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An Interesting Use of the Word Award 22 Jun 2013 | 11:08 am
In Respublica versus Chapman, 1 Dall. 53 (1781), the Chief Justice asked the defendant “why execution should not be awarded against him.” Never occurred to me that an award could be a bad thing. Asid...
Respublica versus Abraham Carlisle 20 Jun 2013 | 10:56 pm
Respublica v. Carlisle, 1 U.S. 35 (1778) was a high treason case decided in the midst of the American Revolution by the Court of Oyer and Terminer at Philadelphia. The indictment accused the defendant...
Respublica v. Malin 20 Jun 2013 | 01:22 pm
1 Dallas includes a case entitled Respublica versus Malin, which was heard by a Court of Oyer and Terminer. The case is not one you would have encountered in law school. In studying the American Revol...
Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania Before and Since the Revolution 18 Jun 2013 | 02:19 pm
I obtained a copy of Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania Before and Since the Revolution by A. J. Dallas, Esquire. Cited as 1 Dall., the volume provides cases from the Su...
Pay Parking Sign Citing CVC 21113(a) 22 Feb 2013 | 01:12 pm
VISITOR PAY PARKING 8AM TO 4PM MON-FRI 21113(a) CVC California Vehicle Code § 21113(a) states that “[n]o person shall drive any vehicle or animal, nor shall any person stop, park, or leave standing an...
Are Collateral Damages Acceptable in the Administration of the Death Penalty? 5 Oct 2012 | 01:29 am
This November, California voters will face a literal life-or-death decision. Proposition 34, titled “Death Penalty. Initiative Statute,” proposes to repeal the death penalty and replace it with life i...
California Shark Fin Ban 19 May 2012 | 02:19 am
California Fish and Game Code § 2021 set forth the California shark fin ban law. Under the law, “it shall be unlawful for any person to possess, sell, offer for sale, trade or distribute a shark fin.”...
18 USC 1751 18 Nov 2011 | 11:47 am
Today, the FBI filed a criminal complaint with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The FBI was seeking a warrant to arrest Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez for violating 18 U.S.C. Secti...
Another iPhone Antenna Lawsuit 5 Aug 2011 | 06:56 am
On the rumored eve of the iPhone 5 release, I spotted this case–Jethro Magat v. Apple Inc.–in Justia Dockets & Filings. The original complaint was filed on June 23, 2011 with the clerk of the U.S. Di...
NPR Defunding Bill 18 Mar 2011 | 08:30 am
H.R. 1076, which prohibits federal funding of National Public Radio and radio content acquisition, passes the house.
