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Archive for April, 2009

4/30/2009

Former ‘Enemy Combatant’ al-Marri Pleads Guilty

Fordham Law Class Collects Personal Info About Scalia; Supreme Ct. Justice Is Steamed

Skepticism at the Court on Validity of Key Section of Voting Rights Act
:: How Can Rights Feel So Wrong?

Why Doesn’t the Criminal Justice System Take Rape Seriously?

3L Dilemma: Will Deferring For a Year Save Their Jobs?

Justice Dept. Seeks Equity in Sentences for Cocaine

There Goes the Neighborhood: Kelo Seizures Now a Fight Over Defining ‘Blight’

Malaysia Rules McDonald’s Has No Monopoly on ‘Mc’

Attorneys Weigh in on Bybee’s Torture Memos
:: Judge Invited to Testify About Role in Interrogation Memos

Top DC Lawyer Shoots Himself In Office One Day After Firm Announces Layoffs

Cal Supremes Let Ruling That Private Schools May Expel Lesbians Stand

Do Adolf Hitler’s Descendants Get a Cut of His Painting Profits?

Gates Hints That Detainees May Be Held on U.S. Soil

Obama Seems to Favor Some Sort of Changes to State Secrets Doctrine

CAFC Vacates TTAB’s “MOSKOVSKAYA” Vodka Ruling, Clarifies 2(e)(3) Materiality Test
:: In re Spirits International (pdf)

U.S. Citizen Wrongly Deported by U.S.

Women Lawyers Feel Betrayed When Female Bosses Aren’t Nurturing

Lawyer Who Traveled While Infected with TB Sues CDC

4/29/2009

Judge Bybee Breaks Silence, Defends Signing Interrogation Memos
:: Pressure Grows to Impeach

Appeals Court Rejects ‘State Secrets’ Claim, Revives Detainee Torture Suit
:: Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan (pdf)

Justice Dept. Opens Antitrust Inquiry Into Google Books Deal
:: Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement

‘Best Lawyers’ Panels Agree That Law Schools, Firms Need Retooling

As the Market Tumbles, So Does the Corporate Pre-Emption Defense

Supreme Court, 7-2, Says No Showing of Intent Necessary for 10-Year Discharge of Weapon Sentence
:: Dean v. U.S.

High Court, 7-2, Allows Testimony of Jailhouse Informant for Impeachment Purposes
:: Kansas v. Ventris

Egypt Orders Slaughter of All Pigs Over Swine Flu

Avatars, Attorneys in New World of Virtual Law

New Boise Law School Delayed

Utah Woman Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail for Texting in Court

Civil Rights Institute Named for Korematsu

4/28/2009

The Next Frontier of Internet Legal Battles

L&C Law’s Meg Garvin on Crime Victims Rights in Environmental Cases
:: National Crime Victim Law Institute