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In the 5-4 split, Justice Kennedy, joined by a surprising array of justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, & Kagan,) delivered an opinion which found DOMA unconstitutional. As law students, we are taught during constitutional law that the Supreme Court looks to history, tradition, and state practice. Today, the Supreme Court considered all of these issues whenContinue reading “U.S. v. Windsor (The DOMA Case)”

So week three already? Doesn’t seem like its been that long already!! Things I’ve learned! (Which I will explain in detail later..) Law school and high school are not that different.. I need to set more alarms Headphones keep the world out! How to pronounce federalist (well, still working on it.. don’t judge) Last weekContinue reading “Such a Close Call..”

Hello again! It’s Sunday night and I am going over my homework for contracts, watching hulu and writing this blog. I really want to at least get one blog a week to keep yall updated, hopefully two! This past week has been crazy busy!! So Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I have Torts and Contracts. TuesdaysContinue reading “Beginning Week 2”

So I’m taking a 10 minutes break to cool off from Legal Research and Writing and I was thinking.. we could really use a law school app! It could have a library link that shows you what you can find on each floor, link to email, westlaw and lexisnexis links! dictionary look up, course syllabi,Continue reading “OCU Law App!!”

Today is Friday! It is officially the last day of my Legal Analysis class! I wanted to update every day but with the work load on top of not having Internet at my apartment (fixed!!) it was a little hard to sit down and type out everything I wanted to say! If you want toContinue reading “The Finale!”