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Marc Charisse is the editor of The Evening Sun. Dr. Charisse has a Ph.D. in First Amendment law and history, and has taught communication law and constitutional law at the University of Washington in Seattle and Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Fla. Charisse can be reached at mcharisse@eveningsun.com.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Court seems torn over “right to lie”
Conventional wisdom is that it’s always risky to read too much into what side individual justices appear to take in oral arguments before the Supreme Court. The justices can push the side they disagree with in hopes of spotting holes … Continue reading
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No class debate on right to lie
A Loyola law professor sent me a copy of a blog post on Alvarez, the “right to lie” case the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on today. Prof. Aaron Caplan writes that he hoped for a good classroom debate on … Continue reading
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The forgotten right to be let alone
So where in the Constitution does it talk about GPS tracking? Well, it doesn’t. But that didn’t stop the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court from unanimously ruling recently that the practice raises serious constitutional concerns. Decided in late … Continue reading
