War on Terror
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9/11, Boring Stuff, Cellphones, Federal Government, HP, Hurricane Katrina, Jeanine Pirro, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Tort Reform, War on Terror, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 09.29.06
* Senate approves broad new rules to try detainees. [New York Times; Bashman linkwrap] * Senate House grandstands over Hewlett-Packard as most witnesses take Fifth; libertarians celebrate that time wasted is time not spent passing new appropriations. [New York Times; WaPo] * Verizon Wireless piles on against H-P. [WSJ Law Blog] * Observers suggest Supreme […]
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Ann Baskins, HP, Morning Docket, Options Backdating, Sex, Sex Scandals, War on Terror, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 09.28.06
Hey, it’s not yet noon — so we can still call this “Morning Docket.” (Sorry for the delay. But if you care about actual legal news, as opposed to our crude musings on them, you really should go here or here instead.) * BREAKING: Ann Baskins just resigned as general counsel of HP. And her […]
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Alice Fisher, Brett Gerry, Confirmations, Department of Justice, John Demers, Ken Wainstein, Supreme Court Clerks, War on Terror
Congratulations to Ken Wainstein!
Okay, so he’s no Alice Fisher — the ball-busting, badass blonde, recently confirmed to head the DOJ’s Criminal Division, who has white-collar criminals shaking in their boots. But he’s still a highly regarded attorney — and pretty cute, too. So ATL sends its congratulations to Kenneth L. Wainstein, just confirmed by the Senate as assistant […]
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Andrew Fastow, Deaths, Drinking, Enron, Eugene Volokh, Jeffrey Skilling, Morning Docket, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 09.21.06
(Yeah, we know, today’s “Morning Docket” is coming in just in time for lunch. Sorry, we overslept…) * Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling is facing 20 to 30 years in prison when he’s sentenced next month — but he can still get himself into even more trouble. Impressive. [Houston Chronicle via WSJ Law Blog] * […]
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9th Circuit, Akin Gump, Ann Baskins, Federal Judges, HP, Judicial Conference, Larry Sonsini, Manuel Real, Morning Docket, Stephen Breyer, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 09.20.06
* The Judicial Conference of the United States, the policy-making body for the federal judiciary (but not the SCOTUS), has announced measures to improve the judiciary’s self-policing and public accountability. They include required installation of “conflict checking” software — get with it, Your Honors, that’s long overdue — and enhanced disclosure concerning judicial junkets. [New […]
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HP, Larry Sonsini, Manuel Real, Morning Docket, War on Terror, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 09.19.06
* More back-and-forth between the Bush Administration and Congress concerning rules to govern the interrogation of terror suspects. The White House sent Congress a revised proposal last night; a deal could be reached by the end of this week. [Washington Post] * More developments in the HP leak investigation scandal. The most interesting: even Larry […]
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Ann Coulter, Anna Nicole Smith, Birthdays, CIA, Comverse, David Souter, Deaths, HP, Morning Docket, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 09.18.06
* Another day, another deepening of the doo-doo over at HP. Now the plot is taking on a “made-for-television-movie” feel: “[D]etectives tried to plant software on at least one journalist’s computer that would enable messages to be traced.” [New York Times] * National security adviser Stephen Hadley indicates that the White House is trying to […]
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Anna Nicole Smith, HP, Milberg Weiss, Morning Docket, Supreme Court, War on Terror, William Lerach
Morning Docket: 09.15.06
* Anna Nicole Smith, the buxom ex-Playmate and victorious Supreme Court litigant, supports a formal inquest into the mysterious death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Wayne Smith. [Associated Press] * SCOTUS groupies, rejoice: Same-day transcripts of Supreme Court oral arguments will be made available, for free, on the Court’s website. [Washington Post; SCOTUSblog] * The […]
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George Ryan, Guantanamo Bay, Morning Docket, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 09.07.06
* President Bush said yesterday that 14 “high-value” terror suspects, who were previously held in secret by the CIA, had been transferred to Guantánamo Bay, for possible trials before military tribunals. Gitmo’s not exactly the Four Seasons Nevis; but we suppose it’s an improvement. [New York Times; Washington Post] * Former Illinois Governor George Ryan […]