Now that your taxes are done…
2013 is a banner year for legal anniversaries. In January, it was 40 years since Roe v. Wade (410 US 113). March marked 50 years since Gideon v. Wainwright (372 U.S. 335). In July, we’ll celebrate...
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Filibuster: Ms. Davis goes to Austin
You may have seen the news, or watched a few hours of it live, but Sen. Wendy Davis, a State Senator in Texas, almost single-handedly derailed an abortion-related bill that looked set to pass. Because...
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The Affordable Care Act in Court (again)
When I got to work Tuesday morning I saw a news story that a Federal District Court in Wisconsin had rejected a challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s provision of healthcare subsidies to congressional...
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Elections in court
“Scarcely any political question arises in the United States which is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question”. Alexis de Tocqueville made that statement in his seminal work, Democracy...
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Amending the FRCP: How Did These Rules Get Here Anyway?
There’s been a great deal of discussion in the legal world recently about the Judicial Conference of the United States’ proposed changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Despite the fact that...
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A major win for ‘None of the above’
(this post originally appeared on June 18, 2014. It has been updated to reflect newly introduced legislation) A number of states recently held their primaries for the November mid-term elections....
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The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act
In 2011, recognizing that some states had begun publishing some legal material exclusively online, and responding to reports issued by the American Association of Law Libraries, the Uniform Law...
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Data Security and Attorney Ethics
With data (in)security showing up more frequently in the headlines, with occasionally costly results, attorneys have to be concerned with their duty to protect client data from intrusion. Given that...
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Popular Democracy and Capital Punishment in Nebraska
2015 saw fewer individuals executed and fewer individuals sentenced to death in the United States than any year since 1991 and the early 1970s (pre-Furman v. Georgia), respectively. It was the 6th...
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Searching for Justice Neil Gorsuch: A Primer
After being sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch sat for oral argument for the first time today. Readers of the Legal Solutions Blog may want to learn a bit about Justice Gorsuch, so here...
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