Criminal Law

The Problem with Polygamy
Polygamy is a hotly contested practice and open to widespread misunderstandings. This practice is defined as a relationship between either one husband and multiple wives or one wife and multiple husbands...

Polygamy Scholarship
Polygamy is a "hot topic" in family law scholarship (as well as in the popular media). A few great looking articles with their SSRN abstracts: "'They Ain't Whites; They're Mormons': An Illustrated History of Polygamy as Race Treason" MARTHA M...

Brooks on Polygamy
Thom Brooks (Newcastle University - Newcastle Law School) has posted The Problem with Polygamy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Polygamy is a hotly contested practice and open to widespread misunderstandings...

Maggie Gallagher: Parents Rights Trump Polygamy
Maggie Gallagher has this commentary on Townhall. She writes: . . . The Texas polygamy case prompted a wide variety of public reactions. As someone who is about as opposed to polygamy as it is possible to be, my first reaction was: How can the government take small children away from their mothers? The right of [...

Around the web, August 19
Judge Ward has attracted so many patent plaintiffs to his E.D. Tex. courtroom that its "rocket docket" is slowing down [Texas Lawyer] Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell picks Houston chum Kenneth Bailey of Bailey Perrin Bailey to go after Johnson...

How they got that job, cont'd
"Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel cited experience as the main reason for hiring Houston-based Bailey Perrin Bailey (BPB) to sue three Big Pharma companies." It had absolutely nothing to do with the major political donations BPB founding partner Don Bailey...