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  • July 8, 2011 | The Associated Press

    Texas executes Mexican despite White House plea

    HUNTSVILLE, Texas AP - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block Texas from executing a Mexican citizen despite a White House-backed appeal that claimed the case could affect other foreigners a

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  • May 18, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice

    Edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat, New York University Press, New York, N.Y. 349 pages What do we mean when we say that we have a "ju

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  • July 27, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Railroaded

    On the day Ellen Reasonover walked out of Chillicothe Correctional Center in northwest Missouri last August, Cheryl Pilate and Charles Rogers were there to meet her. Squeezing into Rogers's co

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  • United States v. Klump

    Publication Date: 2008-08-12
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    Date Filed: 2008-08-04
    Court: 2nd Cir.
    Judge: McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 06-0339-cr

    Argued: June 2, 2008Before: McLAUGHLIN, SACK, and LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.Harold Klump appeals from a judgment of conviction entered on January 11, 2006, following a jury trial in the United

  • June 28, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

    State v. Ways

    N.J. Supreme Court A-23 September Term 2003; Supreme Court; opinion by Albin, J.; decided June 22, 2004. On certification to the Appellate Division. DDS No. 14-1-7176b

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  • In re Rafter Seven Ranches, L.P.

    Publication Date: 2008-11-07
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    Date Filed: 2008-11-04
    Court: 10th Cir.
    Judge: Seymour, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 07-3091

    PUBLISHBefore BRISCOE, SEYMOUR and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.Rafter Seven Ranches, L.P. (Rafter Seven) appeals a Bankruptcy Appeal Panel (BAP) decision upholding the bankruptcy court's rejection of

  • Boy Scouts Of America v. Dale

    Publication Date: 2000-09-27
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    Date Filed: 2000-06-28
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
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    Case Number: No. 99-699

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. Rehnquist, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas, JJ., joined. St

  • United States v. Brewer

    Publication Date: 2009-04-10
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    Date Filed: 2009-04-02
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Posner, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 08-3257

    ARGUED JANUARY 27, 2009Before POSNER, ROVNER, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.The defendant appeals from his conviction for illegal possession of a gun, for which he was sentenced to six years in p

  • April 4, 2003 | National Law Journal

    First Amendment's woof and warp

    From the legal frontiers of free speech and flag burning, the Ohio Court of Appeals sends two late-March messages. First, barking is protected speech under the First Amendment, at leas

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  • October 11, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Foreclosure freeze could undermine housing market

    Karl Case, the co-creator of a widely watched housing market index, was upbeat three weeks ago. Mulling the economy while at a meeting at a resort near the Berkshires, Case thought the makings of a

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