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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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What Did Rucho Do to the Political Question Doctrine?

Samuel Bray | 11.16.2023 9:32 PM If you're interested in the political question doctrine, you should read my colleague Derek...

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Standing Doctrine and the Supreme Court

Samuel Bray | 11.13.2023 8:48 AM Today the Harvard Law Review has published its issue on the Supreme Court's October 2022 Term,...

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Is Distinctive Law Downstream from Distinctive Judges and Counsel?

Samuel Bray | 11.10.2023 1:52 PM Noel Cox, The Influence of the Common Law on the Decline of the Ecclesiastical Courts of the...

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Equity Is Controversial

Samuel Bray | 9.18.2023 3:15 PM Here's a paragraph from a soon-to-be published chapter on the "equity will not"...

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