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Friday, May 29, 2020

Law prof joins 'Taps Across America,' honors Texas soldier, attorney, Justice Floyd A. Shumpert

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My longtime colleague, mentor, and friend, Professor J. Thomas Sullivan , joined Monday's "Taps Across America" remembrance (...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Trump litigation in legal education: Come for the car wreck, stay for the seminar

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Coinciding with the U.S. presidential election in the fall semester of 2020, August to November, I'll be teaching a 15-student seminar i...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

Anti-SLAPP slaps justice, but Richard Simmons survives dismissal in privacy suit over tracking device

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Sensational Simmons in 2011 ( Angela George CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Updated Oct. 17, 2023, to correct broken links. In telephone consultation ...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Photo is 'copy,' court has to explain to city, police in state record access case under Arkansas FOIA

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Professor Robert. E. Steinbuch at the University of Arkansas Little Rock reports a startling case under the Arkansas Freedom of Informati...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Talk traces 'nuisance' from King Henry I to COVID-19

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Yesterday I had the privilege to present in a lecture series (virtually) at Jagiellonian University (UJ) on the tort of nuisance in Amer...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

First Amendment right of access to court records is alive and kicking in electronic era

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Developments in the First Amendment right of access to court records were on the menu this afternoon for a continuing legal education pro...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Report from a Social Distance Week 8: Speaking of Football, Magic, and Beer ...

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Del's is a Rhode Island tradition.  ( Photo by Lady Ducayne CC BY-NC 2.0 .) This will be my last weekly report for a while.  I'...
Friday, May 15, 2020

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Posted May 15, 2020. To settle a pandemic-related financial crisis at UMass Dartmouth, law faculty are not receiving research compen...

Legal attacks on lockdown mount; R.I. Governor's time will run out, report warns

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Persons entering Rhode Island remain subject to 14-day quarantine in the present phase 1 of reopening. Photo by Taber Andrew Bain CC...