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National Law Journal: Selections from Legal Times Afternoon Update March 9, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source:NLJ.com, March 9, 2010.

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Filegate Suits Against Clinton White House Finally Dismissed

"Fourteen years after they began, a federal judge today dismissed the lawsuits over Filegate, closing the book on a scandal that became an ongoing thorn in the side of the Clinton White House and helped launch Larry Klayman into temporary national prominence"

 

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D.C. Circuit: Prosecutor's Remarks Not Enough for Reversal

"A federal prosecutor's questionable remarks during closing argument in a drug trafficking conspiracy case in Washington are not enough to reverse the conviction of a man who is now serving a life sentence, a federal appeals court ruled today. "

 

Drinker Biddle Bakes the Pie In Annual Contest

"This competition was no laughing matter for the three food critics at the office of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs"

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In Search of Volunteer Lawyers for Death Row Inmates

"For several months last year Robin Maher, director of the American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project was feeling like the proverbial Maytag repairman. "I could not even get a return phone call," she said, from law firms she had called in search of volunteers to help the hundreds of death row inmates nationwide who are without counsel. "

 

Panel: Senate Filibuster Not Going Away Soon

"Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have decried the use of the filibuster to block judicial nominations, but those who are frustrated with the process shouldn't expect an immediate change, a panel of Senate experts said today."

 

SUPREME COURT

Milavetz, Gallop & Milabetz, P.A. v. United States

"Recent Bankruptcy Code provision barring "debt relief agencies," including lawyers, from advising clients to incur more debt before filing for bankruptcy relief is not unconstitutionally vague or overbroad (Sotomayor, J.) "

 

Milavetz, Gallop & Milabetz, P.A. v. United States

"A recent Bankruptcy Code provision barring 'debt relief agencies,' including lawyers, from advising clients to incur more debt before filing for bankruptcy relief is not unconstitutionally vague or overbroad."

 

Bloate v. United States

"Time granted to defendant to prepare pretrial motions is not automatically excluded from counting of Speedy Trial Act 70-day limit between filing of federal indictment and commencement of trial (Thomas, J.) "

 

 

 

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