Customs: Unlock Your Phone or Else
Fault Lines (March 7, 2017)– In the cacophonous debates about President Trump’s travel bans and his overt hostility to immigrants and refugees, civil libertarians have been quick to recount horror...
View ArticleAt the Supreme Court, You’ve Got the Freedom to Speak Elsewhere
March 7, 2017 (Fault Lines) –Protests have become a regular thing in the time of Trump. While many remain peaceful, others turn into violent events where trash cans burn, Starbucks gets looted, and...
View ArticleCourt Clarifies: Cop Can’t Constitutionally Snatch Crack from Crotch
March 7, 2017 (Fault Lines)– Robert Evans must be smiling a little brighter inside his cell in the Garden State. After a good fondling by Jersey cops looking for drugs, he now gets a new trial after...
View ArticleJustice Thomas: Civil Forfeiture May Violate Due Process
March 8, 2017 (Fault Lines)—The Supreme Court recently denied cert in one of those classic cases: good facts mixed with incomplete lawyering. But in a stirring dissent, Justice Thomas may have provided...
View ArticleNine out of Nine Washington State Supremes Agree: “Children Are...
March 8, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Last week, the Washington State Supreme Court handed down a decision sending two juvenile males, who robbed trick-or-treaters at gunpoint in a mini-crime spree, back to...
View ArticleIn Beckles, SCOTUS Perpetuates the Advisory Guidelines Fantasy
March 8, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The United States Supreme Court ruled on a major federal sentencing guidelines case this week. For the last decade plus, since the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Booker,...
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Outsourcing Linda Greenhouse to Yale
March 8, 2017 (Fault Lines) — While working for the New York Times as the paper’s Supreme Court correspondent, Linda Greenhouse won the Pulitzer Prize and embarrassed the paper along the way as well....
View ArticleDeanna Caraballo Almost Got What She Deserves
March 8, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Deanna Caraballo killed a defenseless, fuzzy, little animal, and she got a year in prison: A Cleveland woman was sentenced to the maximum penalty of one year in prison...
View ArticleMeet the New Fault Lines! (Update: Comments Here Are Closed)
March 9, 2017 (Fault Lines) — We are thrilled to announce that Fault Lines has moved to its new home as a standalone online legal commentary magazine. It can be found at FaultLines.us. The new Fault...
View ArticleWhere’s Your Fault Lines Subscription?
In our move to the new FaultLines.us website, it appears that our newsletter, email and comment subscriptions didn’t migrate as well as we hoped. So please, sign up again for your subscription. Sorry...
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