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New Rules Have SPACs Down, But Not Dead

Intelligize Blog

The stock market killed it first, but now the SEC has picked up a shovel and buried SPACs for good,” pronounced the Michigan Journal of Economics. Bloomberg Law offered a retrospective detailing the “boom, gloom, and doom” of SPACs. Axios explored the factors that “ took down the SPAC boom.”

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Justices to consider appropriate standard for harmless-error review of state convictions in federal habeas proceedings

SCOTUSBlog

On appeal, Davenport argued that his conviction should be reversed because of this constitutional violation, but the Michigan appellate courts determined that the error was harmless. The Michigan trial and intermediate appellate courts relied on this latter testimony to hold that the error was harmless.

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A search for coherence in the interplay between AEDPA and Brecht

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument Tuesday in Brown v. Davenport to consider whether a Michigan prisoner, whose constitutional right to a fair trial was violated when he was visibly shackled before the jury, is entitled to habeas corpus relief. That would make the resulting state court decision unreasonable under AEDPA.

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In rejecting a prisoner’s post-conviction claim, court plants seeds for narrowing habeas relief

SCOTUSBlog

The answer to that question turned on the relationship between a Supreme Court decision and a congressional statute. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit had found Brecht satisfied and, as a result, held that Davenport need not also satisfy AEDPA to obtain relief because, according to language in two Supreme Court cases ( Fry v.

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Data on Choice-of-Court Clause Enforcement in US

Conflict of Laws

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. This feeling of pity is compounded when I imagine this same lawyer trying to advise her client as to whether a choice-of-court clause will be enforced by a court in the United States.

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Arthrex on Remand: Commissioner of Patents Drew Hirshfeld and the Problem of Shadow Acting Officials

Patently O

Editors note – I invited Professor Nina Mendelson (University of Michigan Law School) to author a guest post after reading her 2020 Admin. Law Review article titled “ The Permissibility of Acting Officials: May the President Work Around Senate Confirmation? 1) The litigation background. — Dennis Crouch.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

It can be next to impossible to see how law enforcement — in league with paid, self-styled “experts” — spreads new, often unproven methods. The system is at its most opaque when prosecutors know evidence is unfit for court but choose to game the rules, hoping judges and juries will believe it and vote to convict. . … Make it sing!”.