Litigation

Click It Or Ticket
Just so you know, Riverside WILL be participating in the annual crackdown on seatbelt scofflaws. The campaign will run May 19 through June 1. UPDATED: KCPD joins the Click It Or Ticket Juggernaut, too.

Conservative 527 group fails to live up to its expectations
The New York Times reports: The conservative group Freedom’s Watch, headlined by two former senior White House officials, had been expected to be a deep-pocketed juggernaut in this year’s presidential election, heralded by supporters on the right as an aggressive...

What will be the Next Constitutional Amendment
It's been 37 years since the last contemporaneously proposed and ratified constitutional amendment (I'm setting the aside the 27th Amendment, with it's tortured 200-year history). There have been only two comparably long periods in our history without an amendment, the 61-year period between the 12th and the 13th Amendments, and the 43-year period between the 15th and the 16th Amendment...

Originalism and the Second Amendment
Yesterday I moderated a debate on the Second Amendment at UCLA Law between Alan Gura, the attorney representing Heller before the Supreme Court, and Jack Rakove, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who filed an amicus brief on behalf of the District of Columbia in DC v...

Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo! Yawn.
In the wee hours of the morning, software giant Microsoft announced a $44.6 billion unsolicited offer to buy ailing online giant Yahoo! The goal is to combine the assets of the two companies so that Internet advertising juggernaut Google faces...

Tainted Heparin Now ‘Clearly’ Linked to 81 Deaths: FDA
Washington, DC: The tainted heparin juggernaut just keeps getting bigger: it was revealed this morning that the US Food and Drug Administration puts the death toll linked to tainted heparin at 81 deaths, and the country count is up to 11.

Texas, USA
alleging the Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003 violates several provisions of the Constitution.