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		<title>Mr. Hornstein on Equal Protection for Some</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/09/13/hornstein-equal-protection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Raymond Hornstein, one of Professor Birdsong&#8217;s brightest students, has written an interesting and provocative paper concerning the Fourteenth Amendment to the  U.S. Constitution.  Does it provide equal protection for all &#8212; or just for some?  Mr. Hornstein has given me permission to post his work on my blog. Read and enjoy. The Fourteenth Amendment; Equal Protection for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child Rapists Live To See Another Day</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2009/09/23/child-rapists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney Shirley Huang, a former student of Birdsong&#8217;s, has recently had her article Child Rapists Live To See Another Day published in the American University Washington College of Law Criminal Law Brief.  The Criminal Law Brief is a law journal where students, practitioners and academics may discuss, debate and explore various elements of  criminal law.   In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Want to Stop Crime, Let Me Have What&#8217;s Mine: A Student&#8217;s Thoughts On The Second Amendment</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2009/08/18/stop-crime-students-thoughts-amendment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birdsong wishes to share with you a well written  directed research paper by student Daniel Burgess.  Mr. Burgess is a strong advocate of the Second Amendment to the Constitution and opposes gun control.  His paper analyzes the early foundations of gun control laws in the U.S.  He submits that more citizens with guns would mean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Town&#039;s Sagging Pants Law Unconstitutional</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2008/09/19/florida-towns-saggingpants-law-unconstitutional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After class discussions last week concerning overbroad criminal statutes that target minority groups, a number of Birdsong&#8217;s criminal law students have sent him email news stories regarding the recent arrests of black teenagers in  south Florida for wearing sagging pants. We now learn that a judge in Riviera Beach, Florida has declared unconsitutional a law banning the wearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Caribbean Court of Justice / No More Privy Council</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2008/07/16/the-caribbean-court-of-justice-no-more-privy-council/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2008/07/16/the-caribbean-court-of-justice-no-more-privy-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birdsong has lived in the Caribbean and enjoys travelling there.  He also sometimes researches and writes on legal topics concerning the English Speaking Caribbean. The article I post herewith is about the formation of the Caribbean Court of Justice.   Birdsong is the first American to write about the CCJ and is very proud of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything You Wanted To Know About the Abstention Doctrine</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2008/07/04/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-abstention-doctrine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birdsong has a question for all you Constitutional Law students out there &#8212; how much do you know about the Abstention Doctrine?  If the answer is you never heard of it.  You had better read some of the following Birdsong article before you take your Con Law final exam!  Here is the article:  COMITY AND [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D.C. Ban on Handguns No Deterrence to Gun Violence</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2008/06/27/dc-ban-on-handguns-no-deterrence-to-gun-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2008/06/27/dc-ban-on-handguns-no-deterrence-to-gun-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[               Earlier today (June 26, 2008) the Supreme Court of the United States, in a case styled District of Columbia v. Heller, overturned the ban on handgun ownership in Washington, D.C. that had existed since 1976.   The Court found that the ban was violative of the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The law is an ass</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2008/04/04/the-law-is-an-ass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE LAW IS AN ASS By Birdsong 3/30/08 Many years ago Birdsong read a novel by Charles Dickens. Birdsong does not remember which Dickens’ novel, however he does remember a colloquy between two of the characters. The first character explains the workings of a new British law to the second character. Upon hearing of the [...]]]></description>
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