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Limiting a defendant’s ability to confer with counsel during a murder trial

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. Over the past couple of conferences, the Supreme Court has continued to clear out the rolls of relisted cases. The court denied review on March 24 in Franklin v. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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Justices file annual financial disclosures – Thomas and Alito delay

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Share It has been just over two months since ProPublica revealed that Justice Clarence Thomas had not included over two decades’ worth of frequent luxury travel hosted by Harlan Crow, a Dallas billionaire, on the annual financial disclosures that the Supreme Court justices file each year.

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Fourth Circuit Rules Against North Carolina State Professor Who Spoke Out Against Diversity Policies

JonathanTurley

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has delivered a body blow to free speech as well as academic freedom in a ruling against a statistics professor at North Carolina State University. Professor Stephen Porter objected to what he considered the lower standards used by his school to hire minority faculty.

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Liability for undelivered mail and the chilling effect of subpoenas

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. First, as I pledged in my last post , I am only too happy to eat crow after predicting that the court would not take one-time relist Villarreal v. A short explanation of relists is available here. But the U.S.

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Path To Well-Being In Law Podcast: Episode 9 – Chief Justice Paul Reiber

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Reiber was appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court as an Associate Justice in October 2003 and Chief Justice in December 2004. In 2010 he served as Chair of the Vermont Commission on Judicial Operations resulting in historic legislation that unified the state court system. I was not a trial judge before I came to the Supreme Court.

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“Take Them to the Slaughterhouse”: Trustee Calls for “Culling” Faculty Members

JonathanTurley

I also defended the free speech rights of University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis, who defended the murder of a conservative protester and said that he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. Loomis was later made Director of Graduate Studies of History at Rhode Island ). It is that easy.

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Can You Guess? Professor Asks Students What Group is Known for “Violence, Deceit, Irresponsibility, and a Lack of Remorse”

JonathanTurley

I also defended the free speech rights of University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis, who defended the murder of a conservative protester and said that he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. Loomis was later made Director of Graduate Studies of History at Rhode Island ). It is that easy.