Death Penalty
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Death Penalty, Melvyn Weiss, Milberg Weiss, Morning Docket, Plaintiffs Firms, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 09.20.07
* Didn’t they just execute somebody with an electric chair? And this is what gets them in trouble with the Constitution? [Jurist] * Mel Weiss to be indicted. [New York Times] * Oh, Al Sharpton, you’re incorrigible. [CNN] * Judge withdraws jury instruction in Spector case; has he set up an easy appeal if there’s […]
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Advertising, Death Penalty, Fat People, Kids, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.12.07
* Mandated calorie watching is struck down. [AP; New York Times] * Mortgage lenders’ ads may violate FCC FTC rules. [MSNBC] * Former Philippine prez gets 40-year prison sentence. [New York Times] * China agrees to prohibit lead paint in children’s toys… [AP via MSNBC] * Tennessee uses the chair for first time since 1960. […]
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Celebrities, Death Penalty, Football, Michael Vick, Morning Docket, Sports
Morning Docket: 08.22.07
* Nurse sues Pacman. [Reno-Gazette Journal] * Defense rests in Spector trial. [CNN] * Patent infringers in less treble. [WSJ Law Blog] * Yeah, I’m sure Texas is going to stop killing people because Europe wants them to. [Jurist] * State charges for Vick too? [AP via Yahoo!]
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BARBRI, Crime, Death Penalty, Education / Schools, Football, India, Manuel Real, Michael Vick, Morning Docket, Pets, Violence, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 07.18.07
* Who let the dogs fight? Who? Who? Feds say: football star Michael Vick. [CNN; TSG] * Bar-Bri class reps (no, different class reps): No incentive payments for you. [The Recorder] * Seven-figure legal bills: par for the course for white-collar criminal defendants. [WSJ Law Blog] * India market hot for law firms. [Law.com] * […]
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Death Penalty, Education / Schools, Morning Docket, Religion, Sports
Morning Docket: 07.17.07
* Reprieve granted day before execution. [CNN] * L.A. archdiocese reaches $660 million settlement. [MSNBC] * Family of Girl Who Married Teacher Sues School District. [WSOCTV] * OU must adjust records as part of NCAA sanctions. [SI] * Charges dismissed against 13 former KPMG employees. [NYT; WSJ Law Blog (background)]
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9th Circuit, Crime, Death Penalty, Deaths, Morning Docket, Porn Names, Pornography, Sex, Violence
Morning Docket: 07.11.07
* Charges coming in “collar bomb” case. [CNN] * Size matters. And bigger isn’t always better, as the Ninth Circuit demonstrates. [Los Angeles Times] * That’s some hardcore pwnography. [Click 2 Houston (KPRC, Houston NBC affiliate)] * Deal reached in Libya foreign medics AIDS trial, with details to come tomorrow; Libyan Supreme Court had been […]
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China, Crime, Death Penalty, Deaths, Habeas Corpus, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Morning Docket, Oral Sex / Blow Jobs, Sentencing Law
Morning Docket: 07.10.07
* Georgia Supreme Court expedites Genarlow Wilson hearing. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * Libby gets supervised release to wrap up his sentencing. [WSJ Law Blog] * Off with their food safety head. [BBC] * Georgia judge dies after beating received during robbery two weeks ago. [Fulton County Daily Report]
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Death Penalty, Public Interest, Technology
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Death Penalty, Gender, Immigration, Morning Docket, Sports
Morning Docket: 06.27.07
* He killed, but it was a tough crowd; they crucified him. [CNN] * Jeez, all sorts of shenanigans going on with convicted murderers. [CNN] * It’s not going away folks. [Jurist] * Yep, it’s still constitutional in Georgia. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * Is this going to lead to people who suck at it not even […]
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Animal Law, Death Penalty, Education / Schools, Food, Non-Sequiturs, Paris Hilton, Pornography, Racism, Videos, Weddings
Non-Sequiturs: 06.13.07
* ATL readers, meet Modern Bride of the Year, future defender of battered women. [Modern Bride; lots of “In Defense of”s in Slate’s Wedding Report] [FN1] * I hate to repeat myself and every other local politician, but what do you expect from New York City public school teachers? (I mean, what does it say […] -
Death Penalty, Deaths, Defamation, Habeas Corpus, Kids, Morning Docket, Oral Sex / Blow Jobs, Sentencing Law, Sex, Sports, State Judges
Morning Docket: 06.13.07
* So what’s the solution here? Let another state’s appellate court hear the appeals? [AP via Kane County Chronicle via How Appealing] * Come on, you can get the man a bond hearing earlier than three weeks from now. They’re killing me with this; let him go, damnit! [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * Mississippi sues State Farm […]
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8th Circuit, Antonin Scalia, Benchslaps, Death Penalty, Habeas Corpus, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Benchslap of the Day: Justice Scalia's Dissent in Roper
Okay, make that yesterday. A reader email drew our attention to the saucy conclusion of Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in Roper v. Weaver: The greatest harm is that done to AEDPA, since dismissing the writ of certiorari leaves the Eighth Circuit’s grossly erroneous precedent on the books. (That precedent, by the way, cannot be explained […] -
Alberto Gonzales, Death Penalty, Fast Food, Iraq, Morning Docket, Prisons, Torture, U.S. Attorneys Offices, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 05.10.07
* Inmate’s last request: pizza for homeless. [CNN] * Iraqi death row inmate claims innocence, confession by torture.[CNN] * Brit convicted for leaking secret Bush-Blair memo. [AP] * AG Gonzales feels he has weathered the Attorneygate storm… [New York Times] * … Meanwhile, another US Attorney firing is revealed. [Washington Post]
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Death Penalty, Deaths, Drugs, Prisons, Sentencing Law, Violence
When This Guy Says It's Time To Change the Formula
Maybe it’s time to change the formula. The inventor of the three-drug cocktail used by many states to carry out the death penalty now believes it’s due for an overhaul. As reported by CNN: “[T]here are other agents that work much faster and much easier,” [Dr. Jay] Chapman said, specifically pointing out an anesthetic called […] -
Anthony Kennedy, Death Penalty, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Kennedy Spares Death Row Inmates
And now back to a more contentious subject: the death penalty. In three opinions issued today, the Supreme Court reversed the convictions of Texas death row inmates. Each of the cases involved a problem with the lower appellate courts’ application of prior SCOTUS rulings on special jury instructions in death penalty cases. All three decisions […] -
Crime, Death Penalty, Iraq, Morning Docket, Television, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 02.23.07
* The war on terror on trial in Miami. [The Nation via How Appealing] * Death for South Carolina cop-killer; I wonder if the fact that he gets to choose between the chair and the needle in SC helps the constitutionality any. [CNN] * 100 years for U.S. soldier in Iraq rape-murder case. [CNN.com] * […]
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5th Circuit, Death Penalty, Enron, Fabulosity, Federal Judges, Judicial Divas, Vanessa Gilmore, You Go Girl
The Honorable Vanessa Gilmore: A Delicious Judicial Diva
If you’re getting tired of our stories about the DOJ’s Shanetta Cutlar and S&C’s Alexandra Korry, we have a new name to add to our rotation of delightfully high-powered, imperious females. Meet Judge Vanessa D. Gilmore (at right), of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Whisper her name out loud: “Vanessa […] -
7th Circuit, Dahlia Lithwick, Death Penalty, Feeder Judges, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Law Firm Mergers, Money, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.13.07
* Dahlia Lithwick on SCOTUS and the death penalty. [Slate] * A panel of the Seventh Circuit is made up entirely of Sixth Circuit judges sitting by designation. Of course, recusal seems to make sense when the defendant plotted to attack the Seventh Circuit’s courthouse. [How Appealing] * Novak testifies: he got the info from […]
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Copyright, Cyberlaw, Death Penalty, Enron, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Ken Lay, Morning Docket, Television, Trials, Wal-Mart, YouTube
Morning Docket: 01.26.07
* When you use YouTube to bootleg 24, the terrorists win. [WSJ Law Blog] * North Carolina doctors refuse to play executioner; executions temporarily blocked. [Jurist] * Wal-Mart agrees to cough up $33 million for overtime violations. [FindLaw] * This wasn’t the law already?. [AP via Yahoo!] * Seven defendants, including the estate of Kenneth […]
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Affirmative Action, Alberto Gonzales, Crime, Dahlia Lithwick, Death Penalty, Department of Justice, Eavesdropping / Wiretapping, Education / Schools, Federal Judges, Habeas Corpus, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jury Duty, Linda Greenhouse, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Senate Judiciary Committee, Sentencing Law, Supreme Court, Trials, War on Terror, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 01.18.07
* AG Gonzales: Federal judges are unqualified to make national security decisions. [MSNBC] * AG Gonzales: Federal judges should be making national security decisions. [MSNBC; Washington Post] * Affirmative action takes center stage at Boalt. [WSJ Law Blog] * Dahlia asks, “Have the Supreme Court’s opinions become suggestions in Texas?” [Slate] * Linda discusses the […]