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Stephen Colbert on the Confederate Flag

Posted on June 12, 2008

Justice Kennedy and Yoda

Posted on June 12, 2008
To lighten things up a bit, PrawfsBlawg points to this one-liner from Justice Kennedy in Boumediene that will eternally link him to Star Wars:"Remote in time it may be; irrelevant to the present it is not."

Boumediene and Munaf

Posted on June 12, 2008
I'm sure all of you out there have seen the two big opinions that came out today involving habeas. What has struck me however, is that nobody seems to be comparing the outcome of the two cases.In Boumediene, the U.S. Supreme Court held that aliens held at Guantanamo that are enemy combatants have the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus...

Yes We Can

Posted on February 15, 2008

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Lemons v. Bradbury

Posted on February 01, 2008
Judge Mosman issued an opinion from the bench today that repealed the TRO on the new law allowing civil unions for gay couples. I included the entire opinion below, but you may go to the U.S. District Court of Oregon website or read the PDF :I hope you can appreciate by virtue of havingheard each other's presentations that this is a difficultissue in many ways, that it involves serious questions oflaw and non-frivolous disputes among you about what ought tohappen here...

PreCYdent legal search engine

Posted on January 30, 2008
Check out this new legal search engine. It supposedly ranks cases by authority if you look up a particular term. The idea is great but there are some serious bugs still. The creators are looking for feedback, so here is your chance to help create a search engine that could be useful to lawyers:From The Right Coast:Right now our library consists of all US Supreme Court cases and US Court of Appeals cases going back to the 1950s (i...

Canadian the new Black?

Posted on January 30, 2008
I thought I should pass this on just in case you are called a Canadian or maybe a Canadian lover:From Canada's National Post:Last August, a blogger in Cincinnati going by the name CincyBlurg reported that a black friend from the southeastern U.S. had recently discovered that she was being called a Canadian...

Crack Retroactivity in Oregon

Posted on January 30, 2008
It looks as if the system is working fairly well here in Oregon. The USSC has determined that the crack sentencing disparity should be repaired reroactively for those defendants that received "higher than reasonable" sentences and all sides of the equation seem to be working together...

A Federal Judge on Sentencing

Posted on January 30, 2008
If you haven't seen this list from the Honorable Judge Kopf yet, you're missing out. It was published by the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law and here are a few pieces to whet your appetite:The Top Ten Things I Learned FromApprendi, Blakely, Booker, Rita, Kimbrough and Gall ...

High court upholds New York way of electing judges

Posted on January 17, 2008
If it is possible for Supreme Court justices to uphold a law while holding their noses, that is what happened Wednesday when the court delivered a unanimous victory for party bosses and "smoke-filled rooms" in New York.Justice John Paul Stevens added: "As I recall my esteemed former colleague, Thurgood Marshall, remarking on numerous occasions, 'The Constitution does not prohibit legislatures from enacting stupid laws...

Judge Denounces O.J., Doubles His Bail

Posted on January 17, 2008
Hands cuffed at his waist and a defeated expression on his face, O.J. Simpson listened to a judge blister him Wednesday for "arrogance or ignorance or both" for breaking bail terms in a robbery case.read more | digg story

Former GOP Congressman Indicted for *al Qaida* Fundraising

Posted on January 17, 2008
A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan...

Mike Huckabee eats Fried Squirrel

Posted on January 17, 2008

Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800 Years

Posted on January 17, 2008
In an amazing development, scientists at the University of Southern California have announced that they've extended the lifespan of yeast bacteria tenfold -- and the recipe they used to do it might easily translate into humans.read more | digg story

White House 'recycled' email tapes -- purge?

Posted on January 17, 2008
The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages ? including those pertaining to the CIA leak case ? have been taped over and are gone forever.read more | digg story

'Kite Runner' banned in Afghanistan

Posted on January 17, 2008
The Afghan government has banned "The Kite Runner" film from theaters and DVD shops, an official said Wednesday, though Afghan shop owners with stalls at U.S. military bases are still selling the movie there.read more | digg story

SoCal official's false medal claim defended as free speech

Posted on January 17, 2008
The motion argues that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005, under which water board member Xavier Alvarez was charged, is incompatible with the First Amendment because it restricts free speech by criminalizing false claims of military honors.read more | digg story

Lawmaker Wants DUI Convictions On Licenses

Posted on January 17, 2008
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A state lawmaker wants anyone with a drunken-driving conviction to have it noted on their driver's license.read more | digg story

Bush Exempts Navy From Environmental Law

Posted on January 17, 2008
President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast ? a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals.read more | digg story

FRONTLINE: cheney's law | PBS

Posted on January 17, 2008
For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually unlimited wartime power ... read more | digg story

Forced Rectal Exam Stirs Ethics Questions

Posted on January 17, 2008
A construction worker who lives in Brooklyn asserts that he was forced to undergo a rectal examination after sustaining a head injury in an on-the-job accident in Midtown in 2003.read more | digg story

Death Sentence and Mental Age

Posted on January 16, 2008
A Kentucky death row inmate lost a bid to challenge his death sentence based on mental age after the U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear the case. Thomas Clyde Bowling, 54, had asked the high court to consider if the ban on executing juveniles extended to people whose mental age was less than 18 years old...

Yearlong celebration for historic federal courthouse

Posted on January 16, 2008
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts is scheduled to visit Rhode Island on Feb. 12 to help celebrate the centennial of the federal courthouse in downtown Providence.read more | digg story

Diane Keaton swears on TV

Posted on January 16, 2008
The nation's top TV regulator said it would be difficult for the Federal Communications Commission to take action against ABC stations that aired "Good Morning America" on Tuesday when actress Diane Keaton used the f-word.read more | digg story

Thigs not to say in front of a Judge

Posted on January 16, 2008
Now... you know things are bad when a judge looks at you like you are on fire. You know things are REALLY bad when the judge is looking at you like you are on fire and your defense lawyer is making motions like he wants to strangle you....I just leaned back in my chair and started laughing to myself; I love it when defendants make my case for meread more | digg story

Texas AG's says no-go on MySpace deal

Posted on January 16, 2008
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is concerned that the loopholes in the deal are such that the deal will have appreciable effect on predators seeking children.read more | digg story

Sex In Bathroom Stalls Is Private Says ACLU

Posted on January 16, 2008
ST. PAUL, Minn. - In an effort to help Sen. Larry Craig, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy.read more | digg story

Letters from Working Girls / Letters from Johns

Posted on January 16, 2008
As the titles suggest, the blogs consist of first-hand accounts from real sex workers, and from real clients of sex workers. read more | digg story

Banned at The DoJ

Posted on January 15, 2008
I appreciated your desire to be in tune with DOJ press releases, however, unfortunately I am not able to add you to our distribution list. As you may realize we have a lot of requests to be put on our media lists and we simply are not able to put everyone on the list...

Sinclair Pays Fine for Air Violations

Posted on January 15, 2008
Sinclair Oil Corp., has agreed to pay $2.45 million in civil penalties and reduce emissions from three of its refineries in Wyoming and Oklahoma as part of a clean air settlement with the government, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. read more | digg story

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