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People v. Davis
Deon Davis appeals pretrial detention granted under the Illinois Pretrial Fairness Act due to unlawful possession of a firearm; court finds evidence sufficient for detention and upholds decision.
ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.netPORTER v. BOWEN, Opinion of the Court
The case addresses the First Amendment rights related to vote-swapping websites, determining that California's threat of prosecution was unconstitutional, while the official was granted qualified immunity for lack of clearly established law.
cdn.ca9.uscourts.govJustice Anthony Kennedy, writing the majority opinion on Romer v. Evans, declared that the amendment was inexplicable of anything but animosity to a class of people. It was both too narrow and too broad. It identified a person by a single trait, and then it denied that person protection across the board. “Amendment 2 classifies homosexuals not to f
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Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz
Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to
... See moreJohn McDonald • A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors (The MIT Press)
Vic is a pointy-faced man of about forty with slicked-back dark hair who looks like a weaselly sort of hood, or maybe just a weasel, with his small eyes and vicious smile. Before landing here at the DMV, Vic worked as a bouncer, a roadie, a security guard, a fitness trainer, an auditor, and a head cook—name a job where you got to intimidate people
... See moreKatherine Heiny • Games and Rituals
The majority opinion, written by Judge Vito Titone, established new criteria—along the lines Rubenstein suggested—for determining what a family is.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
I knew then that Randy had fallen for AJ, that the friend he really craved was that golden high school boy who had saved him. But he would settle for me.
Laura Lippman • Wilde Lake
Harry Britt, Harvey Milk’s chosen successor, introduced a bill to the board of supervisors that would give health insurance benefits to the live-in partners of city employees. It passed—only to be vetoed by Mayor George Moscone’s successor, Dianne Feinstein, who caved to pressure from San Francisco’s Roman Catholic churches. “To reduce the sacred c
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