Judge finds Governor Bush's law unconstitutional

Judge Posner’s Common Law Constitution

This past year, Judge Richard Posner published a pair of essays endorsing the common law method of constitutional interpretation. “David Strauss is right,” he wrote, in a contribution to Slate’s annual Supreme Court Breakfast Table. “The Supreme Court treats the Constitution like it is authorizing the court to create a common law of constitutional law, based on current concerns, not what those ...

Judge nudges dormant euthanasia draft law.

rule of law or rule of judge

as a result of rule of law ideal, judges are required to act in accordance with laws. the ideal is justified by some political values: political liberty, legal liberty , personal liberty and equality. citizens are subject only to the law not to the arbitrary will or judgment of another who wields coercive government power. but in some cases law is indeterminate. in these cases there is an impor...

Application of Salvage Law and the Law of Finds to Sunken Shipwreck Discoveries

IN THE 1977 motion picture, The Deep, a young couple, while scuba diving in the Bahamas, discover an ampoule of morphine lying near an old World War II freighter. After befriending a local treasure salvor, the group endeavors to remove all the morphine ampoules from the wreck and destroy the drugs before they fall into the hands of a local bad guy. But the adventure deepens when an old grenade ...

Constitutional law--freedom of the press--prohibition of abortion referral service advertising held unconstitutional.