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In all of the recent hubbub within my practice — including some travel — I neglected to acknowledge the exciting surrounding the Food Not Bombs appeal before an en banc panel of the Eleventh Circuit.  Following a good result from the District Court that granted injunctive relief versus the City of Halifax’s ordinance that sev

Full credit to Orrin Kerr at SCOTUS Blog:  http://www.scotusblog.com/2011/02/the-strange-case-of-ashcroft-v-al-kidd/: The Petitioner in this case is John Ashcroft, the former Attorney General, who is represented by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The Respondent is Abdullah Al-Kidd, a person who was detained under the material witness statute,

Special mention the Adjunct Law Professors’ Blog for calling attention to this recent federal decision. Honestly, I have a bit of a problem with this from a constitutional perspective.  I believe that this does raise serious due process questions.  I cannot embrace this differentiation between the rights of custodial vs. non-custodi

Acknowledgment to Simon Lazarus and ACSBlog:  http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/node/18344. Next, a quick apology to my burgeoning group of blog readers:  for the past week, I have been working non-stop on several issues that temporarily detracted from my blog posts.  I am hopeful that this delay on new postings is an irregular occurrenc

Here’s what the NLRB sent out about its revised  website: The National Labor Relations Board today announced the launch of a new agency website that is more flexible, timely, easy to navigate, and useful to a variety of audiences, from practitioners to first-time visitors. The redesigned and re-imagined site, at www.nlrb.gov, builds