Morning Docket 08.18.09
* It sounds like very few protesters greeted John Yoo at Berkeley Law School. Only four were tenacious enough to get arrested. [Associated Press]
* Fen-phen lawyers sentenced to 20 and 25 years, respectively. The judge wants their sentences to deter other lawyers tempted to steal from settlement funds. [Bloomberg]
* Proskauer Rose probably likes this headline. [New York Daily News]
* Nino leads one to believe that empathy is not an important quality in a judge. [New York Times via Daily Beast]
* The 5th Circuit agrees with a Texas school district that has banned “shirts with words.” Are shirts with numbers okay? [Courthouse News Service]
* Michael Jackson’s children have lawyered up. [CNN]
* Nationwide salary cut watch: LA County judges. [Los Angeles Times]
* Why has there been no litigation surge in the recession? [National Law Journal]
(18) Comments
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GO GATORS!
I echo #1 - GO GATORS!
Also, why no mention of the guy toting an AR-15 at an Obama protest in Arizona? Where the 2nd Amendment supporters?
Virtually every witness has recanted testimony in the Georgia murder and another man has since confessed to the crime.
No- says Nino Scalia. Only fools would find him not guilty. The framers of the constitution told me so.
TOP 10!
I suppose that I should know the answer to this question, but is Berkeley Law School accredited by the American Bar Association? Does anyone know whether the school is a member of the Association of American Law Schools?
Mystal is as large as a law school.
What's good for Berkeley is good for Yoo too.
It may be irrational, but I think I'd value a FIRST in the morning docket less than one on a regular article.
Feel free to discuss.
Give us something MysTTTal
Not to be persnickety, but the AP reporter said that Yoo was teaching a civil law class, which would be odd. (Most schools have LL.M. programs that focus on training civil-law educated lawyers common law, not the other way around.) He's actually teaching Civil Procedure 2 and fall classes apparently already have started this early. I hope he told the protestors that the classroom wasn't the best "forum" for a protest. While I am happy to see him held accountable for his memos justifying torture, I think it is unfair to the students paying tuition to have their class interrupted.
For all the naysayers out there, Nino got it right. We have procedures and policies in place. If you have a problem with either of those things, your beef is not with the Supreme Court, but with Congress.
Too bad the two attorneys won't spend their years in prison with Bubba for a cellmate. They'll likely get a meduim, then minimum security prison. It's good to see they got long sentences, because there are many dishonest attorneys that practice in the mass tort arena, and they need to know that their ass will be penetrated if they mess with the Feds.
Vocal protests of John Yoo as he tries to go to work = tenacious demonstrators.
Vocal protests of liberals trying to enact a government takeover the entire health care system = un-American evil-mongers.
John Yoo should be shot with a ball of his own shit
10 - Yes, by all means, let's not inconvenience students with a lesson in civil protest. Really?
Dan Siegal sure put forth a compelling argument, I mean , he said there's no doubt, so let's just put Yoo in jail now shall we?
Please, 4 whole demonstrators? I mean, does that even count? Could they not pull in a couple of illegal's hanging around waiting for some day labor?
illegal + 's = gold