Supreme Court
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Animal Law, CIA, Crime, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Morning Docket, Politics, SCOTUS, Securities Law, Sports, Supreme Court, Television
Morning Docket: 01.16.08
* Gov. Romney wins Michigan. [CNN] * Sen. Clinton faces challenge from “uncommitted.” [CNN] * NV Supreme Court overturns decision allowing Rep. Kucinich to debate. [MSNBC] * Criminal prosecutions of Blackwater security guards would not be easy. [New York Times] * Did CIA lawyers and officials implicitly sign off on the destruction of interrogation tapes? […]
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SCOTUS, Securities Law, Supreme Court, Wall Street
SCOTUS Sets Limits on Securities Fraud Cases
Earlier this hour, the Supreme Court handed down its eagerly anticipated ruling in the Stoneridge case. See collected links below, to posts by Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog and Ashby Jones at the WSJ Law Blog. The opinion itself is available here (PDF). Lyle Denniston writes: The Supreme Court, in one of the most important securities […] - Sponsored
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Andrew Speaker, Fast Food, Intellectual Property, Morning Docket, Music, Pakistan, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 11.28.07
* Oral argument in New Jersey v. Delaware. [U.S. Supreme Court (PDF) via How Appealing] * I’ll have a Joey Bag of Lawsuits. [AP via Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * TB Andy didn’t hurt anybody. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * Grandpa got screwed over by a lawsuit … [AP via Reno Gazette-Journal] * Pakistan lets (almost) everyone go, but […]
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John Paul Stevens, Media and Journalism, Morning Docket, Politics, SCOTUS, Sports, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 11.23.07
* Feds use real-time tracking data from cellphones to locate criminal suspects. It’s like Dodgeball for the bad guys. [Washington Post] * Barry Bonds to bulk up… his legal team. [New York Times] * Spotlight on Justice Stevens — and the SCOTUS post-JPS. [Los Angeles Times via How Appealing] * Interview with neo-Nazi triggers German […]
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Guns / Firearms, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Goody Goody Gunshots: SCOTUS Grants Cert in Gun Control Case...
Sending chills up the spines of real estate finance casebooks everywhere. Court agrees to rule on gun case [SCOTUSblog] High Court to Take D.C. Gun Ban Case [Washington Post] Justices to Hear Gun Control Case [New York Times] -
Antonin Scalia, Hotties, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: OT 2008 (Update #8)
In terms of feeding his current crop of clerks to the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Judge Michael Boudin (1st Cir.) is batting 1.000. We received this tip from multiple sources, but here’s the most interesting iteration: Moshe Spinowitz (HLS ’06/Boudin) has been hired by Justice Scalia for October 2008. Spinowitz, or Spino, as he’s known, […] -
Old People, Romance and Dating, Sandra Day O'Connor, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Justice O'Connor's Bizarre Love Triangle Ailing Husband(And an ATL Special Report on Her Columbia Law School Visit)
Back in July 2005, shortly after Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her resignation from the Supreme Court, Professor Orin Kerr wrote an L.A. Times op-ed about how the Court might be affected by her departure. Its provocative title: O’Connor’s Successor Will Likely Be a Swinger. We were reminded of Professor Kerr’s op-ed when we read […] -
Email Scandals, Guns / Firearms, Melvyn Weiss, Milberg Weiss, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Sports, Supreme Court, Trials
Morning Docket: 11.13.07
* You’ve got mail! And you better hold on to it. [CNN] * Both sides shooting to get SCOTUS to hear D.C. gun case. [New York Times] * Milberg Weiss asking for home court advantage in trial. [WSJ Law Blog] * Can anybody do anything based on the Mitchell Report? [Sports Illustrated]
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Clerkships, Job Searches, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: OT 2008 (Update #6)
People, you’ve been holding out on us. We’ve been hearing rumors about more Supreme Court law clerk hiring taking place for the next Term (October Term 2008). For example, there’s gossip going around that Justice Samuel Alito has hired a clerk from Judge Harris Hartz (10th Cir.). We’ve also heard a rumor to the effect […] -
Crime, Death Penalty, Michael Mukasey, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Torture, White-Collar Crime, William Lerach
Morning Docket: 10.30.07
* The war on punitive damages continues. [USA Today via How Appealing] * Suspect from Burning Man burning to burn something else. [Reno Gazette-Journal] * Senators want clarification from Mukasey on waterboarding. [Jurist] * Lerach pleads guilty. [Los Angeles Times] * Do we have a de facto moratorium on executions pending this term’s SCOTUS lethal […]
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Books, Clarence Thomas, Death Penalty, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, State Judges, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 10.18.07
* Clarence Darrow? How cliche. Anywho, this guy is now a New Mexico Supreme Court justice. [Albuquerque Journal (free trial pass required) and New Mexico Business Weekly, via How Appealing] * Step 1: Stop killing monks. [Jurist] * Death for the death penalty? [New York Times] * Latham lawyer DQ’ed in KPMG trial. [WSJ Law […]
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Death Penalty, Michael Mukasey, Michael Vick, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Sports, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 10.18.07
* So how did Michael Mukasey do yesterday? Here’s a collection of some coverage. [How Appealing (linkwrap)] * He totally should have mailed it to himself before faxing it to the Ravens. Also, not a joke, just a fact: the caption is over half of this 37-page opinion. [U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth […]
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Crime, Law Professors, Melvyn Weiss, Michael Vick, Milberg Weiss, Morning Docket, O.J. Simpson, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Technology
Morning Docket: 10.16.07
* O.J. freshly squeezed by a second co-defendant. [AP via Athens Banner-Herald] * Law professors get appointed to do everything. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * Nevada holds off on an execution, waiting on SCOTUS. [Reno Gazette-Journal] * Weiss pleads not guilty. [Jurist] * iPoison. [PC World]
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Antonin Scalia, Arlen Specter, Books, Clarence Thomas, David Souter, Dick Cheney, Fabulosity, John Roberts, Michael Chertoff, Parties, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court, Television
Liveblogging the Clarence Thomas Book Party
Welcome. If you’re at home, tune in to C-SPAN, which is rebroadcasting the recent book party for Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Thomas’s eagerly anticipated memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, is now in bookstores — and topping the bestseller charts (to the relief of his publisher, HarperCollins, which reportedly paid him a $1.5 million advance). 7:05: The […] -
Celebrities, Crime, Dahlia Lithwick, Deaths, Divorce Train Wrecks, Environment / Environmental Law, Iraq, Morning Docket, Rape, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Weddings
Morning Docket: 10.12.07
* Al Gore, law school dropout, wins Nobel Peace Prize. [WSJ Law Blog; Washington Post; New York Times] * Houston crime lab drops the ball, again. [CNN] * Iraqi families sue Blackwater in U.S. court. [CNN] * Lithwick’s take on the interesting SCOTUS case, Medellin v. Texas. [Slate] * McCartney-Mills divorce settlement could break records. […]
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Blogging, Brian Valery, Jeffrey Toobin, Law Professors, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Non-Sequiturs, Paralegals, Prostitution, SCOTUS, Screw-Ups, Supreme Court, Weirdness
Non-Sequiturs: 10.10.07
* Check it out: the Los Angeles Daily Journal has a brand new blog. Welcome to the blogosphere, Mr. Hurley! [Washington Briefs] * Don’t you wish you had attended a non-top-tier non-T14 law school? At U. Conn. Law, Professor Robert Birmingham (at right) screens prostitution training films in class. [TaxProf Blog] * ESPN’s Stephen Smith […] -
Crime, Gay, Howard Bashman, Jack Thompson, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Pornography, SCOTUS, Sex, Sports, Supreme Court
Non-Sequiturs: 10.04.07
* He likes ’em young. [WNBC] * WSJ Law Blog follows SCOTUS comedy. [WSJ Law Blog] * More Jack Thompson chicanery. [GamePolitics] * In keeping with the non-top-tier theme, here’s a Tier 4 that’s moving. [WRAL] * Sorry, Howard Bashman. [Yahoo!] -
Admin, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Programming Note: A Pair of SCOTUS Previews
We have to step away for a bit. We’re attending this panel discussion, in which various Supreme Court experts will offer a preview of the upcoming Term. We also plan to attend another SCOTUS preview panel, taking place on Friday morning, focused specifically on the Court’s business-law cases. But fear not; we’ve arranged for content […] -
Anna Nicole Smith, Celebrities, Defamation, DUI / DWI, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 09.26.07
* SCOTUS to hear some pretty interesting cases next term. [Washington Post; New York Times; CNN] * Apparently, Ross Perot owns the Magna Carta, for now. [CNN] * Jack Bauer arrested for DUI, was allegedly speaking in an urgent, raspy tone. [MSNBC] * Attorney sues Larry Birkhead for defamation. [MSNBC] * Calls for campus paper […]
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Blogging, Celebrities, Jury Duty, Law Schools, Michael Vick, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, Solo Practitioners, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Non-Sequiturs: 09.25.07
* We know you guys never tire of talking about the tough job market for graduates of non-top-tier law schools. Here is Sam Kamin’s take on Amir Efrati’s WSJ piece. [PrawfsBlawg] * Can’t get a Biglaw gig, perhaps because you’re a Tier 2 (or Tier 3 or Tier 4) grad? Why not hang out your […]