Rory Little, Author at SCOTUSblog

Rory Little

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Rory Little is a visiting professor at Yale Law School, Professor of Law at U.C. Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, a former clerk to Justices Potter Stewart (ret.) and William Brennan, and author of the American Bar Association’s “Annual Review of the Supreme Court’s Term, Criminal Cases.” He is also “Of Counsel” to the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery on discrete appellate matters.

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Argument preview: Are there (finally) five votes to declare the residual clause of the ACCA unconstitutionally vague?

By Rory Little on Nov 4, 2014 at 10:50 am

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