Members of the state and federal judiciary face a slightly different problem when it comes to the rule of law. Each day judges are asked to interpret and apply legal principles that defy clear exposition. Terms like "due process," "reasonable care," and "undue influence" are not self-...
Rule 34(b) are dramatic in the way document requests and objections will be handled in federal practice. Indeed, as Chief Justice John Roberts aptly put it, “[t]he amendments may not look like a big deal at first glance, but they are.”See2015 Year-End Report on the...
It might be claimed that the surge of technological advancements, such as AI, will likely bring significant opportunities. Daly points out that AI applications in the tax system have the potential to enhance rule of law with the improving of consistency, transparency and compliance with tax adminis...
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Forty-eight states, the District of Columbia and the federal government all have laws that make it possible to convict a person of felony murder, even if they don’t kill anyone. Hawaii and Kentucky are the only places that do not have this rule on the books. The felony murder rule has...
federal civil justice system. Yet such a system both promises to promote and threatens to undermine each of the three principles that Postema claims are entailed by his understanding of the rule of law—namely, sovereignty, equality, and fidelity. Realizing recourse thus requires confronting ...
The judgment given by the Federal Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl. Warren drafted in Miranda case is also Warren one of the most controversial decisions made by judges. There are also many people blamed the Miranda rule with justice reform-style figures. ...
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regarding the term "frame or receiver" and definition of "firearm," exceeded its authority. A federal district court in Texas sided with the challengers, finding that the Gun Control Act doesn't "cover weapon parts, or aggregations of weapon parts," regardless of whether they can be assembled...
Nor did it make clear how its ruling — which arose from one of Trump’s two federal criminal cases — pertains to state-level cases like Trump’s hush money prosecution. “There are several murky aspects of the court’s ruling, but one that is particularly relevant to this case is the...