Jose Padilla

* Jose Padilla gets 17 years. [New York Times; Washington Post] * A merger between Anderson Kill and Reed Smith? Maybe not. But 55 of Anderson Kill’s 126 lawyers have decamped for Reed Smith. [WSJ Law Blog; WSJ Law Blog] * Ted Frank on yesterday’s Enron cert denial: Extortion, interrupted? [New York Sun] * China […]

No official announcement has been made (despite the claim of Wikipedia that “[o]n September 16, 2007, President George W. Bush nominated Mukasey to serve as the 81st Attorney General of the United States”). But numerous news outlets are reporting that President Bush has selected Michael B. Mukasey — currently a partner at Patterson Belknap Webb […]

* Ann Althouse is a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School this year — and they’ve put her up in an apartment with some pretty sweet views. (Perhaps she can see 125 Broad Street, home of Sullivan & Cromwell, where she once worked as an associate.) [Althouse] * Pope Benedict: Tax evasion is sinful (in […]

Jose Padilla: committed al-Qaida terrorist, or harmless (and not very good) student of Arabic? After a three month trial, the jury deliberated for a day and a half. Now they’ve reached a verdict. We’ll bring you the details as soon as we have them. A day and a half isn’t very long given the length […]

From the NYT Reporter’s Notebook on the Jose Padilla trial (previously linked to here): Prosecutors have tried to prove Mr. Padilla’s guilt with a training camp application they say he filled out and wiretapped phone conversations in which he took part or was discussed. But they have no witnesses who saw Mr. Padilla fill out […]