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Forum: A Post-Shelby Strategy: Exposing Discriminatory Intent in Voting Rights Litigation

Intentional discrimination claims—brought where appropriate and supported by the evidence—force an appraisal of the true motives underlying laws passed

Forum: The Myth of Prosecutorial Accountability After Connick v. Thompson: Why Existing Professional Responsibility Measures Cannot Protect Against Prosecutorial Misconduct

blood evidence from his defense attorneys. Thompson had sued the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office based on a failure-to-train theory, arguing

Forum: The New Electronic Discovery Rules: A Place for Employee Privacy?

ordered UBS bear seventy-five percent of the costs of restoring the other seventy-plus tapes. Restoration revealed damning evidence of spoliation—the

Competing Exclusionary Rules in Multistate Investigations: Resolving Conflicts of State Search-and-Seizure Law

evidence of the State A crime. The search was unlawful and the evidence would be excluded under State B’s constitution, but the search was lawful under

Nondelegation at the Founding

messy, precluding any kind of categorical conclusion. But when fairly evaluated, there is almost no evidence unambiguously supporting the proposition that

Forum: In Defense of Guantanamo Bay

variety of ways, and evidence and information useful in assessing whether there is a prosecutable case may exist in a multitude of domestic and

Forum: Building an Umbrella in a Rainstorm: The New Vote Denial Litigation Since Shelby County

their approaches differ in some respects. This Essay describes tension among the courts of appeals as to the necessity of (1) statistical evidence

The Strategies of Anticompetitive Common Ownership

firms. Their concern rests on empirical evidence that such common concentrated ownership is associated with higher prices and lower output. This evidence

Forum: Dominant Digital Platforms: Is Antitrust Up to the Task?

evidence is needed to establish monopoly power. In litigation, the platforms no doubt would argue that competition is “just a click away.” However

Why Protect Religious Freedom?

the standards of evidence and reasoning we everywhere else expect to constitute constraints on judgment and action.” Leiter argues, moreover, that it