User-Created Clip by tgrane October 13, 2020 2020-10-13T09:22:40-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a87/1602604246.jpgDuring the second day of her confirmation ...

The First District Court of Appeal recently struck down a Florida law that prohibited people from openly carrying firearms in public. The court held that section 790.053 violated the Second Amendment ...

With debates over the application of stare decisis taking center stage in recent Supreme Cout arguments regarding the viability of Chevron deference—an issue which we will likely revisit in June—it ...

This article examines the recent Court of Appeals decision that addresses whether the plaintiff was engaged in the type of "repairing" activity that is covered by Labor Law §240(1). The case should be ...

After two Supreme Court confirmation hearings in quick succession, Americans now know more about the legal principle of stare decisis than perhaps they ever wanted to. Yet according to three of its ...

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When the Supreme Court ruled last week that an Alabama redistricting map violated the Voting Rights Act — thus declining to strike down some remaining parts of the VRA — headlines branded the decision ...

Latin for to stand by things decided. It's the legal principle that judges use to base decisions on earlier ones. When it comes up at confirmation hearings, it's often in reference to abortion rights ...