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Posted on January 4, 2010 Leave a Comment
Although there was speculation in the summer of last year that U.S. Supreme Court clerks might not be getting $250,000 signing on bonuses during a recession, that hasn’t been the case. While reporting on a feature about clerks (published in today’s Daily Journal), your blogger found out from senior partners at two different firms that […]
Posted on December 30, 2009 Leave a Comment
Not a whole lot happening at the court, as you can see from this photo your blogger took this morning. The court is back in session on Jan. 11. Happy New Year. http://facesoflawsuitabuse.org/polls-archive/
Posted on December 11, 2009 Leave a Comment
A lot has been written and — during arguments at the Supreme Court Tuesday — said about the federal “honest services” fraud statute. The big problem is that it’s so vague, perhaps enough to make it unconstitutional. In fact, as your blogger found out by experimenting on Twitter (see Twitter feed to the right), the […]
Posted on November 30, 2009 Leave a Comment
Your blogger recently interviewed Justice Stephen G. Breyer about the U.K. Supreme Court. The justice attended the court’s opening ceremony in October. The resulting article is in today’s Daily Journal (subscribers only). Here’s a taster: DJ: Did the British justices have their ceremonial robes on? Breyer: They were wearing ceremonial robes. DJ: How did you […]
Posted on November 25, 2009 Leave a Comment
This BBC story about a U.K. Supreme Court ruling includes TV footage of the chief justice reading a summary of the court’s opinion. As readers are aware, the U.S. Supreme Court allows no cameras in the courtroom at any time. Are you watching, Chief Justice Roberts and company?
Posted on November 24, 2009 Leave a Comment
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Posted on November 18, 2009 Leave a Comment
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy clearly wasn’t happy with last week’s New York Times story in which the paper’s Supreme Court reporter, Adam Liptak, revealed that Kennedy’s office had asked a school newspaper to show him a copy of an article before it could be published. In an interview published today in the Wall Street Journal, […]
Posted on November 17, 2009 Leave a Comment
It’s not every day that individual lawyers get a ringing endorsement from the U.S. Supreme Court. But that’s what happened to Stockton, Calif.-based defense lawyer John Schick yesterday. In a per curiam opinion, the court stated decisively that Schick was not guilty of inneffective assistance of counsel when he represented convicted murderer Fernando Belmontes at […]
Posted on November 9, 2009 Leave a Comment
The Supreme Court has repeatedly endorsed the concept that “death is different.” The phrase — and various versions of it — took center stage at today’s double-header argument on juvenile life without parole (Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida). Everyone involved wanted a piece of it. The famous “death is different” phrase was uttered […]
Posted on October 27, 2009 Leave a Comment
Last week, the Supreme Court stopped the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals from authorizing the release of the names of people who signed a petition to put Referendum 71, Washington state’s equivalent of Proposition 8, on the November ballot. If it passes the ballot initiative would repeal the state’s recently passed same sex domestic […]
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