Legal Commentary

Upcoming Tenth Circuit Oral Arguments
The Tenth Circuit will be holding oral arguments this week in Denver, CO; at the University of Kansas on Oct...

Tenth Amendment: More State-Specific Sites, Commentary and Media Coverage
From the top: Pennsylvania State Rep. Sam Rohrer does an excellent job of explaining some of the reasoning behind why several States are pushing for Tenth Amendment resolutions...

Judge McConnell from Tenth Circuit to Stanford
From a press release from the Tenth Circuit today, comes this important news: Circuit Judge Michael W...

Third time's (almost) the charm in Tenth Circuit sentencing case
In an interesting decision in a case that may seem to the Tenth Circuit to be never-ending, a panel today affirms an above-guideline sentence in US v...

Tenth Circuit Moves To Electronic Filing
A General Order from the Tenth Circuit (March 18, 2009) marks the Circuit's move to electronic filing...

"The government?s argument that it honored its promises reeks of the lamp."
The title of this post is a sentence from an interesting Tenth Circuit opinion issued yesterday in US v...

Parody is a Protected Form of Speech
Targets of criticism seek to shut down Internet sites that poke fun

It is my understanding that the 6th Amendment requires, that if you can't afford a lawyer in a criminal case, the Court must provide a lawyer in your defense at no charge to you. However, in a civil case no such protecti
That is not entirely true, even in the case of criminal cases. The court will pr...

What are the differences in the jurisdictions of State and Federal Courts?
U.S. Supreme Court cases must be followed by all courts nationwide. State Suprem...

Specialty Lamp International
Recalls Counterfeit Circuit Breakers