Legal News

There is evidence of a new judicial openness and not before time
Judges traditionally have not spoken to news organisations. But there are real signs of a change in the relationship between judges and the media in recent weeks, with judges themselves taking a new approach.

Judicial Review and the Law of the Land
Philip Hamburger's Law and Judicial Duty (Harvard UP, Nov. 1, 2008) presents a very different history and a very different conception of the power of the judges. Drawing upon previously unexplored evidence, Philip Hamburger reveals the familiar notion of judicial...

Findlaw Commentator: McCain proves judicial activism is a non-issue
"There is an obvious reason why McCain could muster only scant evidence for his rant against liberal judicial activism: Liberal judicial activism, as McCain invokes the term, has been dying for a long time and is now pretty close to dead...

"Judicial Conference OKs New Rules on Complaints"
"Judicial Conference OKs New Rules on Complaints": At "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times," Tony Mauro has a post that begins, "The Judicial Conference today unanimously adopted the first-ever binding procedures for handling judicial misconduct complaints...

Health Care Reform: CED Releases Harnessing Openness to Transform American Health Care
"The Committee for Economic Development (CED)...released a new report – Harnessing Openness to Transform American Health Care (94 pages, PDF)...

NSW Tribunal rules on FOI whisleblower exemption
The Appeal Panel of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal has adopted a narrower interpretation than in previous cases of the exemption in the Freedom of Information Act for"matter relating to a protected disclosure within the meaning of the Protected Disclosure Act 1994" (Clause 20(1)(d))...

Cell Phone Use
Can Increase Risk of Brain Cancer 5 Times

Negligent Death
Family of New York Times reporter awarded undisclosed settlement for medical malpractice.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...