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Trials of the Century: Bush v. Gore
Let’s just hope that we don’t have eight people only voting for president. The 2000 Presidential Election—where Bush beat Gore, taking 271 Electoral College Votes to Gore’s 266, but losing the popular vote by about 500,000 votes (at least officially) —brought us Bush v. Gore. An automatic machine recount revealed that the margin of victory
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Trials of the Century: The Lindbergh Baby Abduction
Charles Lindbergh Mural – San Diego Airport Charles Lindbergh, a completely unknown air-mail pilot, flew his way into history. He was the first person to complete a solo, nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. When he landed in Paris, a crowd of about 150,000 people were there to greet him. When he finally
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Trials of the Century: Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss (far right) in the waning days of WWII. Alger Hiss was, depending upon whom you believe, a Communist spy burrowed deeply in the Department of State or, alternatively, one of the earliest victims of the Red Scare that tore through the United States — promoted most ferociously by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy —
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Trials of the Century: The Murder of Willie Earle
Willie Earle, a black man in his mid twenties, got picked up on a murder charge. The day before, someone—it could have been Earle, but that doesn’t matter—robbed a cab driver and stabbed him to death. By the evening of Earle’s first day in the county jail, a large crowd of about fifty men, mostly
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Intellectual Property Law and the Vulnerable Consumer
“Nobody’s more frustrated than me.” “I am running a business.” These statements were made by Mylan Health CEO Heather Bresch regarding the recent firestorm over Mylan’s role in the dizzying upward spiral of prices for medication, some of which — including the medication at issue, Epi Pen — can make the difference between life and
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Judicial Clerkships: The What, The Why, And The How
Business Insider has ranked law schools by the proportion of their class that go on to clerk for federal judges. Here’s what you should think about when looking at such lists. 1. Who should clerk? A clerkship is a great opportunity for a lot of writing experience, training, and connections. Most clerks go on to
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Melania Trump: Copyright Infringer?
The irony of Melania Trump’s now well-documented plagiarism of Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention speech is plain to see. Without getting too political about it, Donald Trump elbowed his way into national politics as the leader of the birther movement, trumpeting (pun intended) the demonstrably false claim that Barack Obama was not born in
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Pokemon goes to court. Maybe.
So, Nintendo invented a mobile game where players wander around outside with their faces buried in their phones, often in unfamiliar surroundings, and, quite possibly on private property. Hey, what could go wrong? Being in an industry tightly tied in with the practice of law, Blueprint writ large and yours truly writ not quite as
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