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National Law Journal: Selections from Legal Times Afternoon Update January 28, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, January 28, 2010.

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Ex-Judge of Pants Suit Fame Takes Swipe at Federal Bench

"Roy Pearson Jr., the former D.C. administrative law judge who famously sued over a lost pair of pants, is now picking a fight with U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle."

 

Former U.S. Attorney Roscoe Howard Jumps to Andrews Kurth

"Roscoe Howard Jr., who served as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia from 2001 until 2004, has joined the Washington office of Houston-based Andrews Kurth."

 

'Birther' Orly Taitz Takes on Obama in D.C. Federal Court

"California lawyer-dentist Orly Taitz, a vocal member of the "birther" movement, is hitting the nation's capital to try to persuade a federal judge here in Washington that President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen."

 

Leahy Lashes Out at Citizens United Ruling

"Continuing the Capitol Hill drumbeat against the Supreme Court that President Barack Obama started last night in his State of the Union address, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy this morning called the Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC a 'threat to the rule of law.' The Vermont Democrat took to the floor of the Senate to attack the decision and assert that it was made possible only by the changed composition of the Court, rather than legal reasoning."

 

Women Still Under-Represented on the Bench

"Women currently make up 22% of all federal judges, a new study has found, and 26% of state-level judges. The study by the University at Albany-SUNY's Center for Women in Government and Civil Society found that only two states - New Jersey and Connecticut - had achieved a "critical mass" of 33% women among the state's federal judgeships."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on January 29, 2010 (boomark / email).