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The Volokh Conspiracy - Ben Barros on O'Connor, Midkiff, and Kelo:
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October 12, 2005 at 9:25am. Ben Barros on O'Connor, Midkiff, and Kelo:. By Ben Barros looks at the SCOTUS conference notes on Midkiff and Justice O'Connor's effort to retreat in Kelo from the sweeping language she used there. An excerpt:. I assume that by "Arizona ranchers cocktail parties" you mean "Arizona ranchers ice chest full of bud light" parties. Dave Hardy ( mail. 1 At Arizona rancerhs' parties, Bud Light is for wussies. There aren't many real ranchers like Harry Day left in Arizona. I'd say tha...
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The Volokh Conspiracy - The Troubling Case of Cory Maye:
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December 13, 2005 at 12:07pm. The Troubling Case of Cory Maye:. Points to an emerging blog movement concerning the very troubling case of Cory Maye, who is on death row in Mississippi for killing a police officer. The remarkable part of the case is that it seems pretty likely that Maye was acting in self-defense. The police broke into Maye's apartment at night while executing a warrant for drugs, but apparently they had the wrong apartment. Specifically,. The police didn't realize that. That's when I fir...
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The Volokh Conspiracy - How Federal is Star Trek's Federation?
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September 19, 2007 at 2:08am. How Federal is Star Trek's Federation? While teaching my Federalism seminar. Recently, I made an analogy to Star Trek's United Federation of Planets. That got me thinking about the role of federalism in Star Trek. How much power does the Federation's central government have, and how much is left to the individual planets? Does the central government's Star Fleet have a monopoly of military force, or do Vulcan and other planets have their own local forces? Taken literally, th...