Category: Law

WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Mar 6, 2024 at 10:40 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Wednesday, March 6, SCOTUSblog (Mar. 6, 2024, 10:40 AM), […]

I have written before about the cache associated with a handful of unpublished opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Sure, they aren’t binding, but they can be persuasive. My guess is that the Court’s December 2023 opinion in State v. C.K.D.. No. COA23-204, 2023 WL 8748032, ___ N.C. App. ___, 895 S.E.2d 923 […]

By actively shaping the future of AI in legal interpretation, we can ensure it becomes a force for good, leading to a more just, efficient, and accessible legal system for all. The legal world, traditionally built on precedent and meticulous analysis, is facing a groundbreaking transformation. Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize the way […]

Below is my column in USA Today on the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court to reject the disqualification of former president Donald Trump from the 2024 election. Some Democrats are now seeking to resume the effort through Congress to prevent voters from being able to vote for the leading candidate for the presidency. Here […]

When I was still in single digits, I read The Murder of Robbie Wayne, Age Six. It appeared in condensed form, in Reader’s Digest, on the magazine racks in my primary school library. I probably shouldn’t have read it, realistically, but I’d become—unexpectedly—an advanced reader. My parents often wrote letters requesting permission for me to […]

(Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Poor Ron DeSantis thought he could waltz into the White House by using the state of Florida as a laboratory of Tucker Carlson fever dreams. Don’t believe in COVID? He picked a fight with the cruise lines and… got smacked around in court. Mad at those progressive […]

Attorneys for a group of Berkeley parents say that, since the Hamas attack on Israel in October, students and teachers have begun expressing overtly antisemitic sentiments–sentiments that have led some children to “hide their Jewish identity for fear of reprisal.” A recently-filed federal lawsuit claims that California teachers and education officials tolerated the “severe and […]