law
"Blue Lives Matter" Is the Inevitable Endpoint of Hate Crime Laws
Hamilton Nolan · 08/04/16 10:30AMLetters From Death Row: Texas Inmate Jeff Wood, Scheduled to Die This Month
Hamilton Nolan · 08/02/16 09:40AMBoth Political Parties Say They Want to Regulate the Banks. Will We Regulate the Banks?
Hamilton Nolan · 07/28/16 12:45PMAirbnb, Just Pay Your Taxes and Follow the Law and Shut Up
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"Fuckman-Ass" Judge and "Donkey-Dicked" Murder Suspect Are America's Greatest Comic Duo
Hudson Hongo · 06/22/16 08:05PMLaurel and Hardy. Aykroyd and Belushi. Nixon and Haldeman. Soon these names will be joined by “Fuckman and Donkey Dick,” better known as Judge Bryant Durham and alleged killer Denver Allen, whose performance in a Georgia courtroom last week easily ranks them among America’s most legendary comedy teams.
New Startup That Sends Dossiers On Your Private Social Media Profiles To Potential Landlords Should Be Illegal
Marina Galperina · 06/09/16 04:46PMA new startup wants to take a “deep dive” into the private social media activity of prospective tenants—their chats, check-ins, how many times they’ve posted words like “pregnant” or “loan”—and score their “personality” for their potential landlord. Why would anyone let this happen? Because “people will give up their privacy to get something they want,” Steve Thornhill, co-founder of the British startup Score Assured tells The Washington Post.
San Francisco NIMBYs May Be Sacrificed So That Housing Can Live
Hamilton Nolan · 05/23/16 08:25AMIt Sounds Crazy, But You Might Be Able to Sue Your Bank Again Soon
Hamilton Nolan · 05/05/16 08:35AMUber Gets Off Easy
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Thousands of Prisoners Are Doubled Up in Claustrophobic Solitary Cells
Hamilton Nolan · 03/31/16 11:12AMAntonin Scalia Has Saved Labor Unions
Hamilton Nolan · 03/29/16 09:55AMInnocent Man Exonerated After 25 Years in Prison
Hamilton Nolan · 03/11/16 10:11AMWisconsin Supreme Court Justice Wrote College Op-Eds Railing Against "Queers"
Hamilton Nolan · 03/08/16 09:36AMHacker Who Revealed Hillary's Private Email and George Bush's Paintings Will Face Justice in U.S.
Sam Biddle · 03/04/16 11:59AMBlack Former Law Students of Antonin Scalia Recall Unfair Treatment at the University of Chicago
Sam Biddle · 02/29/16 12:32PMWhile on the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia, who died this month at 79, worked to make society less just for black Americans, railing against affirmative action and seeking to undermine the Voting Rights Act. His admirers would attribute this not to rank bigotry, but to his textualist legal philosophy. According to some of the dead justice’s former law students, though, a younger Scalia also went out of his way to undermine young legal scholars, simply because they were black.