Leiter Reports
Nov 11, 9:13 AM PST
First: Conservative rhetoric notwithstanding, the House bill is not a "government takeover." I wish it were. Instead, it enshrines and subsidizes the "takeover" by the investor-owned insurance industry that occurred after the failure of the Clinton reform effort in 1994....
Above the Law
Nov 11, 9:03 AM PST
In today's Morning Docket , we mentioned the recent benchslap administered to Sidley Austin by Judge Diane Cannon (pictured), an Illinois state court judge. Lynne Marek of the NLJ reports : A court hearing on Tuesday in Chicago at which former Northwestern University journalism students...
WSJ Law Blog
Nov 11, 8:51 AM PST
There’s nothing like a good old fashioned separation-of-church-and-state case to get a community all riled up. Politicians hurl barbs; interest groups from the right and left make brazen accusations; TV talk-show hosts lean just a little closer to the camera when they make their...
Blog of Legal Times
Nov 11, 8:50 AM PST
John O'Connor III, the husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, died today in Phoenix of complications from Alzheimer's disease, according to an announcement from the Court. He was 79. O'Connor, an accomplished lawyer in his own right,...
SCOTUS Blog
Nov 11, 8:30 AM PST
John J. O’Connor III, retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s husband, died on Wednesday, the Supreme Court announced . He was 79. The O’Connors have three sons, and six grandchildren.
TalkLeft
Nov 11, 8:29 AM PST
Adam Bonin set up this Act Blue page for 20 Democratic representatives in competitive districts who voted No on Stupak and Yes on the public option. This is "moderate centrism" you can support imo. The representatives were: AZ-01 Kirkpatrick, Ann AZ-05 Mitchell, Harry AZ-08...
How Appealing
Nov 11, 8:14 AM PST
An email from a juror to the attorney for a criminal defendant in a case tried in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire resulted in this rather interesting ruling yesterday from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit .
SCOTUS Blog
Nov 11, 8:05 AM PST
Urging the Supreme Court to broaden its new review of government policy on transfers of detainees out of Guantanamo Bay, attorneys for four Chinese Muslim Uighurs filed a new case Tuesday evening. If the Court were to grant review, it would focus the Justices’ attention on two...
Overlawyered
Nov 11, 8:01 AM PST
Prichard, Alabama can’t seem to get any luck. [ Mobile Press-Register ] Tags: Alabama , public employment , taxpayers Related posts September 1999 archives, part 1 (0) Chicago: Parks worker overhears woman spanking her nephew in bathroom (9) Yosemite rock-climber’s survivors...
How Appealing
Nov 11, 7:57 AM PST
The "Daily News Digest" blog of The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, California has a post that begins, "A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling [yesterday] on the proposed Eagle Mountain landfill near Joshua Tree National Park." At the recently restarted blog...
TalkLeft
Nov 11, 7:51 AM PST
Yesterday was a big day for medical marijuana in Colorado when a Denver District Court judge tossed last week's ruling by the State Board of Health changing the definition of "primary caregiver." Today, the reactions come in. Here are a few: Aurora Sentinel Editorial: Stop Playing Games with...
WSJ Law Blog
Nov 11, 7:41 AM PST
Everywhere you look today, there’s news about the death penalty. By now, we’re guessing that most LBers know that John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the sniper attacks that terrorized the nation’s capital region for three weeks in October 2002, was executed Tuesday...
Above the Law
Nov 11, 7:01 AM PST
You know how much we love rankings around these parts. But apparently there is a list of law firm rankings out there that actually matters. The National Law Journal reports : An Association of Corporate Counsel law firm rating system unveiled last month has triggered a lot of interest from the...
The Cuban Revolution
Nov 10, 9:13 AM PST
S hella Sattler, head of the Dallas Mavericks Dancers and choreographer for the wild and crazy Mavs Maniacs will be my guest on the Revolution Rant Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 2pm(CT)! She is currently in her eleventh year as the Director of the N.B.A. Dallas Mavericks Dancers and...
WSJ Law Blog
Nov 11, 6:35 AM PST
As far as lawyer scandals went, we thought anyone would be hard pressed to top what Marc Dreier pulled off — until he got caught. The spending, the lies, the impersonations , fer cryin’ out loud. We thought it’d be years before we saw the likes of that again. But we’re becoming increasingly...
Concurring Opinions
Nov 11, 6:25 AM PST
Alan Gura, Partner, Gura & Possessky, PLLC; Lead Counsel, District of Columbia v. Heller; Lead Counsel, McDonald v. Chicago Randy Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center Kurt Lash, James P. Bradley Chair of Constitutional Law, Loyola Law...
WSJ Law Blog
Nov 11, 5:56 AM PST
A few weeks ago, we blogged about an NYT story about a rather perplexing situation developing out at Northwestern University. Local prosecutors, wrote the NYT, had issued subpoenas for a trove of information about students in a Northwestern journalism class who had investigated the...
Blog of Legal Times
Nov 11, 5:37 AM PST
Clean Records: With the worst job market in years and criminal background checks that reach further that ever into the past, there's a surge in job-hunters seeking legal help expunging their criminal records, the Wall Street Journal reports. States are...
How Appealing
Nov 11, 5:35 AM PST
This editorial appears today in The Wall Street Journal. Related news coverage can be accessed here from The Hartford Courant and here , here , here , here , and here from The Day of New London, Connecticut.
How Appealing
Nov 11, 5:27 AM PST
Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this report . You can access at this link the transcript of yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Hertz Corp. v. Friend , No. 08-1107.
Althouse
Nov 11, 5:25 AM PST
No last words from John Allen Muhammad.
The Volokh Conspiracy
Nov 11, 5:20 AM PST
Yesterday, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court ruling that NFL quarterback and one-time dog abuser Michael Vick is entitled to keep some $16 million in roster bonuses from the Atlanta Falcons. The opinion is here . ( HT: How Appealing ) Now if only Vick’s...
Concurring Opinions
Nov 11, 5:07 AM PST
I’ve been in Washington, DC for the past few days to attend the oral arguments in Graham and Sullivan, the juvenile life-without-parole cases. Though I’m not normally in the habit of flying across the country to see oral arguments, I’m team-teaching a small seminar about the two cases and...
Concurring Opinions
Nov 10, 11:37 PM PST
In 1862, the legislature of Mississippi enacted the following statute: It is lawful for any married woman to alledge [sic] as a cause of divorce, that her husband is engaged in the service of the United States of America, either in the army or navy, or from choice reside in any one of the States of the...
Concurring Opinions
Nov 10, 11:37 PM PST
In 1862, the legislature of Mississippi enacted the following statute: It is lawful for any married woman to alledge [sic] as a cause of divorce, that her husband is engaged in the service of the United States of America, either in the army or navy, or from choice reside in any one of the States of the...
Overlawyered
Nov 10, 9:16 PM PST
The toy shelf gets barer. [ Daddy Types ] Related: Handmade Toy Alliance , Dan Marshall , Rick Woldenberg , Common Room . Tags: CPSIA , CPSIA and toys Related posts The New York Times finally reports on CPSIA (13) Pull over, sir, we’re checking those socks for lead (15) NPR on...
Legal Juice
Nov 10, 9:01 PM PST
It's called a "car wash," not a "man wash." No doubt these four guys knew that, but decided to give it a shot anyway - NAKED!
The Volokh Conspiracy
Nov 10, 7:27 PM PST
In one of my recent Constitutional Law classes, I had occasion to quote a much-neglected legal authority: He-Man. Like many presidents, especially in wartime, He-Man claims that he has “fabulous secret powers” and even summarizes his legal position with the immortal words
The Volokh Conspiracy
Nov 10, 7:02 PM PST
Over at the Land Use Prof Blog, property scholar Matt Festa has a good discussion of the implications of Pfizer’s decision to close down its New London headquarters for the ongoing debate over the use of eminent domain to promote economic development. As I explained in this post , the...
Althouse
Nov 10, 6:36 PM PST
"I wanted to take them to task. I didn't want to settle and pay them. I told them that they weren't going to get a penny from me. I didn't care if I ended up homeless because of this."
The Volokh Conspiracy
Nov 10, 6:18 PM PST
It hasn’t gotten much media attention, but last week, Texas voters overwhelmingly approved Amendment 11 , an eminent domain reform measure that purports to ban “economic development” takings of the kind the Supreme Court upheld in Kelo v. City of New London . Texas badly...
Althouse
Nov 10, 5:42 PM PST
I. Also missing: me, my, mine. I heard the criticism — from my husband Meade who is reading the speech alongside me — that the Fort Hood speech needed another draft, because there was too much use of the passive voice. I suspected that a special effort had been made to...
TalkLeft
Nov 10, 5:26 PM PST
Update: One of the jurors says she'd invest with the defendants if she had the money. Also, [Juror]Stimpson said she came into the trial thinking both Cioffi and Tannin were guilty of the fraud, insider-trading and conspiracy charges. She said she began to have second thoughts as the...
How Appealing
Nov 10, 4:44 PM PST
The Christian Science Monitor has this report . And today's edition of The Washington Post contains a front page article headlined " Detecting glimpses of humanity in D.C. sniper ." The newspaper also contains an article headlined " Vengeance is not thine: Witnessing an execution doesn't...
Althouse
Nov 10, 4:15 PM PST
Like this: And Apple rejects it , saying: Thank you for submitting Bobble Rep – 111th Congress Edition to the App Store. We’ve reviewed Bobble Rep – 111th Congress Edition and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it...
Above the Law
Nov 11, 3:02 PM PST
* Looking for Christmas gift items already? How about Supreme Court justice baseball cards? [ National Law Journal ] * Or hedge-fund billionaire playing cards? [ Dealbreaker ] * Professor Michael Risch on yesterday's Bilski argument in the Supreme Court. [ PrawfsBlawg ] *...
How Appealing
Nov 10, 3:04 PM PST
The Kansas City Star has a news update that begins, "A group of Missouri death row inmates on Tuesday lost an appeal that had temporarily halted executions in the state." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a news update headlined " Appeals court rejects MO death row inmates' appeal ....
The Conglomerate
Nov 10, 1:11 PM PST
One thing that might be helpful in considering the shape of future scholarship is to clear out some of the...
The Conglomerate
Nov 10, 12:41 PM PST
You can read reactions on the not guilty verdict in the Bear Stearns hedge fund trial here and here. The...
ProfessorBainbridge.com
Nov 10, 12:22 PM PST
Details here. It could have been worse. Much worse.
The Conglomerate
Nov 9, 9:20 PM PST
Hostile takeovers are back in the news with Kraft's bid for Cadbury the latest in a string. South Korea's justice...
The Volokh Conspiracy
Nov 10, 2:27 PM PST
Robert Wright’s BloggingHeadsTV is often the best place on the Web for highly intelligent conversation about politics and culture. Particularly excellent is a new episode , posted today, in which Wright interviews Bruce Feiler, author of the new book America’s Prophet, Moses and the American...
Blog of Legal Times
Nov 10, 2:07 PM PST
Reed Smith has become the latest firm to announce that it was tweaking its first year salaries and billable hour requirements to meet client demands. The firm said today that it was reducing first-year associate salaries in its 15 U.S....
Blog of Legal Times
Nov 10, 1:53 PM PST
A Texas couple has filed a federal class action against AARP in the District of Columbia, alleging the group used misleading marketing to sell its health insurance policies. The suit, filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the District...
Concurring Opinions
Nov 10, 11:20 AM PST
I’m on the colloquium committee at my school (which has included Deven as well until his visit this year), and we bring out a number of colloquium speakers each year, generally workshopping works in progress. This year, we’re also surveying the faculty, asking both some specific questions...
Concurring Opinions
Nov 9, 7:11 PM PST
Here are some observations about the oral argument today in Bilski, which dealt with the scope of patentable subject matter and (potentially) the viability of business method and software patents. 1. The Justices seemed to reject the argument that Section 101 should be read broadly since...
TalkLeft
Nov 10, 1:00 PM PST
Astronaut Lisa Nowak pleaded guilty to reduced charges today and was sentenced to two days in jail, already served, and a year probation. Before a packed courtroom 1:30 p.m., Lisa Marie Nowak, 46, pleaded guilty to counts of third-degree burglary of a conveyance and misdemeanor...
Above the Law
Nov 10, 12:45 PM PST
Oh no. Is it really time to crank up the salary freeze watch again? I thought that the big question this winter would be whether firms that froze salaries last year would be unfreezing pay for 2010. And whether or not the raises were a "true up" raise that put people up to where they would...
The Conglomerate
Nov 10, 12:41 PM PST
You can read reactions on the not guilty verdict in the Bear Stearns hedge fund trial here and here. The...
Blog of Legal Times
Nov 10, 12:33 PM PST
Virginia Attorney General William Mims will join Hunton & Williams as a partner when his term ends in January, the firm announced today. Mims will practice in Hunton’s government relations practice in Washington and Richmond. On February 26, 2009, Mims...
