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The Truth of Erasure?

Samuel Bray | 11.7.2024 4:06 PM If you have been following the debate about universal or nationwide remedies, you know that a lot...

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Interpretation, Context, and "the Region Currently Under Strain"

Samuel Bray | 11.5.2024 11:14 AM Here's a quotation from Richard Rorty about context, and the last two sentences are instructive...

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The Party Line

Samuel Bray | 10.24.2024 8:45 AM Chief Justice Marshall: It is also objected that some of the Defendants in error do not show a...

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Three Thoughts on the Stay Denial in West Virginia v. EPA

Samuel Bray | 10.16.2024 6:37 PM Today the Supreme Court denied the application for a stay in West Virginia v. EPA, a challenge...

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Ghost Guns and the Mischief Rule

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Thoughts on the Lackey v. Stinnie Oral Argument

Samuel Bray | 10.8.2024 1:53 PM The Court's argument this morning in  Lackey v. Stinnie showed some fractures among the...

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Today's Argument in Lackey v. Stinnie: Attorneys' Fees and Preliminary Injunctions

Samuel Bray | 10.8.2024 9:08 AM This morning the Supreme Court will hear argument in  Lackey v. Stinnie , a major case about...

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Lackey v. Stinnie: What, Exactly, Is a Preliminary Injunction?

Samuel Bray | 10.4.2024 4:26 PM Next week the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in  Lackey v. Stinnie , a case that...

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Banana Republican

Samuel Bray | 7.29.2024 11:35 AM I found myself disagreeing with some of the points made in co-blogger Josh Blackman's post this...

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The Constitution as an Allocation of Competences

Samuel Bray | 7.27.2024 7:34 PM It [i.e., the Supreme Court] must look to the Constitution, be it with a large or small C, written...

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Plucking Beauty out of Dangerous Cracks and Crevices

Samuel Bray | 7.2.2024 10:03 AM Herbert Butterfield, the historian often remembered for coining or at least popularizing the...

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Six Points About Law and Equity in SEC v. Jarkesy

Samuel Bray | 6.27.2024 11:05 AM In SEC v. Jarkesy, Chief Justice Roberts offers the Court's latest opinion on the Seventh...

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One Way to Read United States v. Rahimi

Samuel Bray | 6.22.2024 4:19 PM The justices stole a march on the scholars, getting there first in publishing a seven-chapter volume called What New...

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The Ratio for the Importance of Legal Questions

Samuel Bray | 6.20.2024 4:47 PM An aphorism attributed to Edward Jacob QC: The importance of questions was in this ratio: first,...

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Equity Does What It Does–For the Parties

Samuel Bray | 6.10.2024 4:49 PM In reading an old treatise's discussion of preliminary injunctions, I came across this quotation:...

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Defining Equity: Distinctive and Constrained?

Samuel Bray | 6.3.2024 7:46 AM It's often instructive to compare entries in older and newer versions of Black's Law...

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Ten Thoughts on Starbucks, Corp. v. McKinney

Samuel Bray | 4.23.2024 12:46 PM Brief responses based on the second oral argument this morning:

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Equity Isn't Venti for the Government

Samuel Bray | 4.22.2024 9:57 PM Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney. Read more in...

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Cruel AND Unusual?

Samuel Bray | 4.21.2024 12:35 AM On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear argument in an Eighth Amendment case, City of Grants...

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Do Suits in Equity Imply a Cause of Action for Damages?

Samuel Bray | 4.16.2024 11:04 AM This morning's decision in DeVillier v. Texas, written by Justice Thomas for a unanimous Court,...

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Is the Bell Tolling for Universal Injunctions?

Samuel Bray | 4.16.2024 9:49 AM Yesterday the Court stayed most of the district court's injunction in Labrador v. Poe , narrowing...

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New Light on the National Injunction

Samuel Bray | 4.10.2024 12:38 PM Sometimes it seems like nothing ever changes with the national injunction. Federal district...

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Does Equity Respect Separate Corporate Personality?

Samuel Bray | 4.8.2024 10:40 PM If you're interested in the intersection of corporate law, trademark, accounting for profits, and...

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Advisory Opinions and Military Jurisdiction: New Light on Sackville's Case (1760)

Samuel Bray | 4.1.2024 9:48 PM My colleague Christian Burset is an outstanding legal historian, and he sent along this splendid...

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A Welcome Judicial Reform: Towards Random Case Assignment

Samuel Bray | 3.13.2024 9:13 AM I was delighted to see the Judicial Conference of the United States is acting to promote random...

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More Facts, Please

Samuel Bray | 3.7.2024 9:08 AM A striking characteristic of last month's oral arguments in the content-moderation cases was the...

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Animals, Fractions, and the Interpretive Tyranny of the Senses in the Dictionary

Samuel Bray | 2.22.2024 12:06 PM The Mischief Rule , an article on statutory interpretation that I published several years ago,...

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Equity, Property, and One View of the Cathedral

Samuel Bray | 2.20.2024 8:42 AM I've revised my short essay called  Equity's Role in Defining Property Rights , and this passage...

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Judges Make Law, But . . .

Samuel Bray | 2.17.2024 7:45 PM I was revising a paper on the relationship between equity and property, and I had occasion to look...

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Two Quotes: Hamilton and Holmes

Samuel Bray | 2.13.2024 9:43 PM Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 70: Men often oppose a thing, merely because they have had...

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Universal Injunctions, Congressional Capacity, and Filibuster Reform

Samuel Bray | 2.7.2024 9:53 PM Today I participated in a Rappaport Forum discussion at Harvard Law School titled "Rule by One...

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"Officer of the United States" in Context

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Remedies Casebook Revision: Chapter 1 ("Introduction")

Samuel Bray | 1.18.2024 11:52 AM This is the second in a series of posts about the revision that is in the works for Ames,...

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Devillier v. Texas–and the Declaratory Judgment Is Not Equitable

Samuel Bray | 1.16.2024 12:07 PM I am listening to the oral argument in Devillier v. Texas , and one attorney just said the...

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Remedies Casebook Revision: Behind the Scenes

Samuel Bray | 1.15.2024 11:35 AM The next edition of Ames, Chafee, and Re on Remedies is off to the publisher (Foundation) for...

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What Is the Connection Between Juries and Damages?

Samuel Bray | 1.11.2024 5:41 PM A fascinating set of arguments from Justice Samuel Selden of the New York Supreme Court in 1851:...

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The Chancellor's Function

Samuel Bray | 1.11.2024 5:03 PM City of Columbus v. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co. of Baltimore, 218 U.S. 645, 663 (1910): "In the...

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Reading Statutes in Light of Historic Principles of Equity

Samuel Bray | 1.11.2024 5:21 PM Holmberg v. Armbrecht, 327 U.S. 392, 395 (1946): When Congress leaves to the federal courts the...

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