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BLAWG LOG: Idleman on Tebowing and the Constitution; Greipp’s interview with Hylton
Much has been made of Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow’s outward expressions of his Christian faith, especially his practice of kneeling in moments of prayer—“Tebowing” as it is now called—after touchdowns, some of them admittedly a bit miraculous.
BLAWG LOG: Hylton on the Sports Broadcasting Act
I remember watching the 1960 World Series on television, but the first year that I really followed major league baseball was 1961, the year of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle’s historic assault on Babe Ruth’s single season home run record.
BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on the effect of truth in sentencing
Previous posts in this series have examined the latest available incarceration data from Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. This post considers historical data. I’m particularly interested in the impact of a major change in sentencing law that was adopted in Wisconsin in 1998.
BLAWG LOG: Hylton on starting your own baseball league
Am I right to assume that Organized Baseball today would reject an application from a well-funded, well-organized independent league that wanted to join the National Association?
BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on a tale of three states
It may be as accurate to say that Wisconsin’s lower imprisonment rate leads to its lower crime rate, as it is to say that Wisconsin’s lower crime rate leads to its lower imprisonment rate. There is probably a certain amount of truth to both propositions.
BLAWG LOG: Fallone on why the permit policies in the US Capitol are irrelevant
Confusion continues over the new Department of Administration rules announced December 1 which require advance permits for many demonstrations held within the Wisconsin State Capitol.
BLAWG LOG: Judge DiMotto on juror conduct during trial
When a jury is selected to try a case, the trial judge has the responsibility to ensure that the jury's verdict is based on three things, and three things alone.
BLAWG LOG: Grossman on exam preparation advice; Althouse on Walker, free speech
If my first year of law school was any indication, first year law students are looking ahead to final exams during the coming weeks with some trepidation.
BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on no harm, no foul — but how do you know if there was harm?
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that gives the Court an opportunity to clarify a longstanding ambiguity in harmless error law.
BLAWG LOG: Fallone on the original intent of the recall power; Slavin on typography for lawyers
Some opponents of the effort to recall Governor Scott Walker have claimed that the recall provisions of the Wisconsin State Constitution are intended solely to permit the recall of elected officials when they have engaged in criminal or grossly unethical conduct.
BLAWG LOG: Borsuk on Ellen Gilligan: Optimism amid big problems; Geske on reflections from a semester abroad
A wave of new leaders is one of the reasons to believe a new initiative to improve Milwaukee’s overall level of educational success can bring progress, one of the most influential of those new leaders said Tuesday at Eckstein Hall.
BLAWG LOG: O’Hear on life without parole for juveniles
Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in two new cases that will test the limits of the Court’s important 2010 ruling in Graham v. Florida, which banned the sentence of life without possibility of parole for most juvenile offenders.
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