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Someone Placed a Record-Setting Super Bowl Bet From His Phone
A staggering 31.4 million people are expected to place bets on the Super Bowl. They won’t travel two hours to make that wager. Most of […]
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Rights and Wrongs of Replacing Traditional Affirmative Action with Preferences for Descendants of Slaves
Two cases challenging college admissions based on race were heard by the Supreme Court. We don’t have any certainty, but it appears highly probable that […]
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SSRN Removes Academic Paper Due to Defamation Claim
Ann Lipton, Tulane’s renowned corporate lawyer scholar, recently published “Capital Discrimination”, a paper that examines the effects of gender discrimination on business disputes. After she […]
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Seattle’s Soda Tax Has Been Great for…Beer Sales?
new studyDo you pour cold beer? on Seattle’s soda tax. Published in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONEIt reveals the fact that I have called this city […]
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Life Gets Better for Sports Bettors
On November 30, English soccer teams Newcastle United and Norwich City played to a 1–1 draw in a Premier League matchup. Although the match was […]
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Today in Supreme Court History: February 12, 1965
2/12/1965: Justice Brett Kavanaugh celebrates his birthday. Justice Brett Kavanaugh Reason.com’s original post, Today in Supreme Court History: 02/12/65 appeared first here
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When Philosophers Go Bad
Matthew Harris was an apparently schizophrenia-prone former UCLA philosophy professor who threatened to shut down UCLA for one day last week. But, I did find […]
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Guest Post by Adam Schulman on KBJ’s Opinion in Ross v. Lockheed Martin
NBC News published a U.W. Clemon wrote to President Biden as a former federal Judge. Clemon asked President Biden to not nominate Ketanji brown Jackson […]
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Funny Oral Argument Moments
We started in Persuasion with clips from oral arguments. The first was the well-known “orthogonal” trade at 21.54. Briscoe v. Virginia (2010)—instructive, but also a bit amusing. […]
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Mormon Missionary Training, Insufficiently Feminine Haircuts, and the First Amendment
Start at Markowski v. BYUJudge Jill Parrish, D. Utah, pronounced the verdict yesterday: Utah is home to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints […]