The heart-warming story of those who dare to dream. Just kidding. But seriously, take a break with Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Michael Caine, and a bunch of other great actors in this unsettling and exciting story of dream theft. Check out the trailer, then check it out from our collection.
News and items of interest from last week: Saudi women protest driving ban by taking to the roads (The Guardian) The Third Circuit rules for a warrant requirement for GPS tracking (SCOTUSblog) If you’re a judge, please don’t totally undermine the judicial process by helping prosecutors and working on jurors (Boing Boing) The debate on…
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Keeping It Civil: The Case of the Pre-Nup and the Porsche & Other True Accounts from the Files of a Family Lawyer – A long-time family attorney recounts various stories from throughout her career to explore America’s evolving culture of marriage, divorce, and child rearing. The stories As the author puts it, “Family law can be…
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News and items of interest from last week: As of today, gay couples can now marry in New Jersey after the state supreme court declined to delay a judge’s order requiring the issuance of marriage licenses to such couples (SCOTUSblog) The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a challenge against a podcast patent troll with the patent office…
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Are you ready to see Kirk Douglas, directed by a young Stanley Kubrick, in one of the greatest movies you very possibly haven’t heard of? Then get ready for Paths of Glory. Douglas plays Colonel Dax, a French officer who defends four of his soldiers in a court martial initiated for their refusal to participate…
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News and items of interest from last week: On the First Amendment and the right to know what’s in a lethal injection Someone seems to think that the UN caused a cholera outbreak in Haiti Saudi Arabia granted a female an attorney’s license for the first time ever Pirate Joe, a man who buys up…
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“How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind-and Changed the History of Free Speech in America” Though he was known for his skepticism of Constitutional protections of individual rights, in 1919 Justice Holmes wrote the Schenk opinion that created the “clear and present danger” standard by which the government might limit speech, thus greatly expanding the national…
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News and items of interest from last week (I’ll assume you have the shutdown covered): In other shutdowns, the FBI closed the online black market Silk Road (NPR) An Australian record label hit Larry Lessig with a take down notice, he counter-sued (NPR) A complete list of Batman’s crimes in Batman Begins (Salt Lake Tribune)…
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A sci-fi thriller that’s perhaps more relevant now than it might have been on release a decade ago (hello, NSA), Minority Report looks to a future where crime is prevented (almost) entirely thanks to the prediction capabilities of three psychics. Starring Tom Cruise as a PreCrime officer avoiding the pursuit of his own unit for…
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News stories and items of interest from last week: Presidents Obama and Rouhani share a phone call, the first official contact between US and Iranian heads of state since 1979 (BuzzFeed) The Senate confirmed the US’s first out gay circuit court judge (BuzzFeed) A former public defender discusses misconceptions and little known facets of the US criminal…
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