Paul L. Boley
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Law in the News

Archive for June, 2006

6/30/2006

Microsoft Faces Class-Action Suit Over Info Collected by Windows Verification Tool

6/29/2006

After Ruling, Uncertainty Hovers at Cuba Prison
:: Supreme Court Decision May Not Slow White House

Not Live From Capitol Hill – The Supreme Court Busts Two for Abuse of the Congressional Record

Supreme Court Blocks Bush, Gitmo War Trials
:: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Insanity Law
:: Clark v. Arizona

Baylor Law Cooking the Ranking Books?

The Patent Office Explains How to Swing

Divided High Court, 5-4, Rules States Need Not Enforce International Treaty
:: Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon (pdf)
:: What Is Left of the Vienna Convention?

Ex-Judge’s Lurid Trial Gets a Rise Out of Jurors

Supreme Court, Under Roberts, Boosts Business Caseload

Justices, 5-2-3-2-2-1-2-2-3, Uphold Most Remapping in Texas by G.O.P.
:: League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry

High Court, 6-2, Rules Prisons May Deny Problem Inmates Access to Newspapers
:: Beard v. Banks

Judge Hints DeLay May Have to Remain on Texas Ballot

6/27/2006

Gay Meant Guilty
:: Today’s Decision Reversing the Grant of a Writ of Habeas Corpus

Prosecutors Say Aryan Brotherhood Used Invisible Ink, Ciphers to Get Messages Past Guards

Republican Senator Accuses Bush of Signing Statement Power Grab

Homeland Security Improperly Limited Employees’ Collective Bargaining Rights
:: National Treasury Employees Union v. Chertoff (pdf)

Key Witness “Disgusted” By Judge’s Behavior

The Myth of the Hands-Off Conservative Jurist

The Effect of Justice Alito

When Lawyers Play Poker

Judge Cracks Down on Prosecutor’s Corporate Corruption Tactic
:: U.S. v. Stein (pdf)

6/26/2006

Supreme Court to Hear Key Climate Change Case

High Profile Patent, Anti-Trust Cases Headed to High Court

Congress Questions Bush’s Claims He Can Ignore Laws He Signs

Prosecutors Drop Request for Library Records
:: National Security Letter Sent to Library Connection (pdf)

Justice Department, Much of D.C. Flooded by Foot of Rain

Justices, 3-1-2-3, Return the ‘Green’ to the Green Mountain State
:: Randall v. Sorrell

Splintered High Court Backs “Obtuse” Death Penalty, 5-4
:: Kansas v. Marsh

Court Rules, 4-1-4, Disabilities Act Does Not Authorize Expert Fees to Prevailing Parents
:: Arlington Central School Dist. v. Murphy

Unusual High Court Split Affirms Defendants’ Right to Counsel of Choice, 5-4
:: U.S. v. Gonzalez-Lopez

Supreme Court Refuses to Play by Ja Rules