Recent Things
These student-written pieces comment on any recent legal development — hence “Recent Things” — including decisions by courts other than the U.S. Supreme Court, statutes, regulations, books, or any similar contribution to legal practice or scholarship. These comments are typically eight pages and are usually written by second-year students.
Mayor of Baltimore v. BP P.L.C.
Fourth Circuit Declines to Apply Federal Common Law for Municipal Climate Change Lawsuit.
Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc., ex rel. Happy v. Breheny
New York Court of Appeals Rejects Extending Writ of Habeas Corpus to Elephant.
Shakman v. Pritzker
Seventh Circuit Holds Governor Satisfied Requirements of Fifty-Year-Old Consent Decree.
In re GGP, Inc. Stockholder Litigation
Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal for Shareholders Seeking Appraisal in Merger with Preclosing Dividend.
United States v. Moore-Bush
First Circuit Divides on Constitutionality of Warrantless Pole-Camera Surveillance of Home's Curtilage.
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, The Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
By Brad Snyder. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company. 2022. Pp. 979. $45.00.
Price v. Garland
D.C. Circuit Holds that Filming in Public Forums Is Subject to Lower Level of First Amendment Protection Than Expressive Activities.
Tyson v. Sabine
Fifth Circuit Holds that Sexual Assault Perpetrated by Police Is Fourteenth Amendment Violation, Not Fourth Amendment Seizure.
Drazen v. Pinto
Eleventh Circuit Holds that Absent Class Members Must Satisfy Article III Standing at the Class Certification Phase for Settlement-Only Class Action.