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Texas Courts Rely on 'Of Mice and Men' to Define Intellectual Disability and Sentence People to Death

This piece originally appeared at Salon. Bobby James Moore has a lifelong intellectual disability, yet he sits on Texas’s death row because the courts there used John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” to ...
Jurist

Hall v. Florida: Over Relying on a Single Source to Set a National Standard

JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Schneider, Syracuse University College of Law, Class of 2015, explores criticisms of the DSM-5 after the US Supreme Court used it as the sole national standard to define ...
IPWatchdog

KnowIt Announces $2 Million in Funding to Bring the Community of Creators and Protectors Together to Define Intellectual Property in a Digital World

Co-Founded by CEO Cheryl Slipski, Chairman Anil D. Aggarwal, and Simran Aggarwal, KnowIt’s flagship annual event, “Intellectual Property in a Digital World,” will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada on ...
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Supreme Court justices seem to back execution of man with intellectual disabilities

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared inclined to side with the state of Alabama during ...