current Director of the ACLU’s Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief and the Senior Fellow for Religion and Human Rights at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University School of Law. He is also a member [...]
Sep
14
A Progressive Vision of Constitutional Interpretation
September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Today, we had the pleasure of hosting two of country’s most respected legal scholars, Erwin Chemerinsky (of Duke) and Pamela Karlan (of Stanford). The event was a kickoff of sorts for the school’s annual Supreme Court Preview and these two speakers didn’t disappoint. The event was entitled, “A Progressive Vision of Constitutional Interpretation,” [...]
Sep
12
Offer and Acceptance
September 12, 2007 | 2 Comments
I might have to brush up on everything Prof. Oman taught me in Contracts class. It seems that our guest of honor this Friday was recently offered to be the dean at UC Irvine’s new law school. After signing a contract and spending time recruiting an all-star board of directors, Chemirinsky was told at an [...]
Sep
9
Banning Bottoms
September 9, 2007 | 1 Comment
Belt sales in Louisiana could soon get a boost. The city counsels of Shreveport and Alexandria recently voted to prohibit individuals from wearing their pants below the waist, joining four other Louisiana cities in banning baggy pants. Depending on the city, violators are subject to fines of up to $200 and may even be required [...]
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