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National Law Journal: Selections from Afternoon Update February 8, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, February 8, 2010.

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Snow Covers Washington Courts

"Scenes from around Judiciary Square in downtown Washington today -- in case you are at home and wondering what it looks like."

 

No Talking, No Texting, No Tweeting

"A committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States has endorsed a set of model jury instructions for district judges to help deter jurors from using cell phones, computers or other electronic technologies during their jury service."

 

Rep. John Murtha Has Died

"Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), a powerful lawmaker who chaired a subcommittee on defense appropriations and was mired in controversy in recent years over his ties to defunct lobbying firm PMA Group, has died"

 

Georgetown Law's Lazarus Named to New Professorship

"With his longtime friend Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. in the audience, Georgetown University Law Center professor Richard Lazarus was officially installed last week as the new William J. Brennan Jr. professor of law at the school."

 

 

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Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on February 09, 2010 (boomark / email).