Legal News

Taylor on "Sex Workers'" Show
As a private university, Duke can set any standard of behavior for its student body that it desires. If it wishes to follow the advice of Group of 88 stalwart William Chafe and imitate BYU and Liberty by becoming a dry university, it has every right to do so...

New Federal Prosecutions Data
From TRAC: When monthly 2008 prosecutions of this type are compared with those of the same period in the previous year, the number of filings was up (43 percent). Prosecutions over the past year are still much higher than they were five years ago...

Orin Kerr: Why Do Conservatives Care So Much About the Courts
For conservatives ? especially social conservatives, and especially religious conservatives ? the question has been whether the courts will allow their views, not whether the courts will mandate them.

Editors: Death on a Thursday Morning
Without Richard John Neuhaus, the Christian conservatives in America would have been politically much weaker and intellectually far less formidable.

Sowell: McCains Age
Have we reached the point where we have so many politically correct taboos that we cant even talk sense?

Kurtz: Original Sin
A candidate who effectively cuts out any key element of the Reagan coalition -- be it social conservatives, business conservatives, or national-security conservatives -- is doomed to failure.

The Collateral Cost
Check out Tom Kirkendall of Houston Clear Thinker's post on the Human Cost of Questionable Prosecutions. He remarks on the void in "US mainstream media" on the many collateral consequences of prosecutions, especially prosecutions lacking validity...

The human cost of questionable prosecutions
One of the more discouraging aspects of the societal tide of resentment and scapegoating that has permeated the Enron related criminal prosecutions has been the utter lack of perspective or compassion regarding the horrendous human cost of those prosecutions...

Lexus Inc. and Toyota Motor Sales Inc.
allegedly failed to correct problems with the front passenger air bag system in thousands of 2007 Lexus ES350 vehicles.

Georgette Klinger Spa
alleging unpaid wages and benefits and violation of the WARN Act.

Hardcore Energy Drinks
FDA, Health Canada Warn of Suspected Tampering

Pressure Cooker
Home Shopping Network pays $875,000 civil settlement for failing to warn customers about the dangerous product.

Taylor Bean Faces Federal WARN Class Action
Taylor Bean Federal Employment Class Action Filed