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Archive for May, 2009

5/29/2009

America’s Prisons: Is There Hope?

Army Vet Looks to Ease Other Soldiers’ Law School Application Experience

Obama Administration Halts Development in Roadless Parts of Federal Forests
:: USDA Roadless Area Conservation Website

Recession Crimps Plans for New Law Schools

Nominee’s Links With Advocates Fuel Her Critics
:: The Myth of Sotomayor’s 60 Percent Supreme Court Reversal Rate
:: Why Judge Sotomayor’s Diabetes Shouldn’t Be Ignored

Cuomo Widens a Probe Into Immigration Fraud

How NFL’s Patriots Would Draft Law Firm Associates

Attorney Under Fire, Forwarded Revealing Photo to Inmate Client

Debt-Free J.D. Degree for Public Interest Work Is Paid For By Texas Law Firm

Spector Sentenced to 19 Years to Life in Fatal Shooting of Actress

Law Firm Sues Google for Right to Its Name

5/28/2009

FDA Says Cheerios Marketed Like an Unapproved New Drug

Dirty Laundry Aired: The Fight Over Revealing Divorce Details

Challenge to Pit Bull Ban Revived by Federal Appeals Court
:: Dias v. Denver (pdf)

U.S. Manga Obscenity Conviction Roils Comics World

Internet Child Porn Search Constitutes ‘Knowing Possession,’ Court Rules
:: Pennsylvania v. Diodoro (pdf)

At Yale, Sotomayor Won Apology From Law Firm

Bush v. Gore Foes Join to Fight Gay Marriage Ban

5/27/2009

L&C Law Dean Klonoff: Sotomayor ‘Always Willing to Speak Up’ at Yale Law
:: Dean Klonoff on Who Is Sonia Sotomayor (video)
:: Rulings Are Exhaustive but Often Narrow

Ex-Detainee Boumediene Describes Struggle for Exoneration

There is No Justification for Torture

Prop. 8’s Next Battleground: Federal Court

‘Serial Wildlife Killer’ Draws Jail Sentence, Lifetime Hunting Ban

Antitrust Laws a Hurdle to Health Care Overhaul

Posner & Easterbrook in Action During Oral Argument on Incorporation of a Right to Arms

Lawyer Challenging Reported Pfizer Settlement Over Drug Study in Nigeria

5/26/2009

Cal Supreme Court Upholds Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Lets Pre-Prop 8 Marriages Stand
:: Strauss v. Horton (pdf)

Obama Selects Sotomayor for Court
:: L&C Law Dean Robert Klonoff on His Former Classmate

Cal Supreme Court to Issue Prop. 8 Decision Today
:: Check Here for Decision. Expected at 10am PST

Cheating 2.0: New Twists Confront Law Schools

Supreme Court, 5-4, Overturns Michigan v. Jackson, Allows Suspects to Be Interrogated Without a Lawyer
:: Montejo v. Louisiana (pdf)

High Court, 5-4, Says States Can’t Bar Some Rights Suits
:: Haywood v. Drown (pdf)