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Cy Pres Settlements

with Richard A. Epsteinvia American Enterprise Institute
Thursday, April 10, 2008

The idea of cy pres (pronounced "see pray" or "sigh pray," from the French cy pres comme possible--"as near as possible") originated in the trust context, where courts would reinterpret the terms of a charitable trust when literal application of those terms resulted in the dissolution of the trust because of impossibility or illegality.

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Legal Bondage

with Richard A. Epsteinvia New Republic
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The day of Eliot Spitzer's ignominious resignation, I reread one of the most splenetic dissents in the recent history of the Supreme Court: the jeremiad Antonin Scalia wrote in response to the Lawrence v. Texas ruling that legalized sodomy....

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Compensation under Competition--Posner

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Monday, April 7, 2008

It used to be thought more widely than it is now that in a competitive market, the compensation of workers, on the assumption that it is left to the market, will be efficient...

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Overwarning, Undercuring

with Richard A. Epsteinvia City Journal
Friday, April 4, 2008

The Supreme Court punted one of the term’s most anticipated commercial cases last month, affirming a lower-court decision in Warner-Lambert v. Kent in a tied vote (Justice Roberts recused himself)...

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No-match data program is aid, not apocalypse

with Thomas Sowellvia Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Friday, April 4, 2008

President Bush's proposal to enforce existing immigration and labor laws has drawn the ire of businesses in Texas and nationwide...

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The Taking of Port Chester

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Forbes
Monday, March 24, 2008

This is America....

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There Will Be Guns

by Benjamin Wittesvia New Republic
Friday, March 21, 2008

One thing seemed clear from Tuesday's Supreme Court oral arguments in District of Columbia v. Heller: The justices are poised to recognize that the Second Amendment confers on individual Americans the right to own guns...

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Facts on Policy: Prison Demographics

via Hoover Institution
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

In December 2006, there were 1.57 million people in federal or state prisons...

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Audio/Video from the Cato Institute: Epstein on Supreme Neglect

by Richard A. Epsteinvia University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
Monday, March 17, 2008

On March 6, Richard Epstein discussed his new book, Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property during an event at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C...

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Criminal Counts

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

For more than two centuries, the political Left has been preoccupied with the fate of criminals, often while ignoring or downplaying the fate of the victims of those criminals...

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