Morning Docket: 06.23.08
* Despite convictions and prison time for some high-profile plaintiff's lawyers, the "tort wars" rage on. [New York Times]
* The Bear Stearns fund-manager indictment: a cautionary tale. (Pictured: Matthew Tannin, indicted on mail fraud and conspiracy charges.) [WSJ Law Blog]
* An ex-prosecutor in New York says he threw a case because he believed the defendants were innocent. [New York Times]
* A look at Michelle Obama's time at Sidley Austin. [National Law Journal (subscription) via WSJ Law Blog]
* EU approves new sanctions against Iran. [AP]
* Ammo-smuggling pastor set free by Russian court. [CNN]
* Chief Judge Kozinski lawyers up. [Daily Journal (link unavailable) via WSJ Law Blog]
* A profile of a well-to-do Long Island couple convicted of forced labor, peonage and harboring aliens (domestic workers from Indonesia). [New York Times]
(8) Comments
The NLJ link is premium user only...
10:05 - WSJ LB has highlights from it.
Great politico article on Obama's tenure as HLR editor.
10:31 - Link?
Peonage really sounds like something that would have been brought up at the R. Kelly trial.
HLR in politico:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11257.html
Where is the outrage over the prosecutor confessing to throwing a case? He belongs in jail, good intentions or not.
2:08: I completely agree.