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Leopold v. Levin, 259 N.E.2d 250 (Ill. Sup. Ct. 1970).
The film, which is excellent (as is the roman à clef on which it's based by Meyer Levin) featuring Orson Welles reading Clarence Darrow's actual majestic peroration, can be watched in full here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4bf...
The film, which is excellent (as is the roman à clef on which it's based by Meyer Levin) featuring Orson Welles reading Clarence Darrow's actual majestic peroration, can be watched in full here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4bf...
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August 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Leopold v. Levin, 259 N.E.2d 250 (Ill. Sup. Ct. 1970).
The film, which is excellent (as is the roman à clef on which it's based by Meyer Levin) featuring Orson Welles reading Clarence Darrow's actual majestic peroration, can be watched in full here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4bf...
The film, which is excellent (as is the roman à clef on which it's based by Meyer Levin) featuring Orson Welles reading Clarence Darrow's actual majestic peroration, can be watched in full here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4bf...
doctrinally, what happened to Charles I was regicide and the High Court of Justice trying him genuinely did have no authority.
August 7, 2025 at 5:52 AM
doctrinally, what happened to Charles I was regicide and the High Court of Justice trying him genuinely did have no authority.
Even with the vagary on how you define the Crown, which is a matter of acknowledged doctrinal inconsistency, I think the answer is clearly firmly no. though as bodies corporate there are public entities that can be criminally liable.
August 7, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Even with the vagary on how you define the Crown, which is a matter of acknowledged doctrinal inconsistency, I think the answer is clearly firmly no. though as bodies corporate there are public entities that can be criminally liable.
See also Wade, Forsyth, & Ghosh, Administrative Law, 12 edn at 664 (noting that the situation regarding costs in such a proceeding is unclear)
August 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
See also Wade, Forsyth, & Ghosh, Administrative Law, 12 edn at 664 (noting that the situation regarding costs in such a proceeding is unclear)
This makes it annoying for someone who is not a weirdo style obsessive (i.e., not like me) who might not realize there are plenty of references!
April 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This makes it annoying for someone who is not a weirdo style obsessive (i.e., not like me) who might not realize there are plenty of references!
The biggest practical point of this is actually distinctly digital, because if you wanted to search a recent Supreme Court opinion for "MS-13" you'd get 0 results because the computer only finds "MS–13".
April 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The biggest practical point of this is actually distinctly digital, because if you wanted to search a recent Supreme Court opinion for "MS-13" you'd get 0 results because the computer only finds "MS–13".
Usually three hyphens default changed? But never to an en-dash?
April 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Usually three hyphens default changed? But never to an en-dash?
so
"This—the law—is bad"
becomes under JT's rules (for Penguin Books and behind the beautiful redesign that makes their paperbacks so wonderful to this day!)
"This – the law – is bad"
"This—the law—is bad"
becomes under JT's rules (for Penguin Books and behind the beautiful redesign that makes their paperbacks so wonderful to this day!)
"This – the law – is bad"
April 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
so
"This—the law—is bad"
becomes under JT's rules (for Penguin Books and behind the beautiful redesign that makes their paperbacks so wonderful to this day!)
"This – the law – is bad"
"This—the law—is bad"
becomes under JT's rules (for Penguin Books and behind the beautiful redesign that makes their paperbacks so wonderful to this day!)
"This – the law – is bad"
I think every non-federal style guide is fairly consistent that en-dash is for range of numbers. One of the few outliers on en-dashes is for that Jan Tschichold's advice in his legendary 1948 guide to typographers to use the en-dash with spaces instead of the em-dash
April 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I think every non-federal style guide is fairly consistent that en-dash is for range of numbers. One of the few outliers on en-dashes is for that Jan Tschichold's advice in his legendary 1948 guide to typographers to use the en-dash with spaces instead of the em-dash
This came up a lot in visa debates because only by knowing that the federal government approach (mostly via the GPO) is for en-dashes, no one would possibly guess that the visa is H–1B (hyphen) not H-1B (hyphen).
Even worse that visa name references now repealed legislative organizing
Even worse that visa name references now repealed legislative organizing
April 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This came up a lot in visa debates because only by knowing that the federal government approach (mostly via the GPO) is for en-dashes, no one would possibly guess that the visa is H–1B (hyphen) not H-1B (hyphen).
Even worse that visa name references now repealed legislative organizing
Even worse that visa name references now repealed legislative organizing
On iPhone, press and hold the hyphen and then move right once for en-dash (–) and twice for em-dash (—)
April 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
On iPhone, press and hold the hyphen and then move right once for en-dash (–) and twice for em-dash (—)
Just cite Arkell v Pressdram and be done with it
(google it!)
(google it!)
April 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Just cite Arkell v Pressdram and be done with it
(google it!)
(google it!)
The official proclamation of Australia's dissolution is not befitting the great Commonwealth… so I re-typeset it! God save the King of Australia! Pathetic original below
March 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
