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Tuesday, September 9

JURIST publishes U. Michigan affirmative action symposium
Bernard Hibbitts at 3:35 PM

JURIST has just released an online symposium on the University of Michigan affirmative action admissions cases, decided by the US Supreme Court in June of this year. A panel of 12 experts - leading academic authorities on race and the Constitution, attorneys who had argued the cases, the former Dean of Admissions for the University of Michigan Law School, and a senior fellow at a conservative think-tank - offer their views in the first comprehensive collection of perspectives to appear online or in print since the decisions were handed down. To add your thoughts, just join the symposium!

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Md. First Lady exerts influence in judicial nomination process
Ryan DeMotte at 1:43 PM

The Baltimore Sun reports that Maryland First Lady Kendel Ehrlich, a former state prosecutor, is exerting her influence in the judicial nomination process. In other judicial news, Findlaw.com columnist Joanna Grossman discusses extending the Equal Protection right not to be excluded from jury duty beyond race and sex to ethinicity and national origin.

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This day at law - Abraham Lincoln admitted to the bar
Bernard Hibbitts at 9:00 AM

On September 9, 1836, future president Abraham Lincoln received a license to practice law from the Illinois Supreme Court. Setting up office in Springfield, he filed his first lawsuit less than a month later, on October 5. Learn more about the law practice of Abraham Lincoln, from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.