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[Civil Unions]: When Reasonable Isn't Reasonable
Doug Laycock is nothing if not reasonable. But sometimes reasonable is not right. The most important area of disagreement he addresses, and the one most central to this discussion, concerns the appropriate breadth of the religious exemption that would give...

BEWARE THE REQUEST TO ADMIT
Putting the final touches on my response to a lengthy Rule 216 Request to Admit filed by the defendant. In reading some of the recent Illinois cases discussing what constitutes a proper response - came across some helpful information...

A stop and a detention without reasonable suspicion suppressed
Defendant's coming out of the shadows and getting into a vehicle is indicative of no crime, so his stop was invalid. Leroy v. State, 2008 Fla. App. LEXIS 8097(Fla. App. 1 Dist. June 2, 2008): The State is unable to meet its burden...

"Reasonable" Employers; "Reasonable" Employees
Lisa Bernt (Visiting Scholar, JFK Sch. Gov't) has just posted on SSRN her article (forthcoming 77 UMKC L. Rev.) Finding the Right Jobs for the Reasonable Person in Employment Law. Here's the abstract: This article examines the reasonable person's role(s)...

CA8: May I see your driver's license or your ID is a request not a command
Defendant was riding an interstate bus which stopped at the MSP airport, and officers boarded the bus to talk to passengers. Defendant talked with the officers and refused to consent to a search of his bag...

Imminently Reasonable
Reader Thomas Asch pointed me to a recent court decision that said something was ?imminently reasonable,? when it clearly meant ?eminently reasonable.? (The first reference to ?imminently reasonable? in the case was in quotation marks, but the second was not...