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The Citing Slavery Project

C|M|LAW Library

The Citing Slavery Project is the brainchild of Justin Simard , an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University College of Law. 79 (2020)) “Judges cite slavery to explicate the law of contracts, property, evidence, civil procedure, criminal procedure, statutory interpretation, torts, and many other fields.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently O

bankruptcy, class action, trademark, securities, and tort litigation, to the tune of $50 to $100 billion in investments annually. [10] 604C (2021); Nonrecourse Civil Litigation Advance Contracts, Ohio Rev. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2] 2] Virtually nonexistent in the patent space in the U.S.

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Path To Well-Being In Law: Episode 18: Janet Stearns

ALPS

This is one of the things I say to students all the time, “You’re coming to us not only to learn about contracts and torts, you’re coming to learn how to become a future professional. Where it’s like, “Oh my gosh, that torts professor’s a real person.” And this really sucks right now.

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Bluebook Rule 10.7.1&The Citing Slavery Project

C|M|LAW Library

91 (1855) (enslaved person at issue) The rule was influenced by lobbying of Michigan State University law professor Justin Simard who is the founder of the Citing Slavery Project. Sandford , 60 U.S. (19 393 (1857) (enslaved party), superseded by constitutional amendment, U.S. XIV Wall v. Wall , 30 Miss.

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Whitmer Defends Democratic Rep Over Violent Rhetoric As Other Democrats Seek diGenova’s Disbarment For His Comments

JonathanTurley

Yet, in Michigan, Gov. The Michigan Attorney General has condemned both Johnson as well as those who threatened her in the past. She was referring to the highly publicized voter-fraud hearing with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and having someone close to her contract Covid-19. Gretchen Whitmer and other Democrats have defended Rep.

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Holding prison officials accountable for COVID measures

SCOTUSBlog

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order requiring the states department of corrections to follow guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control to stem the spread of COVID-19 in Michigans prisons. But the U.S.

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