Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:01 AM - By Eliza Gray
* Obama made the order to close Guantanamo within a year and former U.S. attorney David Iglesias has been hired to prosecute suspected terrorists held at the prison. [The Associated Press]
* Caroline Kennedy withdrew her Senate bid, so all that press was much ado about nothing. [The New York Times]
* The Chinese court sentenced two to death and one to a life prison sentence for their role in the tainted milk scandal. [The International Herald Tribune]
* SCOTUS refused to reconsider COPA Wednesday, and agreed that a Massachusetts family could sue the school district for sex discrimination.[The Associated Press]
* A Bank of America shareholder is accusing the bank of withholding information about Merrill Lynch’s $15.3 billion in losses before the shareholders voted on its acquisition. [Bloomberg]
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:52 AM - By Eliza Gray
* Enjoy the inauguration. Even if work sucks—America is awesome. There is a lot of news concerning the inauguration, but one interesting point is that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is the “designated successor” to run the federal government in case of emergency and will not attend the inauguration. [The Washington Post]
* A federal judge granted Cheney discretion over which records of his actions as Vice President have to be preserved in the national archives. Good idea. Surely we can count on Dick Cheney not to destroy any documents that make him look bad. Especially since he has been so truthful and transparent in the past. [The Washington Post]
* Former public defender Randy Koshnick’s representation of cop-killer Ted Oswald could hurt him in his bid for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. [The Chicago Tribune]
* Frequent ATL readers are probably sick of reading about Guantanamo. But the war crimes court at the prison convened yesterday, and proceedings were disrupted by the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9-11. [Reuters]
* The International Court of Justice ruled that the U.S. violated a previous order when Texas executed a Mexican national guilty of rape and murder. [The Los Angeles Times]
* The 213 families in China whose babies got sick from drinking tainted milk brought the case to Chinese Supreme Court. [The Associated Press]
* Chicago lawyer Anton Valukas is in charge of investigating Lehman Brother’s bankruptcy. [Bloomberg.com]
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:13 AM - By Eliza Gray
* The chairwoman of a Chinese dairy company pleaded guilty to selling tainted milk. [Reuters]
* A federal judge declined Tuesday to release two detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, finding that the U.S. government had proved that they were enemy combatants. [The Washington Post]
* Senate Democrats will not accept the appointment of Roland Burris because he is tainted by the corruption of Gov. Blagojevich. Obama publicly agreed with their decision, despite Rep. Bobby Rush’s (D-IL) contention that the U.S. Senate shouldn’t turn away a black man. [The Associated Press]
* The 9th Circuit rejected the outrageosly long 28-years-to-life-sentence for a California sex offender who registered his address late to local police. The court says it was “cruel and unusual punishment” for a technical violation. [Los Angeles Times]
* Instead of sending their client’s fruit baskets for the holidays, Boston firm Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford donated $10,000 to a local charity. [The Boston Globe]
* An 85-year-old man from New Jersey admits he passed U.S. nuclear secrets to Israel after gaining access to a military library in Dover, New Jersey. [Bloomberg]
Friday, October 17, 2008 9:05 AM - By Kashmir Hill
* Fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias speaks out against the DOJ’s ACORN probe. [Talking Points Memo]
* Judges in China refuse to take lawsuits over tainted milk. [Associated Press]
* They may cause rashes. And brain cancer. But we still love them. [Reuters]
* Grand jury investigations for Lehman, in New York and New Jersey. [CNN Money]
* Pfizer settles its painkiller suits for $894 million. [Wall Street Journal (subscription)]
* 24 Hour Fitness hates poor people. [Courthouse News Service]
* David Lat was in Charlottesville this week talking to UVA law students about job hunting. He advised going off the beaten track. [Virginia Law]
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