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This Day in Legal History: The Capture of John André On September 23, 1780, three American militiamen stopped a man riding toward British lines near Tarrytown, New York. Hidden in his boot were documents and maps of the fortifications at West Point. The man was Major John André, adjutant general of the British Army—and the papers exposed one of the most infamous plots in American history: General...

This Day in Legal History: The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation On September 22, 1862, following the Union’s costly victory at Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It gave the Confederate states an ultimatum: return to the Union by January 1, 1863, or the enslaved people in the rebelling states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”...

This Day in Legal History: Sandra Day O’Connor Confirmed On September 21, 1981, the United States Senate voted 99 to 0 to confirm Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court of the United States, making her the first woman ever to sit on the nation’s highest court—191 years after the Court was established. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, who had pledged during his campaign to name a woman to th...

This Day in Legal History: The First Peacetime Draft On September 16, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act, establishing the first peacetime military draft in American history. With France fallen and Britain under siege, the country was bracing for a war it had not yet entered, and the Act required men in a broad age range to register for potential co...

This Day in Legal History: The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing On September 15, 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan planted dynamite beneath the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama—a hub of the civil rights movement—and detonated it on a Sunday morning. The blast killed four young Black girls: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Denise McNair. It wa...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com This D...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com This D...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com This D...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com . This...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com . This...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com . This...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com . This...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com . This...

This Day in Legal History: Aaron Burr Acquitted of Treason On September 1, 1807, a jury in Richmond, Virginia acquitted Aaron Burr—the former Vice President of the United States—of treason, in what remains the only time such a high-ranking American official has ever been tried for that crime. The verdict was delivered in memorably grudging terms: the jury said Burr was “not proved to be guilty und...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com . This...

This Day in Legal History: The Murder of Emmett Till On August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was abducted, tortured, and murdered in the Mississippi Delta by two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, after Till—a Black teenager visiting from Chicago—was accused of offending a white woman in a grocery store. His killers beat him, shot him, weighted his body, and threw it in the Tallahatch...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com . This...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com . This...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com . This...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com . This...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com . This...

This Day in Legal History: The War on Poverty On August 20, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, the legislative centerpiece of the “War on Poverty” he had declared in his State of the Union address seven months earlier. It was among the most ambitious pieces of social legislation in American history. More fundamentally, it committed the federal government to the...

We’ve launched Minimum Competence CLE, and our first course is now available completely free. Researching Federal Tax Issues After Loper Bright looks at how the Supreme Court’s decision ending Chevron deference changes the way lawyers should research and evaluate Treasury regulations, IRS guidance, and other federal tax authorities. Take the course and earn CLE credit at cle.minimumcomp.com . This...

This Day in Legal History: The Nineteenth Amendment Is Ratified On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment—the final state needed to reach the three-quarters threshold—and with that vote, the constitutional guarantee that the right to vote could not be denied on account of sex became part of American law. It enfranchised, at a stroke, roughly hal...

This Day in Legal History: Clinton Testifies Before the Grand Jury On August 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton became the first sitting president to testify before a grand jury as the subject of its investigation. He gave his testimony via closed-circuit television from the White House to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s grand jury, concerning his relationship with a White House intern—and that...