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The morning read for Thursday, September 21

SCOTUSBlog

Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court can let West Point keep affirmative action (Noah Feldman, Washington Post) I teach constitutional law. Supreme Court arguments have gotten way too long.

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Calling New Patent Law Professors

Patently O

Every year, law schools advertise open faculty positions via a Faculty Appointments Register sponsored by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). Note that top ranked law schools rarely advertise for particular subject matter areas. by Dennis Crouch. The new hire then starts work the following summer.

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Who’ll Shoot First? How Relaxed Gun Rules Fuel a ‘Small Arms Race’

The Crime Report

A handful of high-profile cases has sparked a larger public debate about the impact of self-defense laws. According to law professors Guha Krishnamurthi of the University of Oklahoma College of law and Peter Salib of the University of Houston Law Center, this public concern is warranted.

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SCOTUS Limits Foreign Reach of Trademark Law

Constitutional Law Reporter

Hetronic sued Abitron in the Western District of Oklahoma for trademark violations under two related provisions of the Lanham Act, both of which prohibit the unauthorized use in commerce of protected marks when that use is likely to cause confusion. .

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SCOTUS Kicks Off New Term With …

Constitutional Law Reporter

The term refers guns that are assembled in parts and, therefore, difficult to trace by law enforcement due to their lack serial numbers and transfer records. Oklahoma: The death penalty case has the support of Oklahoma’s attorney general who agrees that Gossip should be granted a new trial. Williams v. Maryland and Napue v.

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Court blocks pathway for federal prisoners to raise legal innocence claims

SCOTUSBlog

Fast forward to 1996: In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Congress passed AEDPA. The statute replaced the habeas remedy with the motion to vacate, unless the “remedy by motion is inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of [the prisoner’s] detention.” AEDPA left the saving clause intact.

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Supreme Court Sides With Police in Two Qualified Immunity Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

Although the Court’s case law does not require a case directly on point for a right to be clearly established, “existing precedent must have placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debate.” City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma v. City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma v. Bond In City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma v.

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