In Weighing Death Penalty, a Flaw in Fact
July 2, 2008
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A blog pointed out that a part of the Supreme Court’s analysis leading it to rule against capital punishment for child rape was based on incorrect information.
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Justice Dept. Admits Error in Not Briefing Court
July 3, 2008
NYT > Washington
The Justice Department said lawyers should have known about a child-rape law relevant to a Supreme Court case.
Editorial: A Supreme Court on the Brink
July 3, 2008
NYT > Opinion
Some of the most important decisions came on 5-to-4 votes — a stark reminder that the court is just one justice away from solidifying a far-right majority.
Again, One Clueless Person Destroys the Privacy Of Millions
July 3, 2008
Mashable! / Stan Schroeder
When you first read about the Google-Viacom lawsuit, you never thought that it would affect you directly, did you? Think again. Judge Louis L. Stanton, presiding over the federal court for the Southern District of New York, has ordered Google to give Viacom the IP addresses and other data about the users who watched YouTube [.
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Chosen for Jury Duty
July 4, 2008
Jumbo Joke: Humor the Way You Like It / Randy
A man was chosen for jury duty who very much wanted to be dismissed from serving. He tried every excuse he could think of but none of them worked. On the day of the trial he decided to give it...
Ah, What the Heck: Random July 4 Blottings
July 4, 2008
The Big Lead / TheBigLead
It’s raining! Booooo. Viacom blows, fight it, Google! Cassie! Tell No One! Jose Reyes and Keith Hernandez nearly come to blows on the Mets charter flight. (NY Post) Friends of A-Rod’s soon-to-be-ex-wife blame the split on Kabbalah, and apparently, Madonna would write the Yanks’ third baseman letters.
Legal fight ahead if badger cull rejected
July 4, 2008
Reuters: Golf News
STONELEIGH (Reuters) - Farmers said on Friday they would launch a legal challenge if the farm ministry rejected as expected next week a badger cull to help tackle bovine tuberculosis in cattle.
Downrevolution.net shut down by Italian police.
July 4, 2008
P2P File Sharing
My ability to read Italian is non-existant but if you head to the Downrevolution site it has clearly been shutdown with a large semi-official notice on the site, as best I can tell, from the Rvenue Officer that states the site has been confined for violations.
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Jury Calls Pool Company Negligent In Boy's Drowning
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Op-Ed Contributor: Shoot to Stun
July 2, 2008
New York Times
As effective less-than-lethal weapons proliferate, the laws of self-defense may ultimately relegate last week’s Second Amendment ruling to the status of an odd little opinion.
Ritchie Capital Battles Investors
July 2, 2008
WSJ.com: Law
Following bad bets and big losses, A.R. Thane Ritchie has barred investors from leaving his hedge fund, Ritchie Capital Management, which is currently valued at $2 billion. One group of investors is suing to get their money back.
Salmon Fishing No Longer Legal In Central Valley
July 3, 2008
CBS 5 - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports
The Department of Fish and Game shut down the fishing season as part of an effort to protect the dwindling stocks of the Sacramento River fall Chinook salmon.
Grasso Wins Court Fight to Keep Pay
July 1, 2008
WSJ.com: Law
A New York state appeals court ruled that former NYSE chief Dick Grasso can keep his $187.5 million in multiyear compensation, ending a bitter public fight over whether he was paid too much. (Ruling)
‘What I Tell You Is Three Times True’ & Other Dispatches From The Bush Terror Regime
July 2, 2008
The Moderate Voice / SHAUN MULLEN, TMV Columnist
THE SNARK AND THE MASTERMIND The more we learn about the Bush torture regime, the more apparent it becomes that there is an interconnectivity between what once seemed random acts and events: False confessions are coerced from tortured detainees using Chinese Communist techniques perfected on U.
Attorney shot to death this morning in San Jose
July 1, 2008
Technology - Apple / lernandez@mercurynews.com (Sean Webby, Linda Goldston and Lisa FernandezMercury News)
After Jason Cai was acquitted two years ago of murdering his wife, her family - convinced of his guilt - pursued a wrongful-death lawsuit.
Lawyer Gunned Down Near SJ Mall, Suspect Arrested
July 1, 2008
CBS 5 - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports
A man who was acquitted in 2006 of murdering his wife is again in police custody, this time on suspicion of gunning down an attorney in the wrongful death lawsuit against him.
YouTube's Legal Fig Leaf
July 3, 2008
Forbes / Andy Greenberg
A court forces the Google-owned video site to spill user data. Will personal information get out?
McCain's Supreme Court Judgment Calls
July 2, 2008
The Trail / Post Editor
By Juliet Eilperin ABOARD THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN PLANE -- While Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) agree on many different policy issues, they apply a different test to voting on judicial nominations, they told reporters Tuesday.
NYT’s Greenhouse: Supreme Court Erred in Child Rape Case
July 2, 2008
WSJ.com: Law Blog - WSJ.com / Dan Slater
For all the national controversy generated by Supreme Court opinions, it’s not often that we find ourselves disagreeing with the justices on the facts. But the NYT’s Linda Greenhouse, who, after 30 years covering the Scotus beat will put away her typewriter this month and report to Yale Law School, thinks she’s caught the Court [.
Editorial: Of Whales and National Security
July 2, 2008
The Supreme Court will have to decide whether the military and the White House should be granted deference when they declare that national security trumps environmental protection.
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Door Prize Lady Charged "To The Full Extent of the Law"
July 4, 2008
TreeHugger
Ghost Bike for Un-named victim, Toronto We were appalled when, after yet another door prize death, a policeman discussed charging the woman who did it and said “If she didn’t look, would that be negligence?
The Legal Dacoity
July 4, 2008
Argentina News Blog,
Posted by Website Introductions: Taxes are the backbone of any economy and no nation or government could survive or carry out administrative tasks without collecting money from the people they govern. But the conflict arises when government tries to collect too much money from its citizens in one form of tax or the other.
What Will Justice Kennedy Have To Say About This?
July 4, 2008
Rhymes With Right / Greg
Personally, I like this sentence. A man was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three teenage girls over two years. A day after finding James Kevin Pope guilty, jurors sentenced him to 40 life.
Motata lawyer calls state witness 'untruthful'...
July 4, 2008
MP3Board.com
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Some aspects of witness Richard Baird's testimony were "untruthful", the lawyer for Judge Nkola Motata told his drunken-driving trial at the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Friday.
Honest Lawyer
July 4, 2008
Is It Beer Time Yet?
An investment counselor went out on her own. She was shrewd and diligent, so business kept coming in. Pretty soon she realized she needed an in-house counsel, and so she began interviewing young lawyers.
Legal action over holiday illness
July 4, 2008
BBC News | Latest Published Stories | UK Edition
A family who fell ill while on holiday in Egypt take legal action against the company that organised the trip.
Physician-assisted suicide should be legal. (End of life issues)
July 4, 2008
Nick Oliva - whereIstand.com
Poeple have an unalienable right to end their own lives.
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