Monday, February 06, 2012
Courts - "Kentucky rulings can affect some fairly unusual events"
Andrew Wolfson of the Louisville Courier Journal has a lengthy story today - here he sets up the premise:Do you...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, February 06, 2012
Courts - "McDonald's strip-search hoax turned into movie without victim's knowledge"
Recall this ILB entry from March 27, 2010 headed "Kentucky Appeals court upholds $6.1 million strip-search verdict against McDonald's." Saturday,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, February 06, 2012
Friday, February 03, 2012
Courts - Banks created "bizarre and complex end-around of the traditional public recording system"
MERS in the spotlight. "New York Sues 3 Big Banks Over Mortgage Database" is the headline to a story from...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, February 03, 2012
Courts - More on "9th Circuit won't release CA gay marriage trial videos"
Yesterday we learned (ILB entry here) the 9th Circuit won't permit the release of the video of the Prop. 8...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, February 03, 2012
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Courts - "9th Circuit won't release CA gay marriage trial videos"
New AP story in the Seattle Times, reported by Lisa Leff, subheaded "A federal appeals court refused Thursday to unseal...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, February 02, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Courts - SCOTUS Fails to Communicate Effectively to Public
In the Blog of Legal Times, Tony Mauro reports on law dean Erwin Chemerinsky's recent speech, part of a recent...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Courts - Studies of tweets by federal court jurors
Check out this post and the links from Joe Palazzolo of WSJ Law Blog....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, January 26, 2012
Courts - In NY, "A Judgeship With Prestige, and, Oh, What a Grand Room"
William Glaberson's story today in the NY Times begins with a photo of "The chambers occupied by the top judge...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, January 26, 2012
Courts - More on: "WICHITA, Kan. -- U.S. Senior District Judge Wesley Brown has died at age 104"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, the NY Times has an obituary today written by A.G. Sulzberger. Some quotes:Judge Wesley E. Brown,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, January 26, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Courts - "Illinois trials may soon be televised: State Supreme Court to scrap camera ban, allow pilot program"
That is the headline to this story today by By Ryan Haggerty of the Chicago Tribune. The long story begins:The...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Courts - More on Jones v. State
Tom Goldstein, founder of SCOTUSblog, has a long entry today on the SCOTUS decision this week in Jones v. State,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Courts - "WICHITA, Kan. -- U.S. Senior District Judge Wesley Brown has died at age 104"
Ron Sylvester of McClatchy Newspapers has the story in the Kansas City Star. The long, interesting story includes:"I hope to...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Courts - "Why the GPS-Tracking Case is Just the Beginning for the Supreme Court"
See Nicholas J. Wagoner's Circuit Splits Blog post today under that heading. A sample:It's worth noting that when the Court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Courts - Retroactivity of SORNA
The ILB has had a number of entries, including this one from June 1, 2010, on the question of the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Courts - More on "Supreme Court rules warrant needed for GPS tracking"
Listen to Nina Totenberg's four and a half minute report on yesterday's ruling in Jones here, via NPR. Or read...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Courts - "Supreme Court rules warrant needed for GPS tracking"
More on this morning's SCOTUS ruling in Jones. Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY Lyle Dennison, SCOTUSblog Adam Liptak, NY Times Robert...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, January 23, 2012
Courts - Notable SCOTUS opinions this morning
Reynolds v. United States (SCOTUSblog case page here). From this morning's SCOTUSblog "live blog":Amy: We have the second opinion in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, January 23, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Courts - 10th Circuit rules sex offenders have right to libraries
The Chicago Tribune today has a story by Keith Coffman of Reuters. The story begins:A federal appeals court ruled on...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, January 21, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Courts - "SCOTUS rejects appeals in student speech cases"
A brief AP story reports that the SCOTUS this morning rejected two cases re "whether schools may censor students who...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Courts - "SCOTUS rejects appeal over prayer at public meeting"
A brief AP story reports that the SCOTUS this morning rejected:... an appeal from a North Carolina county commission over...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Courts - "The Supreme Court gets the full-monty treatment"
Brilliant and normally staid attorney/journalist Dahlia Lithwick has a hilarious column today in Slate. I LOL at paragraph 2....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Courts - "Cheerleader punctures website’s immunity"
Patrick Murphy, in the blog Benchmarks, has an interesting post today that begins:The Communications Decency Act presents a formidable obstacle...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Courts - "SCOTUS rules against man convicted by eyewitness ID"
Mark Sherman's AP report begins:WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined Wednesday to extend constitutional safeguards against the use of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Courts - SCOTUS "Supreme Court overturns New Orleans man's murder conviction"
Following up on these two earlier ILB entries on Smith v. Cain, Joan Biskupic's story today in USA Today begins:The...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Sunday, January 08, 2012
Courts - In a number of states, "Legislators Are Out to Take Over Their State Judiciary Systems"
A few quotes from a lengthy Jan. 1. 2012 story in the ABA Journal, written by John Gibeaut:[I]n the wake...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, January 08, 2012
Saturday, January 07, 2012
Courts - SCOTUS to hold oral arguments on three major election law cases on Monday
Lyle Denniston of the SCOTUSblog has posted a long argument preview that begins:Just as the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling two...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, January 07, 2012
Friday, January 06, 2012
Courts - Do the community caretaking exception set forth in Cady applies to warrantless searches of homes?
"New Exception Allowing Warrantless Home Entries Headed to the High Court?" is the heading to this entry by Nicholas J....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, January 06, 2012
Friday, December 23, 2011
Courts - "Illinois Supreme Court clarifies law on noncompete agreements"
Ameet Sachdev's Chicago Law, a column in the Chicago Tribune, reports today in a story that begins:In an era when...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 23, 2011
Courts - "What is the proper response to a courtroom wailer? Look away? Tell him or her to man up? "
That question is examined in this story today in the NY Times today reported by William Glaberson. Some quotes:Courthouse regulars...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 23, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Courts - "The very fine and ideologically unaligned Indiana Law Blog ..."
That wonderful endorsement from the State Bar of Michigan blog introduces their Dec. 5, 2011 post headed "Indiana Supreme Court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Courts - "Sentencing Proportionality in the States"
Sentencing Law and Policy points to "this notable student note now available via SSRN by Gregory Schneider."...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Courts - Part 2 of "3 Reasons Why Circuit Splits Matter"
The most recent entry from Nicholas J. Wagoner, of the blog Circuit Splits. And here is Part 3....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 18, 2011
Courts - More on "Ray Charles could see that signature was doctored"
This ILB entry from March 3, 2011, began:According to this AP story, Pennsylvania state Sen. Jane Orie, R-Allegheny, 49 "and...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 18, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Courts - "At least 600 DUI cases in jeopardy because of lapsed Breathalyzer certifications"
That is the headline to this Dec. 15th story by Jason Riley in the Louisville Courier Journal that begins:Alcohol breath...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 16, 2011
Courts - Part 1 of "3 Reasons Why Circuit Splits Matter: Enhanced Certworthiness"
The latest entry from Nicholas J. Wagoner, of the blog Circuit Splits....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 16, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Courts - 6th Circuit "to hear newspaper’s appeal to unseal Fair Finance search records"
Ed Meyer of the Akron Beacon Journal reports in a story that begins:A federal appeals court will hear oral arguments...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 15, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Courts - "ACLU Sues Over Voter-ID Law "
A few quotes from a Wall Street Journal story ($$$), dated Dec. 13, 2011, written by Amy Merrick:As new state...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Courts - A blog about cases ripe for review
AppellateDaily points to a new blog, Circuit Splits. The two most recent entries are on the Arizona immigration case and...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Courts - "Another landmark ruling in the offing"
Lyle Denniston's just-posted SCOTUSblog entry today begins:Adding further to the historic rank of the Supreme Court’s current Term, the Justices...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 12, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Courts - "Statewide Coordination of Problem-Solving Courts: A Snapshot of Five States"
From the press release from the U.S. Department of Justice:This report highlights five states (California, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, and New...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 11, 2011
Courts - "Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Irv Maze declared a mistrial after some potential jurors said they had read a story about the suit published that morning in The Courier-Journal"
On the morning of Dec. 5, 2011 the Louisville Courier Journal ran a long, front-page story, reported by Andrew Wolfson,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 11, 2011
Courts - "Status Offenders: Kentucky among nation's leaders in jailing children"
The Louisville Courier Journal today has a "Sunday exclusive" on Status Offenders. The intro:Kentucky judges are jailing youths for truancy...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 11, 2011
Friday, December 09, 2011
Courts - "Oregon judge rules bloggers aren't journalists"
Steven Musil of CNET has the story here. A quote from the story:Despite Oregon's legal definition of "any medium of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 09, 2011
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Courts - "Murder conviction overturned because of tweeting, sleeping jurors"
See How Appealing entry....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 08, 2011
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Courts - Supreme Court still looking at confrontation clause
Tom Goldstein, Supreme Court guru, had a preview article yesterday at SCOTUSblog about today's argument in:... Williams v. Illinois, the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Courts - "Congress Considers Televising Supreme Court Arguments"
Today at 10 AM the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing entitled “Access to the Court: Televising the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Monday, December 05, 2011
Courts - Changes to Federal Rules took effect Dec. 1, 2011
Brief details here....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 05, 2011
Saturday, December 03, 2011
Courts - Advice on building an appellate practice
Last month Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog invited comments to appellate practitioners: "on building an appellate practice, including a Supreme Court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, December 03, 2011
Friday, December 02, 2011
Courts - "Bankruptcy filings botched: Judges cracking down on paid preparers who pocket fees, overcharge clients, wreck paperwork"
That is the headline to a lengthy "Watchdog Report" in the Nov 30, 2011 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, written by Cary Spivak,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 02, 2011
Courts - "Kentucky officials agree to produce records in fatal child abuse, neglect cases"
From a long story by Deborah Yetter in the Louisville Courier-Journal:FRANKFORT, KY. — Kentucky officials said Wednesday they will begin...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 02, 2011
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Courts - "Flat-fee contracting for indigent defense is used in more than a dozen states around the country"
"States beginning to rethink indigent defense systems" is the title to this story by Maggie Clark, Stateline staff writer. A...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 01, 2011
Courts - "College Athletes Move Concussions Into the Courtroom"
That is the headline to a very long story by George Vecsey of the NY Times, published yesterday. A quote:[Derek...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 01, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Courts - Despite reports to the contrary, law student finds "Twombly, Iqbal rulings have 'substantial impact'"
From an interesting "On the Case" column, dated 11/28/2011, by Alison Frankel:In March, the Federal Judicial Center put out a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Courts - "An Illinois Court Weighs in on the Protection of Anonymous Internet Message Board Speech"
Julie Hilden has posted a long article for Justia's Verdict - some quotes:When you post an anonymous message on an...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Courts - "Tribune Co. bankruptcy case haunting former shareholders: Creditors poised to go after even the smallest investors to claw back billions"
Did you ever own stock in the Tribune Company? Michael Oneal and Ameet Sachdev, Chicago Tribune reporters, had a massive...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 28, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Courts - "End the ban on cameras in the Supreme Court"
From an editorial published Nov. 25th in the Washington Post:IN MARCH, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear one of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 27, 2011
Courts - "Few offices have fought post-conviction evidence with as much gusto as the Lake County state’s attorney’s office, which is coming under increased scrutiny for an alarming number of [perceived] wrongful convictions"
A very long article in the NY Times Magazine today, reported by Andrew Martin, looks at the case against Juan...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 27, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Courts - Might the health care litigation finally get SCOTUS to open up to cameras?
So asks the Sentencing Law blog in this entry. Surely the time has come ......Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Courts - "Storied high court: Justices bring life to oral arguments"
See the Nov. 17th feature story by Joan Biskupic of USA TODAY. A sample:Oral arguments, which run October to April...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, November 19, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Courts - "Church Turns to Higher Authority in Zoning Battle"
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (“RLUIPA”)is the focus of a lengthy story $$$ by Jess...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, November 18, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Courts - "Are Pennsylvania’s ‘Presentments’ Fair to Defendants?"
That is the heading to this entry today by Ashby Jones in the WSJ Law Blog. Jones also wrote this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 17, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Courts - "Fanon Rucker to run for Supreme Court"
From Cincinnati.com, a story from Kimball Perry. Some quotes:Fanon Rucker wants to follow in his father's footsteps. Rucker is a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 14, 2011
Courts - Law Professors' briefs: "This entire discussion may be, for want of a better word, academic"
Adam Liptak's law column this Monday in the NYTimes looks at law professors friend-of-court filings. A sample:The health care brief...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 14, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS to review health care law
Follow the developing stories here, at SCOTUSblog....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 14, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Courts - "Despite title, U.S. Supreme Court not always last word"
A very interesting report today by Mark Sherman of the AP. Here it is in the Stamford Advocate and at...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 13, 2011
Courts - Two modern SCOTUS justices with Indiana connections
Dan Carden in the NWI Times today, in a story headed "Region ties fostered friendship between U.S. Supreme Court justices,"...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 13, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Courts - More on: Missouri trial court throws out law based on one-subject requirement
Updating this ILB entry from April 1, 2011 (that includes a link to the 1994 opinion cited, Hammerschmidt v. Boone),...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, November 11, 2011
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Court - "Judges Weigh Phone Tracking "
If you have access to the WSJ, this is an interesting article, reporting that cellphone tracking by authorities is far...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Courts - "An angry Court gives New Orleans prosecutors a scolding"
Smith v. Cain, the case in which the SCOTUS agreed to consider another legal challenge to prosecutorial conduct in the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Courts - More on: "Do Police Need Warrants For GPS Tracking Devices?"
Updating this ILB entry from this morning, Prof. Orin Kerr of the Volokh Conspirary attended this morning's argument and has...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Courts - "Do Police Need Warrants For GPS Tracking Devices?"
United States v. Jones, the GPS tracking case, is being heard today before the SCOTUS. Nina Totenberg had an excellent,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Friday, November 04, 2011
Courts - "Ruling could save Hoosier Park millions"
From the Nov. 2nd Anderson Herald Bulletin, some quotes from a long story by Abbey Doyle that begins:ANDERSON, Ind. —...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, November 04, 2011
Courts - The variability of the writing of two judges known to write their own opinions, Richard A. Posner and Frank Easterbrook, was markedly lower and more consistent than any current or recent Justices on the SCOTUS
That is (a paraphrase of) one of the findings of a summary taken from Judicial Ghostwriting: Authorship on the Supreme...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, November 04, 2011
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Courts - "Supreme Court examines reliability of eyewitness testimony"
Joan Biskupic of USA TODAY has a long story today about the oral argument before the SCOTUS yesterday in the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 03, 2011
Courts - More on "Change in crack sentencing means early releases"
Updating yesterday's entry, Dan Browning and Pam Louwagie of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune have a lengthy story today detailing the nuts...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 03, 2011
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS denied cert in case re the distinction between off-campus and on-campus speech
"U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear High School Free Speech Case in Burlington" was the headline to this long story...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Courts - "Change in crack sentencing means early releases"
From USA TODAY yesterday, a long story, including:The disparity in sentences for crack versus powder had long been criticized as...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Courts - "In sum, the Court's current approach to state court decisions is to ignore all but the biggest errors"
That is a quote from Jason Mazzone, a law prof at Brooklyn Law School, blogging at Balkinization....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Courts - More on: "Two Cases Tied To Dubious Legal Advice Reach High Court"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, David G. Savage's story today in the LA Times is headed "Supreme Court hesitates to extend...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Cracking down on courtroom networking: Judges try to control juries in the age of Facebook
Ameet Sachdev, Chicago Tribune law reporter, had this story Oct. 30th. Some quotes from the long story:Judges have long instructed...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
Courts - "Obesity Fuels Custody Fights: Ex-Spouses Hurl Accusations in Court About Their Kids' Nutrition and Exercise"
Ashby Jones and Shirley S. Wang had the long story in the Oct. 29th WSJ. It begins:The nation's waistline is...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 31, 2011
Courts - "Two Cases Tied To Dubious Legal Advice Reach High Court"
That is the heading to Nina Totenberg's story this morning on NPR's Morning Edition. A quote:On Monday the U.S. Supreme...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 31, 2011
Courts - "Supreme Court to take another look at prosecutorial misconduct"
"Cruel but Not Unusual: Clarence Thomas writes one of the meanest Supreme Court decisions ever" was the heading to a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Courts - "Trial reveals distrust between gun club, county"
Tacoma Washington is the site of this very long story from Oct. 29, published in the Kitsap Sun, interesting because...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Courts - Yet more on: Lobbyist linked to Abramoff quits Indianapolis firm [Updated]
Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 20th,2011, USA TODAY is reporting:WASHINGTON (AP) – A former lobbyist who was a rising...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Courts - "John Stinneford on the Court’s Eighth Amendment jurisprudence"
From SCOTUSblog, this long entry by guest John Stinneford, summarizing his 80-page Virginia Law Review article. A sample:The limited impact...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Courts - "Can a City Broadly Ban People From Soliciting Work, Business, or Contributions on Its Streets and Highways? A Ninth Circuit En Banc Majority Says No"
Julie Hilden, a Justia columnist, has posted this article today on an issue as relevant to Indianapolis as to the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 17, 2011
Courts - "Telegram for the Federal Circuit: Electronic Case Filing Is Now Available"
That is the heading to this entry by Andrew Dhuey at Patently-O Blog. The entry points out that:[T]here is usually...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 17, 2011
Law - U.S. v. Jones, the GPS tracking case, is scheduled for argument in early November
Here is the SCOTUSblog page collecting documents on the case, which is to be argued Nov. 8th. The issue:Whether the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 17, 2011
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Courts - "A Judge’s Education, a Sentence at a Time"
Judge Denny Chin of Federal District Court in Manhattan and the thought process behind his sentencing decisions is the subject...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, October 09, 2011
Courts - More on "Reliability Of Eyewitness Testimony Under Scrutiny"
Supplementing this ILB entry from Sept. 1st, and this one from Aug. 22nd that was headed "Memory should be treated...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, October 09, 2011
Courts - "Ohio high court drawn into magnetic-homes case"
David Eggert reported the story in last Wednesday's Columbus Dispatch. Some quotes:After they moved into brand-new homes, two Canal Winchester...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, October 09, 2011
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Courts - Justice Stevens' Memoir
How Appealing today collects links to articles on Justice Stevens' memoir. From Adam Liptak's story today in the NY Times:In...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Courts - More on "Immigration law may face federal test: Justice Department considers challenge in Indiana, other states"
Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 30th, quoting a story by Heather Gillers and Tim Evans in the Indianapolis Star,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Monday, October 03, 2011
Courts - "Open Up High Court to Cameras"
Kenneth W. Starr, the president of Baylor University, and formerly a federal appellate judge, solicitor general and independent counsel, argues...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 03, 2011
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Courts - Still more on: ChicagoTribune wins suit over U of Illinois clout list
Updating this ILB entry from July 14, 2011, see this story in yesterday's Chicago Tribune by Carla K. Johnson headed...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, October 02, 2011
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Courts - "The Top 10 Supreme Court Previews"
From Andrew Cohen of The Atlantic. This is Part 3, the earlier parts are linked at the top of the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 01, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Courts - "Videotape and the Scope of Traffic Stops Under the Fourth Amendment"
See this Volokh Conspiracy entry by Orin Kerr "about the Fifth Circuit new decision in United States v. Macias that...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 30, 2011
Courts - More previews of the upcoming SCOTUS term
"Supreme Court term could influence 2012 election," a long overview from Joan Biskupic of USA Today. "Major Religion Case Ushers...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 30, 2011
Courts - "Immigration law may face federal test: Justice Department considers challenge in Indiana, other states"
Heather Gillers and Tim Evans report the story in today's Indianapolis Star. Some quotes from the comprehensive account:Indiana's tough new...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Courts - "First Monday in October" is next week
The SCOTUS' term begins Monday, Oct. 3rd. "Full docket as Supreme Court term begins" is the heading to a comprehensive...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 29, 2011
Courts - More on: Excellent background article on legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act
Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 26th, Adam Liptak reports in today's NY Times in a long story headed "Supreme...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 29, 2011
Courts - "Justice for sale"
That is the subject of a special section of the October 2011 issue of The American Prospect....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 29, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Courts - Excellent background article on legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act [Updated]
Here it is, as the first article in a new series for the revamped SCOTUSblog, titled "SCOTUS for law students:...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 26, 2011
Courts - Several states debate judicial elections versus appointed bench
A long, very interesting survey story from Reuters....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 26, 2011
Courts - Still more on: "Post-Chandra Levy murder trial 12/1: The secret juror questionnaires"
Updating this Jan. 4, 2011 ILB entry, the Blog of Legal Times posted a Sept. 20th entry that begins:The District...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 26, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Courts - "Sherman Minton: The Hoosier they named the bridge for"
Over the years, the ILB has had several entries on Sherman Minton - Justice Minton was a Hoosier (New Albany)...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, September 25, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Courts - "Judges Compete for Law Clerks on a Lawless Terrain"
Reported by Catherine Rampell, a long story in the business section of today's NY Times. A few quotes:Federal judges are...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 23, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Courts - Still more on: Lobbyist linked to Abramoff quits Indianapolis firm
Updating this ILB entry from April 17, 2007, Mike Scarcella of The Blog of Legal Times is reporting today:Kevin Ring,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Courts - More on "Reliability Of Eyewitness Testimony Under Scrutiny"
Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 1, 2011, John Schwartz reports today the NY Times in a story headed "Changes...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 19, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Courts - "GPS used to track fired NY state worker raises privacy issue"
The Sept. 16th story in the Albany NY Times-Union is subheaded "Fired state training manager contends use of tracking device...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, September 18, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Courts - "Illinois court asked to review alleged bias by justice "
A March 22, 2008 ILB entry quoted a WSJ opinion piece headed "Justice for Sale." A sample:Lloyd Karmeier, the winner...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Courts - Bad news for public access to court documents
Politico's Josh Gerstein reports today:The basic fee federal courts charge for electronic copies of court records will be hiked by...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Courts - "We are seeing the [Wis. Supreme] court fall apart before our eyes," said Charles Geyh, a professor at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law
From Nathan Koppel of the WSJ, this long story today (which may be $$$). It begins:Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Courts - More on "Woman who recorded cops acquitted of felony eavesdropping charges"
Updating this ILB entry from August 25th, the Chicago Sun-Times today has this report of remarks made by Judge Poser...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Courts - "Federal Judicial Conference Urges Restraint In Sealing Civil Cases"
This entry in the Blog of Legal Times begins:The policy-making body of the federal judiciary approved a new standard today...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Courts - "Stenographer sues Pa. lawyer over transcript claim"
From the AP yesterday, a story that begins:WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — A court stenographer has sued a western Pennsylvania attorney...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Courts - "More bullying cases have parents turning to courts" [Updated]
That is the headline to this long story in USA TODAY, reported by Natalie DiBlasio. The WSJ Law Blog cites...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 12, 2011
Courts - "Court Case Asks if ‘Big Brother’ Is Spelled GPS"
Adam Liptak writes today in the NY Times about the upcoming SCOTUS case, U.S. v. Jones. (The ILB has a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 12, 2011
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Courts - A third federal Circuit Court weighs in on Health Care Act
A good, succinct summary of the three circuits that have ruled, here in the NY Times. [More] Lyle Denniston of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 08, 2011
Courts - "Padilla v. Kentucky and the Evolving Right to Deportation Counsel: Watershed or Work-in-Progress?"
Read about the law journal article by Professor Daniel Kanstroom here, at Sentencing Law blog....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 08, 2011
Courts - "Suspected illegal immigrants jailed in Cook County on minor charges will no longer be turned over to immigration authorities for possible deportation"
The Chicago Sun-Times has this story today, reported by Lisa Donovan. More from the story:In the past, undocumented residents could...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 08, 2011
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Courts - 2011 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference sessions online
Video of what appears to be much of the 2011 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference is now available online. The program...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Monday, September 05, 2011
Courts - "Cooking School Owners May Soon Eat Losses"
A very brief story this morning on NPR's Morning Edition reports:Many people dream of becoming chefs. Some have gone to...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 05, 2011
Courts - "Is it Unethical for Judges to be Facebook 'Friends' With Lawyers who Appear Before Them?"
Updating these two earlier ILB entries:Law - "Social media emerges as battleground for protected speech at work" From Ameet Sachdev's...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 05, 2011
Friday, September 02, 2011
Courts - "Chief Justice: Courts must use Facebook, Twitter to counter 'skewing of information"
This fascinating look at use of social media is from the Sidney, Australia Morning Herald. A few quotes:Victorian courts should...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 02, 2011
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Courts - More on "Woman who recorded cops acquitted of felony eavesdropping charges"
Recall this August 25th ILB entry, along with several linked stories, about videotaping police making arrests. Here now is...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 01, 2011
Courts - Suit on authority of State of Washington AG to make the State "a plaintiff in a multistate lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the health care reform legislation recently passed by Congress"
Thanks to How Appealing for spotting this decision and linking to the majority opinion and the two separately linked concurring...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 01, 2011
Courts - "Reliability Of Eyewitness Testimony Under Scrutiny"
This ILB entry from August 22nd quoted a NYT article by Adam Liptak headed "34 Years Later, Supreme Court Will...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 01, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Courts - "Revolt Weakens Chief Judge Edith H. Jones’ Control of Fifth Circuit Law: Bankruptcy"
This is interesting. See the long story by Bill Rochelle in Bloomberg Businessweek. It begins:Sixteen judges on the U.S. Court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Courts - Resources to Assist Self-Represented Litigants
This 59-page pdf handbook, dated June 2011, contains a great detail of information....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Courts - Two stories from California on public access to court proceedings
The first involves a California federal trial court that vidotaped a trial, but has been prevented from making the video...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 29, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Courts - "Millions of US court records bound for shredder"
Michael Tarm of the AP has a very long story today on the plans of U.S. officials "to destroy millions...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, August 26, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Courts - "No charges against Wisconsin justice accused in choking"
The Chicago Tribune has this AP report, which begins:Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser won't face criminal charges over allegations...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, August 25, 2011
Courts - "Woman who recorded cops acquitted of felony eavesdropping charges"
Recall these ILB entries from July 2 and July 10. Those stories involved videorecordings. Today's story from the Chicago Tribune,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, August 25, 2011
Courts - Florida Supreme Court rules Gov. Scott violated separation of powers
The Florida Supreme Court ruled August 16th in a 5-2 opinion that, per a long Miami Herald story reported by...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Courts - "Internet guilty of killing 1st Amendment"
Great story by Monica Bay of the Daily Business Review, on statements (many of which will be familiar to ILB...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Courts - "A Lawyer in Minnesota Challenges the Accuracy of D.W.I. Breath Tests"
Timothy Williams reported in the August 19th NY Times about a challenge to "the accuracy of drunken driven tests administered...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Courts - "Memory should be treated “as a form of trace evidence: a fragment collected at the scene of a crime, like a fingerprint or blood smear, whose integrity and reliability need to be monitored and assessed ..."
Adam Liptak's long Sidebar column this week in the NY Times is headed "34 Years Later, Supreme Court Will Revisit...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 22, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Courts - "Michigan Judges Agree With Need to Cut Court Budgets"
That is the headline to this entry in the WSJ Law Blog that begins:In this age of fiscal austerity, we’ve...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, August 18, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Courts - "Special prosecutor named to investigate the case of two Wisconsin Supreme Court justices fighting in chambers"
Reid J. Epstein has the story today in Politco. Some quotes:[Sauk County District Attorney Patricia Barrett, who is not seeking...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Courts - "Commentary on DOJ’s Brief in United States v. Jones: Applying the “four models of Fourth Amendment protection” to GPS tracking case."
On Friday, Prof. Orin Kerr posted this commentary on SCOTUSBlog. It begins:The Department of Justice has recently filed its brief...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, August 13, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Courts - More on: 7th Circuit Judge Terence Evans dies after battling a sudden, serious illness
Here is a long story/obituary today by Amy Rabideau Silvers in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Terence T. Evans. It...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, August 12, 2011
Courts - "E.P.A. Bans Sale of Tree-Killing Herbicide, Imprelis"
Updating three earlier ILB entries, today Jim Robbins of the NY Times reports in a story that begins:The Environmental Protection...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, August 12, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Courts - 7th Circuit Judge Terence Evans dies after battling a sudden, serious illness [Updated]
Here is a brief obituary from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. [More] See the Election Law Blog's tribute here. [Updated at 2:38...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, August 11, 2011
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Courts - "Thomas A. Cooley Law School is trying to discover the names of four anonymous bloggers"
The Detroit Free Press reporter, David Jesse, has the story, dated August 6th. A quote from the story:Cooley filed the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Courts - Federal Court Rules That Police Cannot Use Warrants to Obtain Cell Phone Location of Person Who is Subject of Arrest Warrant
Prof. Orin Kerr writes at length about the 60-page, August 3rd, D.Md. opinion by Magistrate Judge Susan K. Gauvey today...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Monday, August 08, 2011
Courts - Use of Rosie, a golden Retriever who helps young victims testifying in court, challenged
Don't miss the photo. NY Times reporter William Glaberson writes today in a story that begins:POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Rosie, the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 08, 2011
Courts - “A death warrant cannot trump the Constitution.”
That quote is from Ohio federal judge Gregory L. Frost, in this 60-page July 7, 2011 ruling staying the execution...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 08, 2011
Courts - "3rd Circuit Limits Use of Fake Names in Litigation"
Via AppellateDaily, this lengthy story from The Legal Intelligencer, reported by Shannon P. Duffy, that begins:Adopting a nine-factor balancing test...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 08, 2011
Courts - "New California law bans jurors' texting, tweeting"
California did it by statute, according to this AP story - some quotes:A new state law clarifies that jurors are...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 08, 2011
Sunday, August 07, 2011
Courts - Next SCOTUS nominee? "Democrats simply don’t have many federal appellate judges to choose from."
That is a quote from a column in today's NY Times magazine, written by Emily Bazelon, a senior editor at...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, August 07, 2011
Friday, August 05, 2011
Courts - The five top SCOTUS decisions from the past term
From Findlaw.com, an article headed "The Top 5: The Year's Top 2010 Supreme Court Cases," by Robyn Hagan Cain....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, August 05, 2011
Courts - "When does a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to an attorney begin?"
Apparently you aren't going to find out any time soon from the Illinois Supreme Court, according to this story this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, August 05, 2011
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Courts: "The Mechanics of Federal Appeals: Uniformity and Case Management in the Circuit Courts"
Marin K. Levy, Lecturing Fellow at Duke University - School of Law has posted this paper, which is forthcoming in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Courts - "State Supreme Court Law Clerk Salary Chart"
Check it out here, at Law Clerk Addict....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Courts - "High court asked to hear student online-speech case"
David L. Hudson Jr. writes at the First Amendment Center in an entry that begins:A former Connecticut high school student...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Monday, August 01, 2011
Courts - "Court Blocks Kansas Law Defunding Planned Parenthood"
Nathan Koppel of the WSJ Law Blog is reporting:Today, Kansas federal judge J. Thomas Marten blocked the law, agreeing with...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 01, 2011
Courts - Jerry Brown nominates Goodwin Liu to the California Supreme Court
So reports Dan Morain in the Sacramento Bee. Lui's nomination to the 9th Circuit by President Obama was blocked in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 01, 2011
Courts - Still more on: Ruling now issued in "Cancer Patients Challenge the Patenting of a Gene" [Updated]
Updating this July 30th ILB entry, the July 29 Federal Circuit ruling in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 01, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Courts - More on: Ruling now issued in "Cancer Patients Challenge the Patenting of a Gene"
Updating this brief ILB entry from Friday, here is a longer report from today's NYTimes, by Andrew Pollack. Here is...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, July 30, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Courts - "All too often courts permit parties to file entire briefs under seal when there is only a kernel of confidential information."
That is a quote from this article -- "Not So Confidential: A Call for Restraint in Sealing Court Records" by...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, July 29, 2011
Courts - Ruling now issued in "Cancer Patients Challenge the Patenting of a Gene"
Updating this long list of ILB entries, the WSJ Law Blog has now posted "Appellate Court Says Breast-Cancer Genes Can...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, July 29, 2011
Courts - "Justices Kagan and Sotomayor to Stay in the Cert Pool"
From The National Law Journal:The Supreme Court's newest justices, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, say they have decided to remain...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Courts - More on: 4th Circuit rules on Discipline of Student Over Internet Bullying
Updating this ILB entry from earlier today, Ben Skirvin reports/comments this afternoon for StateImpact Indiana (a collaboration of WFIU, Indiana...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, July 28, 2011
Courts - 4th Circuit rules on Discipline of Student Over Internet Bullying
Mark Walsh has the story at The School Law Blog. A quote:The decision is one of several in recent months...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, July 28, 2011
Courts - Still more on "Pennsylvania Homeowner and Indiana Golf Course Company File Class Action Lawsuit Alleging DuPont's New Herbicide Imprelis is Causing the Death of Trees Nationwide"
"DuPont admits new herbicide has damaged spruce, pine trees," is the headline to this long story this morning from DelawareOnline....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Courts - "Court says states may set stricter ballast rules" than the federal rules
A July 25th story by Dan Egan in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that begins:A push by the shipping industry to roll...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Courts - "Why Lawyers and Judges Should Watch Executions"
New today in The Atlantic, this article by Andrew Cohen. (For background start with this ILB entry from July 24th.)...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Courts - “You can’t do by signing statement what you can’t do by veto"
That is one of the issues in a case that will be before the SCOTUS this fall, a case which,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Courts - Is the collection of DNA samples from people arrested -- but not yet convicted of crimes -- constitutional? [Updated]
How Appealing has just posted a link to this story by Rich Lord of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, headed "U.S. Appeals...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, July 25, 2011
Courts - "Iowa Considers Secrecy Proposal for Lawyer Misconduct"
Really? Nathan Koppel has this story on the WSJ Law Blog....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, July 25, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Courts - More on "Why shouldn't Georgia lethal injection — and all executions — be recorded on video?"
Updating this ILB entry from July 21, 2011, Erica Goode of the NY Times had a long report this weekend...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, July 24, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Courts - "Why shouldn't Georgia lethal injection — and all executions — be recorded on video?"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, Prof. Doug Berman of the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog, poses that question today in this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Courts - "Top Georgia court allows rare videotape of execution, denies stay for death row inmate"
From the Washington Post this evening, this AP story -- some quotes:JACKSON, Ga. — Georgia’s top court on Wednesday narrowly...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Courts - "Software Designer Reports Error in Anthony Trial"
This story from the NY Times, reported by Lizette Alvarez, looks like it also could be titled "Prosecutors allegedly behaving...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Courts - More on "Pennsylvania Homeowner and Indiana Golf Course Company File Class Action Lawsuit Alleging DuPont's New Herbicide Imprelis is Causing the Death of Trees Nationwide"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, here is the 45-page complaint filed in Delaware federal district court on July 18, 2011....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Courts - "Pennsylvania Homeowner and Indiana Golf Course Company File Class Action Lawsuit Alleging DuPont's New Herbicide Imprelis is Causing the Death of Trees Nationwide"
According to the press release, suit was filed in Delaware federal court. From the release:Jonathan Selbin of the national plaintiffs'...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, July 18, 2011
Courts - "Ohio voters to decide issue of judges’ age"
By Indiana statute, appellate court judges must retire at age 75. Until this year's legislative session, many trial court judges...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, July 18, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Courts - "Feds, states in dispute over court interpreters;" and more from Indiana
Dave Collins of the AP has this very long story today. Here are some quotes:HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Annie Ling...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, July 17, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Courts - "Accused leaker asks feds to fact check NYT reporter's book"
Not something the ILB would normally cover, but this column item from Politico points out what looks to be a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Courts - More on: ChicagoTribune wins suit over U of Illinois clout list
Remember the award-winning Chicago Tribune investigative series, "Clout goes to college," about admissions practices at the University of Illinois. This...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, July 14, 2011
Courts - "Michigan Supreme Court rules homelessness not a defense for sex offender failing to register"
See the Sentencing Law Blog entry here....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, July 14, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Courts - Wisconsin justices may only remove themselves from a case, not each other
Or, as this story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, by Patrick Marley, begins:Madison - State Supreme Court justices can't kick...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Courts - Following up on: Can DOJ force you to give up computer password?
Following up on the ILB entry from July 11th, the Law Librarian Blog today looks at that issue, plus this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Courts - "Ohio Supreme Court finds new Ohio SORNA-compliant sex offender requirements punitive"
Sentencing Law & Policy has the decision here. The intro:In a ruling with potential national implications even though based only...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Courts - "Polygamist, Under Scrutiny in Utah, Plans Suit to Challenge Law"
John Schwartz reports today in the NY Times in an interesting story that begins:Kody Brown is a proud polygamist, and...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Courts - Can DOJ force you to give up computer password?
See this lengthy CNET story by Declan McCullagh that begins:The Colorado prosecution of a woman accused of a mortgage scam...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, July 11, 2011
Friday, July 08, 2011
Courts - More on: India's Supreme Court locates treasures worth $22 billion in the sealed vaults of a 16th century Hindu temple
Updating this ILB entry from July 5th, a long story reported by Vikas Bajaj in today's NYTimes is headed: "India’s...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, July 08, 2011
Courts - "Trial records at mercy of court reporters' performance"
The ILB has been compiling stories about lost or unfinished court transcripts (or in one case, "taken") for years. For...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, July 08, 2011
Courts - "Amid Stacks of Paper, ‘E-Court’ Is Finally in Session" in Manhattan
Long, interesting story in today's NY Times, from William Glaberson. Some quotes:For the past year, New York State has for...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, July 08, 2011
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Courts - "The Supreme Court closes the door to justice"
From the July 6th LA Times, an opinion piece on the SCOTUS by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Irvine...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, July 07, 2011
Courts - "Should the Government Need a Search Warrant to Track Your Car with GPS?"
From Time, an article by Adam Cohen, dated July 5, 2011, that begins:The Supreme Court ended its term Monday with...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, July 07, 2011
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Courts - More on "Dictionary Citations by SCOTUS Justices Rise Sharply"
Updating this ILB entry from June 15th, which quoted an Adam Liptak NY Times column about Supreme Court justices citing...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Courts - More on "Kentucky judges can grant out-of-state minors permission for abortions, appeals court rules"
This long Jan. 16, 2011 ILB entry quoted a story from Andrew Wolfson in that day's Louisville Courier Journal. (The...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Courts - India's Supreme Court locates treasures worth $22 billion in the sealed vaults of a 16th century Hindu temple
Talk about proactive! From the WSJ's India Realtime blog, some quotes from Margherita Stancati:But if this news evoked images of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Courts - "Pretrial Detention, Bail and Due Process"
Here, at LLRX, is a useful guide to "recent publications and other notable resources concerning the relationship between the administration...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Courts - "The D.A. Stole His Life, Justices Took His Money"
In the print version of today's Sunday NY Times, an article taking up two columns and running down the entire...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, July 03, 2011
Courts - More on "Ky. court will hear appeal by Amish: Safety triangles at issue in case "
Updating this ILB entry from January 28, 2009, Peter Smith of the Louisville Courier Journal has this report today, headlined...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, July 03, 2011
Courts - "A Significant SCOTUS Term, With Bigger Cases Ahead"
So reads the headline to this analysis by Adam Liptak of the NY Times, accompanied by this cool graphic of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, July 03, 2011
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Sports Law - NBA champ Dallas Mavs poorly managed?
Seems like Ross Perot, who owns 5% of the Dallas Mavericks, sued Mark Cuban last year (May 11, 2010) claiming...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, July 02, 2011
Friday, July 01, 2011
Courts - "Business, Free Speech Winners In High Court Term"
NPR's Nina Totenberg has a good wrap-up today of this just-ended SCOTUS term. It begins:The U.S. Supreme Court term that...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, July 01, 2011
Courts - "U.S. Sentencing Commission approves retroactive crack guidelines"
Mike Scarcella of The National Law Journal reports in a story that begins:Tens of thousands of federal prisoners could be...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, July 01, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Courts - "Planned Parenthood juggles multiple lawsuits"
Politico reporter Sarah Kliff has this long report this morning....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Courts - "Where police needed probable cause before seizing your day planner, they can now piece together your whereabouts from your purchases, cellphone data and car’s GPS"
That is a quote from a brief article by Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Courts - Today SCOTUS grants cert in Illinois Supreme Court confrontation clause case; Idaho CWA case
See the SCOTUSblog case page on Williams v. Illinois. Issue:Issue: Whether the Court should grant certiorari to review the Illinois...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Courts - "High Court OKs Sales Of Violent Video Games To Kids"
Nina Totenberg's NPR Morning Edition story on the SCOTUS decision yesterday in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass'n. Her long story...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Courts - More on "Tensions Run High, Very High, at Wisconsin Supreme Court"
Updating this entry from earlier today, Jennifer Epstein of Politico reports:Infighting on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court must be resolved for the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 27, 2011
Courts - "Tensions Run High, Very High, at Wisconsin Supreme Court"
Nathan Koppel of the WSJ Law Blog, has this entry this morning. It begins:The Wisconsin Supreme Court is arguably the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 27, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS to hand down final four opinions of term today
Watching SCOTUSblog again ... Some quotes, which are updated continually:Amy: We are expecting a decision in the violent video games,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Courts - "Drug Industry Wins In 2 Supreme Court Rulings"
NPR reporter Nina Totenberg had this story on last Thursday's two SCOTUS rulings on the drug industry. The intro:The U.S....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, June 26, 2011
Courts - End of term discussion with Paul Clement, Walter Dellinger and Dahlia Lithwick
Access the discussion on Slate; so far there are five parts. Here is the most recent. Also interesting is this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, June 26, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS newest confrontation clause opinion
"Supreme Court says defendants may confront lab analysts who prepare reports" is the headline of Robert Barnes story June 23rd...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, June 26, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Courts - "High court sides with defendant in Louisville crack cocaine case"
Yesterday's SCOTUS opinion in Freeman v. U.S. is the subject of this long story today in the Louisville Courier Journal,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, June 24, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS issuing more opinions today
Thanks again to SCOTUSblog for providing the info below:Amy: Just to recap: We are expecting opinions today (no orders). Monday...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, June 23, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Courts - "Alito, Sotomayor give voice to court split"
Robert Barnes had an interesting report in the June 19, 2011 Washington Post, that began:The Supreme Court’s two former prosecutors...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Courts - More on yesterday's SCOTUS opinions
Law.com has links this morning to articles about these major SCOTUS decisions from yesterday:Supreme Court Hands Wal-Mart Big Win in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Courts - "Supreme Court limits Wal-Mart sex bias case "
Mark Sherman of the AP now has posted this story in the Wal-Mart decision today. [More] Here is the AP...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 20, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS opinions today
Thanks to SCOTUSblog:American Electric v. Conn. case page is here. Opinion: "The Court holds that the Clean Air Act and...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 20, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Law - "Lots of good reasoning on crime and punishment at Reason"
That is the heading to this entry at Sentencing Law Blog, about the July issue of Reason magazine....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, June 19, 2011
Courts - More on "Schools May Punish Students for Off-Campus, Online Speech"
Updating this ILB entry from June 16th, here is a good, link-rich June 13th story from the Student Press Law...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, June 19, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Courts - "New Jersey Supreme Court Will Hear Fourth Amendment Case Involving Supposed 'Administrative Search' of a Family’s Back Yard"
This entry in The Volokh Conspiracy, by Prof. Volokh, really is interesting and the ILB will try to follow any...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, June 18, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Courts - "Schools May Punish Students for Off-Campus, Online Speech"
This story from Wired, by David Kravets, is the first I've heard of the 3rd Circuit's action re online speech....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, June 16, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS decides today that age must be weighed in interrogations
Here is the coverage by Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY. It begins:WASHINGTON — By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court on...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, June 16, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Courts - "Wisconsin Supreme Court reinstates collective bargaining law"
The battle over the new Wisconsin collective bargaining ban seems finally at an end -- ILB readers may recall...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Courts - "Dictionary Citations by SCOTUS Justices Rise Sharply"
Adam Liptak has a great column yesterday in the NY Times about Supreme Court justices citing dictionary entries as authority....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Courts - "CA Court Says Bar Exam Information Not Protected"
Kate Moser reports in The Recorder in a story that begins:SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeal court breathed new life...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Courts - "NY Appeals Court Clarifies MERS Role in Foreclosures"
Here is the intro to an article today by Brendan Pierson of the New York Law Journal:The ubiquitous Mortgage Electronic...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Courts - Writing hints from the Justices of the SCOTUS
NPR's Nina Totenberg had a great, over 5-minute story this morning, based on "a series of interviews conducted with the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 13, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS issuing opinions this morning [[Updated]
From SCOTUSblog this morning, while awaiting this morning's opinions:Tom: 23 cases are left to be decided. 58 have been decided...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 13, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Courts - "Arkansas Supreme Court justice says clothing ad a surprise, asks designer to stop using her image"
A long June 11th story from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, reported by Debra Hale-Shelton, and reprinted in the Columbus IN Republic,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, June 12, 2011
Courts - Lawyer advertising tactics on internet upheld
Bruce Vielmetti reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on June 8th about a case where one law firm purchased another's...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, June 12, 2011
Courts - "Alabama's top court overturns law granting grandparents limited visitation rights"
Eric Velasco of the Birmingham News reported June 10th:MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- An Alabama law granting grandparents limited visitation rights was...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, June 12, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Courts - More on the growing problem of thefts of funds out of bank accounts by online hackers
This Jan. 1, 2010 ILB entry began:The ILB has had a number of earlier entries on the growing problem of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, June 11, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Courts - D.C. divorce lawyer sued by former, Nobel prize-winning, client
"D.C. Divorce Lawyer, Nobel Laureate Feud " is the headline to this story by Zoe Tillman of The National Law...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, June 10, 2011
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Ind. Decisions - More on today's SCOTUS ruling in Sykes [Updated]
Updating this ILB entry from earlier today, here are some quotes from this lengthy story by Bill Mears of CNN:Washington...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, June 09, 2011
Courts - Supreme Court issues several interesting opinions today
One is the Microsoft v. i4i patent case. Here is the opinion. And here is the SCOTUSblog case page, for...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, June 09, 2011
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Courts - "Judge Lynch, who always wears dresses to work, said she won't take the glass stairs at the new Franklin County Common Pleas Courthouse"
Thanks to How Appealing, here is a don't miss story, complete with photos, from today's Columbus Ohio Dispatch, headed "New...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Sunday, June 05, 2011
Courts - Some of the cases awaiting decision by the SCOTUS
Time is drawing near for the SCOTUS summer vacation. What big cases are still outstanding? Michael Kirkland at UPI has...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, June 05, 2011
Courts - More on "The Confidential Nature of Lawsuits"
Updating this ILB entry from May 31, 2011, here is a 2010 law journal article titled "Pseudonymous Litigation," authored by...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, June 05, 2011
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Courts - How to become a federal judge
From The Blog at Legal Times this entry today that begins:Frustrated by the lack of centralized information on the process...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Courts - Illinois Supreme Court moves to public domain citation system
The Madison Record reports in a long story dated May 31, 2011 that begins:In another bow to the digital age,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Courts - More on "Ky. S.Ct: fathers of children conceived during affairs have parental rights"
Recall this ILB entry from last week, I had hoped to give the Indiana position, and thanks to an email...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Courts - "Warrantless cell phone searches spread to more states"
Headline from a story today by Amy Gahran in a special to CNN-Tech. The story begins:Think about all the data...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Courts - "Madoff Victim Seeks Divorce Do-Over"
Don't miss this front-page story today in the NY Times, reported by business writer Peter Lattman. It begins:After 33 years...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Courts - "The Confidential Nature of Lawsuits"
Law.com has posted this article by attorneys Joel Cohen and Katherine A. Helm. A sample:The need for pseudonyms in litigation...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Courts - "In blow to business groups, SCOTUS upholds Arizona law on hiring foreign workers "
Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this lengthy story on yesterday's ruling in Chamber of Commerce of United...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, May 27, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Courts - "Ky. S.Ct: fathers of children conceived during affairs have parental rights"
Andrew Wolfson of the Louisville Courier Journal posted this lengthy story late yesterday. Some quotes:Men who father a child during...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, May 26, 2011
Courts - "High court sustains Ariz. employer sanctions law "
Here is the AP's first take on the SCOTUS opinion today in Chamber of Commerce of United States v. Whiting....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, May 26, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Courts - Still more on: SCOTUS decides major prison case today
Updating this May 23rd ILB entry on the SCOTUS decision in Brown v. Plata, Monique Garcia reported yesterday in the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Courts - "Records suffice for breath evidence in DUI, court says"
Martin Finucane reported today in the Boston Globe in a story that begins:The state’s highest court ruled yesterday that prosecutors...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Courts - Still more on seizing of domain names
Updating this ILB entry from May 9th, Wired's David Kravets has a new story headed "Feds Seize 8 More Domains...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Courts - More on: SCOTUS decides major prison case today
Updating this ILB entry from this morning on the SCOTUS decision today in Brown v. Plata, the WSJ Law Blog...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, May 23, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS decides major prison case today
And, as noted by Amy How of SCOTUSblog: "Justice Kennedy has apparently attached photos to his opinion in Brown v....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Courts - "Losing Kentucky counties in Ten Commandments cases face growing legal bills to ACLU"
From the Lexington Kentucky Herald-Leader, a long story by Bill Estep reported on May 19th:SOMERSET — The legal bill continues...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, May 22, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Courts - More on: SCOTUS decides 4th amendment "exigent" circumstances case today
Updating this ILB entry on the SCOTUS decision Monday in the case of Kentucky v. King, here are two interesting...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Courts - University general counsels as appellate judges
Lest there be any question that a university general counsel is qualified to sit on an appellate court, see this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Courts - "Secret Cash Dominates in State Court Races"
Tim Jones of Bloomberg Businessweek has this story. A quote:In the 39 states that elect judges, the funding of campaigns...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS decides 4th amendment "exigent" circumstances case today
From SCOTUSblog today:In Kentucky v. King (opinion here), the Court reversed the decision of the Kentucky Supreme Court. Justice Alito...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, May 16, 2011
Courts - "Top Pennsylvania jurist says courts underfunded"
Thanks to How Appealing for the link to this lengthy story today in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, reported by Brad Bumsted...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, May 16, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Courts - "U.S. courts say casinos have no 'duty of care' responsibility to halt compulsive gamblers from playing"
This lengthy article today by John Mangels of the Cleveland Plain Dealer references, among others, two Indiana decisions, Williams v....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, May 15, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Courts - "When a Home Birth Ends in Tragedy, Can the Midwife Go to Jail?"
That is the title to a story posted yesterday on Slate. reported by Libby Copeland. The ILB has posted several...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Courts - "Courts nationwide hold hearings with video"
Colleen Long reports in this long AP article in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle that begins:George Villanueva, charged with first-degree...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Monday, May 09, 2011
Courts - More on seizing of domain names
Earlier ILB entries reported the still-pending case of the Kentucky governor seizing 141 Internet domain names of online gambling sites,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, May 09, 2011
Courts - SCOTUSblog now has special page devoted to health care law challenges
Access it here. The intro:Welcome to SCOTUSblog's Health Care page, where you can find our coverage (principally by our reporter...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, May 09, 2011
Friday, May 06, 2011
Courts - "Applying the Rules of Evidence Related to Authentication to Online Sources"
UCLA law prof. Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspirary has an interesting entry this morning that begins:Evidence law has special...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, May 06, 2011
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Courts - Does it seem like it is always the nuns?
"Nuns' ballots rejected in state Supreme Court recount" is the headline to a May 4th story in the Milwaukee Journal...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, May 05, 2011
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Courts - "What may be expected of lawyers in terms of rudimentary competence has lately been high on the SCOTUS' agenda"
That is the topic of Adam Liptak's "Sidebar" column today in the NY Times....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS justices planning to stay put
Mark Sherman of the AP reports that no justices are planning to retire this year. But see this in the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Courts - "Court deals potentially fatal blow to class action arbitrations "
Updating yesterday's entry, here is a story today by Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal, headed "Court deals potentially...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 28, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Courts - "After AT&T Ruling, Should We Say Goodbye to Consumer Class Actions?"
That is the headline to this WSJ Law Blog post by Ashby Jones, reacting to the SCOTUS decision today in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Courts - "SCOTUS Examines State, Local Ethics Laws"
Listen to Nina Totenberg's NPR story about today's oral argument. It begins:The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Courts - More on "SCOTUS Weighs Whether To Limit Data Mining"
Updating this ILB entry from first thing this morning, the oral argument took place this morning. How did it go?...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Courts - "A record 17 times last year, Wisconsin's Court of Appeals hit lawyers with $150 "summary sanctions" when judges thought briefs were missing some supporting documentation"
So begins another Wisconsin story, this one by Bruce Vielmetti of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A few more quotes:The state...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Courts - "SCOTUS Weighs Whether To Limit Data Mining" [Updated]
Fascinating, nearly 5-minute story this morning by Nina Totenberg of NPR, that begins:At the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, the justices...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Courts - Turmoil involving Supreme Court makeup in Iowa and Wisconsin continues
Stories this weekend: From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, this story by Larry Sandler and Jason Stein headlined "Count on some chaos...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, April 24, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Courts - "Sealed Records Exposed In Major Court Gaffe: Federal prosecutors scramble to cloak details of ongoing probes"
The Smoking Gun has the story yesterday. The amazing report begins:APRIL 22--In a shocking failure to protect sensitive details about...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, April 23, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Courts - Continuing on with: "Kentucky Supreme Court to hear online gambling case"
Remember this ILB entry from March 19, 2010? The Governor of Kentucky had seized 141 Internet domain names of online...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 21, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Courts - More on: Indiana Attorney General and Harvard's Laurence Tribe in agreement
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, the New York Times today, in an editorial, presents the opposing view. It begins:The case about...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Ind. Courts - More on: Mandatory retirement age for trial court judges? And more on noncode drafting issues
Updating this long ILB entry from Feb. 9, 2011, SB 463, which repeals or otherwise removes all provisions that establish...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 18, 2011
Courts - "Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and other politicians often weigh in on the selection of Cook County associate judges — a process supposed to be free of political influence"
Jeff Coen and Todd Lighty has this lengthy report in the April 15th Chicago Tribune. It begins:The letters from Illinois...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 18, 2011
Courts - Miami Herald editorial: "Legislature’s attempt to overhaul judicial system is based on spite"
Interesting opinion piece in Sunday's Miami Herald....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 18, 2011
Courts - Indiana Attorney General and Harvard's Laurence Tribe in agreement
Both have written opinion pieces on the upcoming argument before the SCOTUS in the case of American Electric Power Co....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 18, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS "should hold that the compelling interest in ensuring impartial judges is sufficient to permit restrictions on campaign spending that would be unconstitutional for nonjudicial elections"
So argue Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the law school at the University of California, Irvine, and James J. Sample,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 18, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Courts - "Is 'plagiarism' in a judicial decision wrong?"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, Prof. Eugene Volokh, in an interesting entry yesterday, first points to this entry by Bill Poser,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, April 16, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Courts - Judicial plagiarism in British Columbia results in $5-million judgment thrown out
How Appealing has the story, plus a link to the ruling of the BC Court of Appeal here. The Vancouver...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Courts - "Did Blogging Kill the First Amendment?"
Fascinating post from Above the Law by Christopher Danzig. It begins:Our buddy, the Honorable Alex Kozinski, is on a roll....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 14, 2011
Courts - Might some counsel lose all sense of perspective at times, while others don't?
It would seem so, as epitomized via this 3-page Order on Motion to Continue filed April 12, 2011 by...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 14, 2011
Courts - "Sonia Sotomayor may play on congressional softball team this year"
JoanBiskupic just tweeted:At a House Approps hearing on #SCOTUS budget , Rep. Emerson reveals [Justice] Sonia Sotomayor may play on...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 14, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Courts - "Amendment would raise age limit for Ohio judges to 75"
Jim Siegel reports today in the Columbus Dispatch:Examining how old is too old to serve on the bench in Ohio,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Courts - "Wisconsin previews 2012 chaos"
Long and interesting story today in Politico on the Wisconsin judicial election. [More] "Wisconsin Awaits Outcome of Supreme Court Vote"...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Courts - "US District Court Says Kentucky Bar Can Restrict Attorney Speech"
Stephanie Francis Ward has this concerning report in the ABA Journal blog. Be sure to read the linked Lexington Herald-Leader...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Courts - "Appeals Court Upholds Facebook Settlement" [Updated] With Twins
When $70 million isn't enough ... Reuters is reporting from the 9th Circuit:SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — A federal appeals court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 11, 2011
Courts - 9th Circuit upholds Justice challenge on Ariz. immigration law [Updated with opinion]
Here is early WaPo story. [Updated] Longer Reuters story now. [Updated again] Here is the opinion....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 11, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Courts - "Illinois high court allows nonresidents to transport guns"
Here is the April 7, 2011 opinion of the Illinois Supreme Court in the cases of People v. Holmes. From...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, April 10, 2011
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Courts - Wisconsin Supreme Court election caught up in politics
Larry Sandler and Patrick Marley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report this morning kin a lengthy and interesting story, under...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Courts - "Two executions blocked over lawyers’ role"
"In each case, the claim is that the defense lawyer failed to provide an effective professional performance in a post-conviction...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Courts - Still more on "Court leaves in place Ariz. school tax break "
Updating yesterday's entry, this WSJ Law Blog entry today by Ashby Jones is headed "In Tax-Credit Case, High Court Sidesteps...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Monday, April 04, 2011
Courts - More on "Court leaves in place Ariz. school tax break "
Updating this ILB entry from this morning, there are several articles available already providing good coverage of the SCOTUS decision...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 04, 2011
Courts - "Court leaves in place Ariz. school tax break "
That is the headline to this very brief, first to report, story by AP on the SCOTUS ruling today in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 04, 2011
Courts - Campaign Finance; Patenting Genes
Not related, except that they are each the subject of an interesting entry this morning in the WSJ Law Blog:The...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 04, 2011
Courts - More on "Welcome to Wal-Mart: The Biggest Case of the Term"
Updating this ILB entry from March 27th, the NY Times Supreme Court writer, Adam Liptak's Sunday column begins:Can a class-action...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 04, 2011
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Courts - "Legal scholars examine the U.S. high court's 'Supreme Mistakes'"
The subhead to this LA Times story from Carol J. Williams: "A high-powered gathering of legal scholars at Pepperdine's law...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, April 03, 2011
Saturday, April 02, 2011
Courts - "Cruel but Not Unusual: Clarence Thomas writes one of the meanest Supreme Court decisions ever"
The SCOTUS decision this week in Connick v. Thompson, which the ILB noted in this March 30th entry, has been...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, April 02, 2011
Friday, April 01, 2011
Courts - Missouri trial court throws out law based on one-subject requirement
Fascinating story today in the St.Louis Post Dispatch, reported by Virginia Young. Some quotes from the long story:Missouri's ethics law,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, April 01, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Courts - New Jersey: "Judge Orders Newspaper to ID Commenter re Manslaughter Case Against Former ‘Melrose Place’ Actress"
ABA Journal blog has this March 30th entry that begins:A judge in New Jersey yesterday ordered the Newark Star-Ledger to...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Courts - "A Defining 48 Hours at the Supreme Court"
From Joan Biskupic's Supreme Court Blog today, this entry that begins:Sitting in the courtroom the last two days, I was...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Courts - "Exonerated inmate won't get $14M "
A USA TODAY story by Brad Heath reeports:WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court made it more difficult to sue local...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Courts - "Justice Antonin Scalia ticketed for GW Parkway fender-bender"
The Washington Post's "Reliable Sources" column has the story. From the story:The Supreme Court justice was ticketed early Tuesday for...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Courts - CJ of SCOTUS conducts independent research
See this ABA Journal blog entry this morning, headed "Chief Justice Checks Out a Website for Constitutional Ammunition in Campaign...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Courts - "Federal Courts Worry Your Smartphone Might Be a Bomb"
Interesting, balanced article by David Kravets of Wired. It begins:Smartphones could offer journalists and the public an easy and cost-effective...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Courts - "Welcome to Wal-Mart: The Biggest Case of the Term"
That is the headline to this story in The Atlantic, written by Andrew Cohen. The first paragraph:On Tuesday morning, the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, March 27, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Courts - "Minnesota Supreme Court Issues Test Period for Cameras in the Courtroom"
Andrew Gauthier's story in MediaBistro begins:The Minnesota Supreme Court has instituted a two-year test period to examine the use of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Courts - Do indigent persons have a constitutional right to counsel if they face jail for failing to pay child support?
That issue was before the SCOTUS yesterday in the case of Turner v. Rogers. Marcia Coyle of the National Law...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 24, 2011
Courts - "New Iowa justices will campaign when facing retention vote"
From the long story in the DesMoines Register by Jans Manuel Krogstad, who reports:Iowa's three new Supreme Court justices said...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 24, 2011
Courts - "SCOTUS Justices debate rights of juveniles"
The oral argument yesterday before the SCOTUS in the case of J.D.B. v. North Carolina is the subject of a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Courts - "State courts' embattled administrator to retire"
From the San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko reports today:State court administrator William Vickrey, who has managed California's judicial system during...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Courts - More on "Want to Serve on a Jury? Be Careful What You Post"
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 22, 2011 that cited a WSJ story, the Indianapolis Star today has a lengthy...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Courts - "Supreme Court Decides -- Narrowly -- Against Hearing Enviro Search Case"
The NY Times, March 21st, had a report by Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire about an important environmental issue. From the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Courts - "Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Gildea warns against more budget cuts"
T.W. Budig reports in the Princeton MN Union-Eagle, in a long story that begins:Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, March 18, 2011
Environment - 5th Circuit rules EPA cannot require livestock operations to obtain Clean Water Act permits unless they are discharging manure into a waterway of the U.S.
The decision is Natl Pork Producers, et al v. EPA. Access the 29-page, March 15, 2011 opinion here. Here...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, March 18, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Courts - "Welcome to Debtors' Prison, 2011 Edition " [Updated]
Today's WSJ has this long story by Jessica Silver-Greenberg. Here is a quote:More than a third of all U.S. states...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Courts - "Jury: Blogger Johnny Northside must pay $60,000 to fired community leader"
Abby Simons of the Minneapolis-St.Paul Star-Tribune reported March 12, 2011 in a long story that began:Though blogger John (Johnny Northside)...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Courts - "Supreme Night Court: Judges Relax By Trying the Fictitious and the Dead"
Jess Bravin of the WSJournal has an interesting story today about the mock trials many of the justices participate in....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, March 14, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Courts - "Judges Resist Plan to Unify Court system"
Here is the interesting story in the March 12, 2011 NY Times. Some quotes:The troubles plaguing the project, which is...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, March 13, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Courts - "Blogger Jailed; Allegedly Threatened Dearborn Ohio Judge"
Eagle Country News 93.3 FM, covering SE Ind., N. Ky. add SW Ohio, reports today that a Norwood, Ohio man...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, March 11, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Courts - National efforts to change merit selection systems continue
How Appealing this morning points to two interesting judicial merrit retention stories. From the Orlando Sentinel, a story by Aaron...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 10, 2011
Courts - ChicagoTribune wins suit over U of Illinois clout list
For background start with this ILB entry from July 12, 2009. Today Antonio Olivo of the Chicago Tribune reports in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 10, 2011
Courts - Two interesting articles on Justice Scalia [Updated]
First, Linda Greenhouse has an opinion column in the March 9, 2011 NYT, headed "Justice Scalia Objects." Her thesis:Antonin Scalia,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Courts - Crime law woes and the upshot in New York's Nassau County
The ILB has had a number of entries based on IndyStar reporting, headed "Errors found in Indiana state lab toxicology...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Courts - "Ray Charles could see that signature was doctored"
According to this AP story, Pennsylvania state Sen. Jane Orie, R-Allegheny, 49 "and her sister, Janine Orie, 56, are charged...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 03, 2011
Courts - Standard of review decides cases
Interesting article by Mark Hermann in Above the Law....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 03, 2011
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS decides for protesters in funeral protest case
Per SCOTUSblog: "09-751 Snyder v. Phelps. Chief Justice Roberts wrote for the Court. The decision rules that the First Amendment...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Courts - "'Dynamic' duo of Kagan, Sotomayor add vigor to court"
So reports Joan Biskupic in USA TODAY in an interesting story that begins:WASHINGTON — After each Supreme Court appointment in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS continues parsing confrontation clause
SCOTUSblog today has a good roundup of articles on yesterday's SCOTUS decision in Michigan v. Bryant (ILB entry here). In...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS rules today on reach of confrontation clause [Updated]
The opinion is Michigan v. Bryant. Sentencing Law blog has the first entry I've seen on today's opinion. [More] A...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, February 28, 2011
Courts - Likely just as true here as in Canada
How Appealing points to an article in the Vancouver Sun headed "Legal system doesn't work for ordinary people, top judge...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, February 28, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Courts - On your way to prison? Hire a prison consultant
"Ex-cons offer prison primers for soon-to-be incarcerated execs" is the headline to this long story by Lisa Black of the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, February 26, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Courts - Iowa governor names three new justices to fill slots of three who failed retention election
Here is a story from the Feb. 23rd DesMoines Register. Here is a more detailed story from today. Today the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, February 24, 2011
Courts - "If You’re Not Using Facebook, You’re A Bad Lawyer"
So writes Kashmir Hill in the blog, Above the Law. More:If you’re not booting up your laptop or iPad during...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, February 24, 2011
Courts - SCOTUS "allows state suits in seat belt cases"
Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal reports, in a long story dated Feb. 23rd:The Supreme Court on Wednesday opened...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Courts - "Obama DOJ Announces It Will Not Defend DOMA"
The Wonk Room entry begins:Moments ago, in a sharp reversal of policy, the Obama administration announced that it believes that...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Courts - DC Circuit on citing unpublished orders
Here is an interesting entry in How Appealing referencing a decision on the value of citing unpublished orders in the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Courts - "Want to Serve on a Jury? Be Careful What You Post"
The WSJ Law Blog today discusses and points to a WSJ story today headlined "Searching for Details Online, Lawyers Facebook...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Courts - "2nd Judge Insured By State Farm Steps Aside in $350M Case"
Interesting item from Martha Nell of the ABJ Journal Blog....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, February 18, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Courts - Chicago Court clerk lays off 170 county workers
Lisa Donovan, Cook County reporter for the Sun-Times, reports today:Cook County Circuit Clerk Court Dorothy Brown’s office handed pink slips...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Courts - "W.Va. court says warrants can cover cell phones"
In a case of first impression in West Virginia, the W.Va. Supreme Court has ruled:"When searching a vehicle pursuant to...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, February 14, 2011
Courts - "New York Takes Step on Money in Judicial Elections"
In the NY Times today, William Glaberson has a long report that begins:New York’s top court officials will bar the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, February 14, 2011
Courts - Another update on "Three lawsuits may change how NCAA operates"
Updating this earlier ILB update from one year ago, Paul Elias of the AP had a lengthy story yesterday on...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, February 14, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Courts - "To Defend the Accused in a Tucson Rampage, First a Battle to Get Inside a Mind"
Joseph Goldstein and Marc Lacey of the NY Times have this very interesting story today on "Judy Clarke, the public...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, February 13, 2011
Courts - "Where Have You Gone, Atticus Finch?"
Ashby Jones at WSJ Law Blog wrote Friday:Where have you gone, Atticus Finch? And you, Perry Mason? What about Clarence...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, February 13, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Courts - "Documents in FOIA Requests Must Be 'Searchable,' Federal Judge Rules"
Daniel Wise reports in the Feb. 10, 2011 New York Law Journal in a story that begins:The federal government must...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, February 12, 2011
Courts - "Real Time Texting OKed by UK Supreme Court"
See this post from the Law Librarian Blog. In brief, the official policy is:[A]ny member of a legal team or...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Courts - Look forward to improved federal district court websites
Tony Mauro has the report at the Blog of Legal Times, headed "Makeover Urged for Federal Court Web Sites." A...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Courts - "Court Holds that Data About Car Speed and Brake Usage Stored in Car’s Computer Protected by Fourth Amendment"
Orin Kerr of the Volokh Conspiracy has posted an entry that begins:A California appellate court has handed down a fascinating...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, February 10, 2011
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Courts - "N.J. Supreme Court considers journalism shield laws in blogger case"
An interesting story dated Feb. 8th by MaryAnn Spoto of the Trenton NJ Star-Ledger begins:In a courtroom on the eighth...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Monday, February 07, 2011
Courts - More on "Convicted attorneys are still practicing: Some even have kept their licenses while serving time for their crimes"
Updating this Jan. 30, 2011 ILB entry re Wisconsin, headed "Convicted attorneys are still practicing: Some even have kept their...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, February 07, 2011
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Courts - More on: "The Health Care Ruling: The Experts Speak"
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 1, the WSJ Law Blog has another useful post on the topic today, this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Courts - "Justices weigh rights to Lake Erie beachfront access"
This entry this morning from How Appealing compiles a number reports on a case argued yesterday before the Ohio Supreme...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Courts - "The Health Care Ruling: The Experts Speak"
Ashby Jones of the WSJ Law Blog has a useful survey of reactions this morning. It also has two earlier...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Courts - "Convicted attorneys are still practicing: Some even have kept their licenses while serving time for their crimes"
That is the headline to this story today in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, reported by Cary Spivak and Ben Poston....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Courts - "Most capital punishment states have run out of key injection drug, or will soon"
Including Indiana, according to this lengthy AP story reported by Andrew Welsh-Huggins: A few quotes:Most of the 35 U.S. states...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, January 29, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Courts - Still more on: Illinois COA boots Rahm Emanuel from Chicago ballot
Comparable? The Jan. 27, 2011 Illinois Supreme Court decision in the dispute contesting Rahm Emanual's eligibility for the Chicago mayoral...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, January 28, 2011
Courts - “Increasingly, judges in civil cases are granting access to online caches that had formerly been considered off-limits,”
That is a quote from this Reuters Legal article, repeated in this WSJ Law Blog entry this morning by Ashby...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, January 28, 2011
Courts - "Hoosier legend Oscar Robertson is suing the NCAA for using images of him playing for UC on current trading cards"
The story, from WLWT Cincinnati, reports that:Attorney Stan Chesley said that Robertson found out about the cards when fans started...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, January 28, 2011
Courts - More on: Illinois COA boots Rahm Emanuel from Chicago ballot [Updated]
Illinois Supreme Court reversed yesterday. See "Courts - Illinois COA boots Rahm Emanuel from Chicago ballot," from the Volokh Conspiracy....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Courts - "Closed door Wisconsin Supreme Court meeting riles some justices"
Interesting story today by Patrick Marley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel begins:Madison — State Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, January 27, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Courts - "N.Y. Judges Present Range of Moonlighting Requests for Extra Pay"
Joel Stashenko of the NY Law Journal has a lengthy story today with examples of paid outside work requests that...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Courts - "UK settles religious-discrimination suit for $125,000"
Cheryl Truman reported Jan. 19, 2011 in the Lexington Herald Leader:The University of Kentucky will pay $125,000 to an astronomy...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Courts - Illinois COA boots Rahm Emanuel from Chicago ballot
Thanks to the Election Law Blog, here is the 42-page, 2-1 opinion. Here is the story from Politico. More, with...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, January 24, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Courts - "Legal challenge to Iowa judicial nominators is rejected"
As with challenges to the judicial selection systems for appellate judges in Kansas and Alaska, a federal court yesterday threw...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Courts - "The Oldest Bench Ever: Extreme aging in the federal judiciary—and the trouble it causes."
Long, very interesting article by Joseph Goldstein, published in Slate on Jan. 18, 2011. Some quotes:Life tenure, intended to foster...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Courts - "Kentucky judges can grant out-of-state minors permission for abortions, appeals court rules"
Andrew Wolfson has this story today in the Louisville Courier Journal. Some quotes from the lengthy story:Minors from other states...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, January 16, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Courts - "State of the Judiciary" in Indiana and Iowa
The Chief Justices of Indiana and Iowa addressed their respective General Assemblies yesterday. Here are some reports. Indiana. Eric Bradner...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Courts - Another laudatory article: "Judy Clarke: Jared Loughner's 'Amazing' Attorney"
Andrew Cohen, legal analyst for Politics Daily, has this long and detailed report today. A sample:The 22-year-old defendant in the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Courts - "Judges no strangers to balancing security "
MSNBC's Carrie Dann has a long story today that begins:WASHINGTON — As Americans grapple with the Tucson shootings and congressional...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Courts - "Jared Loughner's Federal Trial: Previewing the Tucson Massacre Case"
Here is a good law overview of what to expect in the trial of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Sunday, January 09, 2011
Courts - "Arizona Federal Judge, John Roll, 63"
The WSJ Law Blog has this obituary of John McCarthy Roll, the chief judge of the District of Arizona, shot...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, January 09, 2011
Friday, January 07, 2011
Courts - "Top Court in Massachusetts Voids Foreclosures by 2 Banks"
A Reuters story this afternoon posted by the NY Times begins:In a ruling that may affect foreclosures nationwide, the Massachusetts...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, January 07, 2011
Courts - "End the impeachment war on judges"
That is the heading to this opinion piece in today's Washington Post by Bert Brandenburg, who is "executive director of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, January 07, 2011
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Courts - In Illinois, "Can you cite to unpublished opinions?" What about Indiana?
The answer, according to an article by Helen W. Gunnarsson in the Illinois Bar Journal, is "In Illinois state court,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Courts - More on: "Post-Chandra Levy murder trial 12/1: The secret juror questionnaires"
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 1, 2010, Michael Doyle, a reporter for McClatchy's Washington Bureau continues to follow the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Courts - "Scalia on ‘Controverisal Stuff’: ‘I Don’t Even Have to Read the Briefs’"
Ashby Jones of the WSJ Law Blog posted this worth-reading entry today....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Monday, January 03, 2011
Courts - "Muncie native Robert Wilkins has been approved as a U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia"
From a Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology news release:TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The new year has brought a new position for...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, January 03, 2011
Courts - Updating: Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold and her daughter Sydney 's $50 million lawsuit against the Plain Dealer and Advance Internet
Updating a list of ILB entries from last spring, the most recent from April 8, 2010, Anthony Sowell of the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, January 03, 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
Courts - C-SPAN Radio's Saturday night broadcast of selected oral arguments
The ILB missed these, but this article from Andrew Cohen of Politics Daily makes me want to look for rebroadcasts....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 31, 2010
Courts - Interview with Justice Kagan
The entire 49:21 minute C-SPAN interview with Justice Elena Kagan, from which you may have seen excerpts....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Courts - "Golf Courses: A Gold Mine for Lawsuits"
On Sept. 13th, 2010 the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Cassie Pfenning v. Joseph Lineman, et...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 30, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Courts - More on "Reform of New York’s Small-Town Courts Stalls "
The ILB had this post on Jan. 9, 2010. It seems especially relevant now and bears rereading....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 27, 2010
Courts - "The Robe Seems To Suit New Justice Kagan"
From NPR's Morning Edition this morning, Nina Totenberg's very interesting 7 min 32 sec feature on the new justice....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 27, 2010
Courts - "Longtime judge takes on Cook County juvenile court system"
Chicago WGN posted this interesting report Dec. 24th. Some quotes:A veteran judge who helped revamp how death penalty cases are...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 27, 2010
Court - Outrage from some continues in Iowa
This Dec. 24th story from Jennifer Jacobs of the DesMoines Register gives the picture:Impeachment isn't the best route for getting...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 27, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Courts - "Blogger Who Threatened 7th Circuit Judges Is Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison"
Updating a series of ILB entries ending with this one from August 14, 2010, Mark Fass of the New York...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Courts - “Chief Justice Roberts promised to just call balls and strikes and then he moved the bases.”
Words from retiring Senator Arlen Specter. See the WSJ Law Blog here....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Courts - IU Mauer Law prof's study of post-Booker sentencing realities in Massachusetts federal courts cited
"Disparity cited in sentence lengths" is the headline today to this long Boston Globe story by Jonathan Saltzman. The US...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 20, 2010
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Courts - "SCOTUS Justices Offer Receptive Ear to Business Interests"
The Sunday NY Times has a major, front-page story today on the impact of business interests on the Roberts court:...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 19, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Courts - "Sandra Day O'Connor Interviews John Paul Stevens"
Read it here, in Newsweek. At one point, Justice O'Connor says:I was so stunned recently when I sat in the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 17, 2010
Courts - "After Iowa Judicial Ouster, a New Move to Bounce Other Justices"
Ashby Jones has the report in the WSJ Law Blog:Apparently the ouster of the trio wasn’t enough for some new...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 17, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Courts "Mississippi considers pro bono mandate for lawyers"
David Harrison, Stateline staff writer, has this long story that begins:For every client helped by a Mississippi legal aid office,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 16, 2010
Courts - New Hampshire swears in its first woman chief justice
This report today in the Concord Monitor, by Shira Schoenberg, begins:Justice Linda Stewart Dalianis took the oath of office yesterday...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 16, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Courts - "When do Supreme Court justices need to just sit down and be quiet?"
Dahlia Lithwick and Sonja West of Slate have a lengthy, interesting article today -- here are a few quotes:There has...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Courts - "Justice Kagan on Using a Kindle to Read Briefs " and a suggestion from the ILB
In this short C-SPAN clip, Justice Kagan says she reads briefs on a Kindle and remarks that maybe she should...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 13, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Courts - New appointment means Ohio Supreme Court has 4-3 female majority
So reported Jim Provance of the Toledo Blade yesterday. From the long story:COLUMBUS — Yvette McGee Brown, who would have...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, December 11, 2010
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Courts - Editorial: Will of voters should not guide judges
The editorial is from the DesMoines Iowa Register. It begins:[Gov.-elect] Terry Branstad suggested Monday new members of the Iowa Supreme...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 09, 2010
Courts - "On aliens, Arizona may win — for now"
So writes Lyle Denniston of the SCOTUSblog. Denniston's analysis begins:States and cities may gain added power to take some steps...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 09, 2010
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Courts - More on: 9th Circuit Prop. 8 oral argument online
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 6th, Ashby Jones of the WSJ Law Blog had an entry yesterday on how...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Monday, December 06, 2010
Courts - 9th Circuit Prop. 8 oral argument online today at 1 pm
Via C-SPAN:A three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will hear an oral argument today...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 06, 2010
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Courts - "Legal experts say that 2010 may be remembered as the year in which retention elections took on all the bruising characteristics of regular head-to-head judicial elections"
So reports John Gramlich in this story today in the Washington Post. Some quotes:Legal experts say that 2010 may be...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 05, 2010
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Courts - Did extensive use of Twitter in covering gruesome trial improperly sway jury?
William Glaberson reports today in the NY Times in a story that begins:NEW HAVEN — There were half a dozen...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 02, 2010
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Courts - "Post-Chandra Levy murder trial 12/1: The secret juror questionnaires"
Suits & Sentences, a legal affairs blog written by Michael Doyle, a reporter for McClatchy's Washington Bureau, has this entry...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Courts - SCOTUS questions broad use of FOIA exemption
Interesting AP story today by Mark Sherman that begins:WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the government's broad use...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Courts - "Amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure take effect today"
From How Appealing Blog, with an interesting note re new Appellate Rule 29(c)(5)....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Courts - More on: "Sealed cases are too hidden, says Kentucky Chief Justice: Chief justice says names, docket numbers to be public"
Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 25, 2010, in this post Michael Stevens of the Kentucky Law Blog quotes a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Courts - "Judges Make List of Top 10 High-Paying Jobs With No Future"
See this item from the ABA Journal Blog....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 29, 2010
Courts - "These assets turn into crime-fighting tools"
Joseph H. Hogsett, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, has an opinion piece today in the Indianapolis Star,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 29, 2010
Courts - Focus on Justice John Paul Stevens and the death penalty
Here, via YouTube, is last evening's 60 Minutes interview with the retired justice. The NY Times' Adam Liptak wrote Nov....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 29, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Courts - "Sealed cases are too hidden, says Kentucky Chief Justice: Chief justice says names, docket numbers to be public"
Jason Riley reported Nov. 22, 2010 in the Louisville Courier Journal:For the past several years, thousands of court cases across...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 25, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Courts - "California ruling backs police use of DNA from discarded cigarette"
A story Tuesday in the Sacramento Bee, reported by Denny Welsh, begins:In the first case of its kind in California,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Courts - "Michigan Supreme Court censures ex-justice for secretly recording court deliberations"
From a Detroit Free Press story by Dawson Bell:The Michigan Supreme Court has issued a pointed rebuke of former justice...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Courts - Recusal: "Judging Whether to Be the Judge"
Recusal was the subject of Adam Liptak's NY Times "Sidebar" column yesterday. “Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Courts - "Florida judges may be on political hot seat"
From the Palm Beach Post, a story by Jane Musgrave reporting:With little or no funding, several single-issue activist groups influenced...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 14, 2010
Courts - Have you ever wondered whether to use "pleaded" or "pled"?
The ILB has, and apparently so have many others, as Eugene Volokh discussed Nov.. 12 in his blog....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 14, 2010
Courts - "Does Routinely Sampling DNA From Arrested Felons Violate The Fourth Amendment? "
Sherry F. Colb, law prof at Cornell Law, writes Nov. 10, 2010 for Findlaw.com on the issue of routinely sampling...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 14, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Courts - "OSHA Case May Break New Legal Ground"
From The Blog of Legal Times, this post from Jenna Greene that begins:The business community is watching a potentially precedent-setting...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, November 12, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Courts - "Iowa Vote Shows the Injustice of Electing Judges"
That is the headline to a long article by Adam Cohen in Time Magazine. Cohen appears to argue for the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 11, 2010
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Courts - Howard Bashman's view on the Iowa retention vote
Howard Bashman, Pennsylvania appellate litigator and editor of How Appealing, has this Nov. 8th article in The Legal Intelligencer, headed:...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Courts - "Are class-action lawsuits going the way of the Dodo?" [Updated]
That is the first line of Ashby Jones' entry yesterday in the WSJ Law Blog, headed "Is D-Day Approaching For...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Monday, November 08, 2010
Courts - More on removal of Iowa judges
The Indianapolis Star has a long AP story today on p. 4 headed "Judge-ouster effort could spread." But it is...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 08, 2010
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Courts - "Will justices vote tarnish or help Iowa's image?"
The DesMoines Register today has a very long and thorough article, reported by Tom Witisky, on the impact of last...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 07, 2010
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Courts - "Russian Courts: Unyielding, an Oligarch vs. Putin"
Not your usual ILB entry, but this column today by Joe Nocera of the NY Times is fascinating. Here is...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, November 06, 2010
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Courts - Indiana case on "Petitions to Watch" list
On SCOTUSblog's "Petitions to Watch" list for the Court's Nov. 5th conference, the Indiana case of Bill K. Wilson, Superintendent,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 04, 2010
Courts - More on: "In Iowa, Voters Oust Judges Over Marriage Issue"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, there are a number of stories today. A.G. Sulzberger of the NY Times has a lengthy...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 04, 2010
Courts - Ruling on "Lawsuit seeks to change how Kansas Supreme Court judges are appointed"
Updating this Sept. 15, 2010 ILB entry, which related that "A federal judge has denied a request to stop the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 04, 2010
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Courts - "In Iowa, Voters Oust Judges Over Marriage Issue"
A.G. Sulzberger reports this morning in the NY Times in a lengthy story:DES MOINES — In a rebuke of the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Monday, November 01, 2010
Courts - Another example of a juror behaving badly
The WSJ Law Blog has the entertaining version this afternoon. William Glaberson's NY Times story takes the more serious approach,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 01, 2010
Courts - Five reasons why Nevadans should vote "no" on changing to an appointed, rather than elected, Supreme Court
A letter today in the Las Vegas Review-Journal from two professors Sylvia R. Lazos, at UNLV's William S. Boyd School...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 01, 2010
Courts - Updating "Cancer Patients Challenge the Patenting of a Gene"
The ILB has had a number of entries under that heading. On Oct. 29th Andrew Pollack had this story in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 01, 2010
Courts - "Judges Weigh Fairness of Juvenile Life Without Parole"
In this WSJ Law Blog entry from Friday, Oct. 29, Nathan Koppel wrote:Is it cruel and unusual punishment to sentence...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 01, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Courts - More on "Justices can't cite foreign law in death penalty cases but just fine with foreign lethal injection drugs for executions"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, there is a strong editorial today in the NY Times. A quote:In the case of Jeffrey...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Courts - "Is Calif. Ban on Violent Video Games Legal?"
Supplementing this entry from earlier today, the WSJ Law Blog has this entry that begins:In most states, it’s illegal to...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 28, 2010
Courts - Interesting assessments of court choices by Prof. Tribe leaked
Charilie Savage of the NY Times has the story, headed "Leaked: Obama Mentor’s Blunt Advice on Court Choices."...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 28, 2010
Courts - "High court case on violent games tests limits on speech"
Joan Biskupic of USA TODAY has a long story on the upcoming SCOTUS oral argument. A quote:On Tuesday, Supreme Court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 28, 2010
Courts - "Justices can't cite foreign law in death penalty cases but just fine with foreign lethal injection drugs for executions"
Those are attorney and Slate columnist Dahlia Lithwick's words from a tweet. I'm quoting them because some may have exactly...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 28, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Courts - "Corporate campaign ads haven't followed Supreme Court's prediction"
The subhead to this important LA Times story today, reported by David G. Savage, is "Companies and unions have been...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Courts - "Evil Men in Black Robes"
Attorneys Richard L. Hasen and Dahlia Lithwick have a feature in Slate, dated Oct. 26, on the five worst judicial...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Courts - Judicial retention races in Illinois and Iowa continue in the news
"No Opponent, But Big Money In Illinois Justice's Race" is the title of a great story this morning by Carrie...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Courts - "Effort to open Kentucky judicial records falls flat"
Andrew Wolfson of the Louisville Courier Journal has a lengthy story this morning on the transparency of Kentucky judicial records....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 25, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Courts - Study finds: "A conservative Indiana lawyer engineered the string of legal victories that have enabled corporations and wealthy individuals to channel tens of millions of dollars into this year's midterm elections secretly"
Greg Gordon of McClatchy Newspapers has a lengthy story today headed "The lawyer who argued that money is speech." A...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, October 24, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Courts - Justice up for retention in Ilinois is the subject of a focused campaign
"Attack ads target Illinois Supreme Court justice: Actors portraying the state's nastiest criminals 'explain' how Thomas Kilbride sided with them...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 22, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Courts - Even more on: Is the poker game Texas Hold 'em one of skill, or one of chance?
Updating the ILB entry posted just a few minutes ago, Lafayette attorney and blogger Doug Masson sends this note:That poker...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 21, 2010
Courts - More on: Is the poker game Texas Hold 'em one of skill, or one of chance?
Updating this ILB entry from Monday, Oct. 18th, Schuyler Kropf of the Charleston Post and Courier reports today at length...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 21, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Courts - "I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband."
So said Virginia Thomas in a phone message she recently left for Anita Hill. Read more in this story by...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Courts - Chief Justice Roberts claims two home towns
Does it depend on where he is speaking? This story today from the Buffalo News by Jay Rey is headed...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Law - "The ABA Is Slowly Coming Around on Law School Transparency"
That is the heading to this entry this morning from Elie Mystal of Above the Law. [More] See also this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Courts - Watch the SCOTUS oral arguments online, almost
First the SCOTUS announced at the beginning of this term that it would release the audio of each oral argument...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Courts - Covering a murder trial via Twitter
William Glaaberson of the NY Times reported Oct. 15th in a long story headed "A Grisly Murder Trial, in 140-Character...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 18, 2010
Courts - Is the poker game Texas Hold 'em one of skill, or one of chance?
That issue will be argued tomorrow before the South Carolina Supreme Court, according to this story by Schuyler Kropf of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 18, 2010
Courts - Iowa lawyer reprimanded for plagiarizing two briefs
Thanks to the Legal Profession Blog for the link to the Supreme Court of Iowa ruling of Oct. 15,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 18, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Courts - Retention battle being waged in Iowa re three justices
The DesMoines Register today is reporting this story by Tom Witosky that begins: "A new advocacy group that includes former...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 14, 2010
Court - WAPO's Robin Givhan comments on SCOTUS attire
"Trial by attire: Supreme Court look should go with everything we believe in" is the heading of this Oct. 9th...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 14, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Courts - "Ruling Proves to Be Primer on E-Discovery Enforcement: Judge Paul Grimm's recent opinion both a road map and commentary on spoliation, sanctions"
The ILB has had a number of entries on the admissibility of electronic evidence, including discussions of the widely-cited May...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Courts - "Facebooking in Court: Coping With Socially Networked Jurors"
Check out the Law.com article by Harry A. Valetk here. A useful article, it concludes:[E]nforcing court rules on the way...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 11, 2010
Courts - "2nd Circuit Overturns Religious License Plate Restriction"
The ILB has had a long list of entries on issues relating "specialty license plates," such as "God" plates and...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 11, 2010
Saturday, October 09, 2010
Courts - Protest during military funerals oral argument
The SCOTUS recently announced that this term it would make audio tapes of oral arguments available at the end of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 09, 2010
Courts - The Rise of the Specialized Supreme Court Bar [Updated]
Long, fascinating article today by the NY Times Adam Liptak. [Updated 10/11/10] For more on this, see this entry by...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 09, 2010
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Courts - More on: How significant are halting foreclosures to the housing market overall?
Supplementing yesterday's ILB entry, which included this quote from the NPR story:But how significant are halting foreclosures to the housing...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 07, 2010
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Courts - Use of GPS to track person's car without a warrant
From an editorial today in the NY Times:In August, three judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Courts - "Should the state require you to show ID to vote?"
This question is now an issue in Kansas. Rick Plumlee of the Wichita Eagle has a very long story today...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Monday, October 04, 2010
Courts - Nina Totenberg on Justice Stevens
NPR's Nina Totenberg today has a long, two-part feature on Justice Stevens. The first part (nearly 8 minutes) was this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 04, 2010
Courts - The Perils Of Big Money In Judicial Elections As Groups Target Judges Over Narrow Issues, Will That Affect How They Rule?
That is the heading to this column by Eliza Newlin Carney of The National Law Journal in her regular series,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 04, 2010
Courts - The SCOTUS women
Via SCOTUSblog, a photo of our three current women justices, plus Justice O'Connor....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 04, 2010
Courts - "Flawed Paperwork Aggravates a Foreclosure Crisis"
Supplementing our foreclosure coverage from this weekend, my NY Times this morning has this front-page story by Gretchen Morgenson. The...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 04, 2010
Saturday, October 02, 2010
Courts - More on "GMAC Mortgage Stops Foreclosures in 23 States"
Updating this ILB entry from earlier today, David Streitfeld is reporting today in the NY Times in a story that...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 02, 2010
Courts - Even more on "Lawsuit seeks to change how Kansas Supreme Court judges are appointed"
Updating this Sept. 15, 2010 ILB entry, which related that "A federal judge has denied a request to stop the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 02, 2010
Courts - "GMAC Mortgage Stops Foreclosures in 23 States"
This includes Indiana. What does this mean for the future? What does it mean for finalized foreclosures? The ILB hopes...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 02, 2010
Friday, October 01, 2010
Courts - "Couple Allowed to Sue Morgue for Retaining Son's Brain"
Mark Fass reports today in the New York Law Journal, in a story that begins:The New York City Medical Examiner's...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 01, 2010
Courts - More pre-first Monday in October stories
"Major cases for the Supreme Court's 2010-11 term" is the heading of this lengthy story by Joan Biskupic in USA...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 01, 2010
Courts - A guide to the technology cases before the SCOTUS
A long survey today by David Kravets of the Wired blog, Threat Level, begins:The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 01, 2010
Courts - "Your Early Guide to the Big Business Cases of the High Court Term"
A useful review from Ashby Jones of the WSJ Law Blog....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 01, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Ind. Courts - Dueling law profs on Camm trial? [Updated]
The second half of this ILB entry yesterday quoted a LCJ story quoting Thomas Schornhorst, a professor emeritus of the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Courts - SCOTUS to release the audiotape recordings of all of the arguments at the end of each argument week
This is a distinct step forward. See this entry by Lyle Denniston of the SCOTUSblog for discussion of some pros...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Courts - "Free Speech to be Tested in Coming Supreme Court Term"
That is the heading to this entry from the WSJ Law Blog. It points to a WSJ story yesterday by...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Courts - "Circuit Split Deepens Over 1st Circuit Ruling on Effective Date of Sex Offender Registration Act"
Sheri Qualters reports this afternoon in The National Law Journal, in a story that begins:The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 24, 2010
Courts - It was bad enough when there was one victim
Ryan Haggerty and Jason Stein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report this afternoon in a story that begins:The state Office...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 24, 2010
Courts - "Unfinished transcripts put district court reporter behind bars: Wayne Co. judge: Court reporter has stalled cases"
So reads the headline to this lengthy story today by Joe Swickard of the Detroit Free Press. It begins:Paulette Martin,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 24, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Courts - "It's systemic now, and … the system is not able to control this type of behavior. There is no accountability."
That is a quote from Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman, an expert on misconduct by prosecutors, in this lengthy...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Courts - "Why Have Federal Civil Jury Trials Basically Disappeared?"
Ashby Jones of the WSJ Law Blog had this post yesterday. It included nine reasons why the number of federal...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Courts - "An inmate shouldn't die because of his lawyers' error"
A Washington Post editorial today about the SCOTUS appeal of Cory Maples. A sample: A judge's order denying the last...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Courts - "Three years after landmark court decision, Louisville still struggles with school desegregation"
Robert Barnes of the Washington Post has this lengthy report today that begins:LOUISVILLE - Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 20, 2010
Courts - Jury issues in major criminal trials
I read this NY Times "Reporter's Notebook" story Sunday by William Glaberson, headed "In Court, Echoes and Ghosts," about a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 20, 2010
Courts - "Missouri Tells Judges Cost of Sentences"
A story dated Sept. 18, in the NY Times, reported by Monica Davey, begins:ST. LOUIS — When judges here sentence...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 20, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Courts - Yet more on "Lawsuit seeks to change how Kansas Supreme Court judges are appointed"
Update this most recent ILB entry from Sept. 13, 2010, Ron Sylvester of the Wichita Eagle reports:WICHITA — A federal...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Courts - "Burp v Breathalyzer: Kentucky Supreme Court to decide issue in DUI case"
That is the headline to this lengthy story today by Andrew Wolfson of the Louisville Courier Journal. A few quotes:It...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 13, 2010
Courts - "History Through A Supreme Court Justice's Lens"
A fascinating Nina Totenberg story today on NPR's Morning Edition on Justice Breyer's new book, read or listen to it...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 13, 2010
Courts - "Perry County Kentucky judge stabbed while eating lunch"
From the AP, a brief story dated Sept. 11th:HAZARD, Ky. — A man who once stood before Perry County Judge...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 13, 2010
Courts - Still more on "Lawsuit seeks to change how Kansas Supreme Court judges are appointed"
Updating earlier ILB entries (the most recent here, from Aug. 29, 2010) re the suit challenging the Kansas method of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Courts - Twenty-first century jury issues
Take a look at this post in Sentencing Law & Policy blog, along with its links. Also see this post...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, September 12, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Courts - Still more on: "Kansas joins case to head off federal carbon regulation"
Supplementing Wednesday's ILB entry on the amicus brief filed by the Indiana AG in Connecticut v. AEP, and yesterday's ILB...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 10, 2010
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Courts - "Ohio's republican justices squawk over website"
From the Columbus Dispatch's "Daily Briefing" blog, see this item posted by statehouse reporter James Nash. Ohio justices are elected,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Courts - "Kansas joins case to head off federal carbon regulation"
This lengthy story appeared in the Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 edition of the Wichita Kansas Eagle. Some quotes:Attorney General Steve...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Courts - "Appeals Court in Atlanta Again Rejects Racial Discrimination Claim"
Here are a couple quotes from Adam Liptak's "Sidebar" column in the NY Times of Sept. 6, 2010:Last month, for...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Courts - "Barring Hunters From Jury Panel Violates 'Batson,' N.Y. Judge Finds" What about Indiana?
Daniel Wise writes today in the New York Law Journal in a story that begins:The same U.S. Supreme Court precedent...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Monday, September 06, 2010
Courts - "Jefferson County court-video failures cause trials, hearings to be lost"
The ISBA Appellate Section held a CLE on Oct. 28, 2008 titled "Welcome to the 21st Century: An Appellate Perspective."...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 06, 2010
Courts - "Florida has set up foreclosure-only courts to reduce a huge backlog, but borrowers’ lawyers are critical of the process"
Although about Florida, this long NY Times article reported by Gretcheen Morgenson and Geraldine Fabrikant recounts the various horrors of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 06, 2010
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Courts - More on "Bursting Pipes Lead to a Legal Battle "
Following up on this Feb. 12, 2010 ILB entry, JM Eagle issued a press release yesterday headed "Indiana joins California,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 02, 2010
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Courts - Still more on "Justices Take Case on Video Game Law"
Updating earlier ILB entries, Tony Mauro and Carrie Levine report today in a very long story the National Law Journal:Representatives...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Courts - "Judicial Reform: How to Cut Down on Hung Juries"
A long story dated Aug. 31, 2010 on the Time website quotes Chief Justice Shepard extensively on hung juries, such...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Courts - "NY Times Series on Civil Commitment and Sex Offenders"
Sex Crimes, "a blog devoted top the criminal laws regulating and punishing sexual violence," yesterday featured a "multimedia New York...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Courts - More on "Lawsuit seeks to change how Kansas Supreme Court judges are appointed"
Updating this ILB entry from August 27, 2010, here is the complaint filed in USDC, District of Kansas on...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, August 29, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Courts - "Lawsuit seeks to change how Kansas Supreme Court judges are appointed"
A story by Ron Sylvester of the Wichita Eagle begins:An Indiana lawyer has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, August 27, 2010
Courts - California on its way to a woman chief justice
From the August 26th Recorder, a story by Kate Moser headed "Judicial Committee Unanimously Confirms California's First Filipina-American Chief Justice"...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, August 27, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Courts - "Courtroom Paintings Raise Questions on Artist’s Perspective"
Read this article today by Adam Liptak of the NY Times if you have argued a case before the SCOTUS,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 23, 2010
Courts - More on: "What's Behind the Flurry of Judicial Resignations in Georgia?"
Supplementing this ILB entry from August 20th, Nathan Koppel of the WSJ Law Blog today writes about a lengthy Aug....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 23, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Courts - "What's Behind the Flurry of Judicial Resignations in Georgia?"
An interesting story today by R. Robin McDonald of the Fulton County Daily Report that begins:Since Alapaha Circuit Chief Judge...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, August 20, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Courts - "Wall Street Journal Calls For Fitzgerald Resignation"
This August 10, 2010 ILB entry linked to a Chicago Tribune story headed "Verdict could cast light or shadow on...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Courts - Interesting commentary on interesting observation in 9th Circuit opinion
From Above the Blog....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Courts - "Blago guilty on one count: Lying to the FBI"
From the Chicago Tribune at 4:45 pm, CDT:A federal jury today convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich of only one count...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Courts - "The New Politics of Judicial Elections, 2000-2009: Decade of Change"
That is the title of a report released today by the Justice at Stake Campaign, the Brennan Center for Justice...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 16, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Courts - Still more on "GPS and Privacy Rights"
Updating this ILB entry from August 6, 2010, Charlie Savage of the NY Times had a story Aug. 13th headed...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, August 15, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Courts - Blagojevich on trial: " The jury, in its 10th day of deliberations, has sent no notes and asked no questions in more than a week"
It just occurred to me that the Blagojevich jury is still out! I checked the Chicago Tribune and it looked...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Monday, August 09, 2010
Courts - Ted Olson on Fox News Sunday discussing his recent victory in overturning Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriages in California
Well worth watching - access it here, via the Wonk Room....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 09, 2010
Friday, August 06, 2010
Courts - More on "GPS and Privacy Rights"
From a Nov. 23, 2009 ILB entry:From an editorial today in the NY Times:A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C.,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, August 06, 2010
Courts - "Karen Sypher stoic, silent as jury convicts her of extorting Rick Pitino"
Here is the wrap-up, from the Louisville Courier Journal, with links to many other stories. Here is a list of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, August 06, 2010
Courts - More on: California's Same-sex marriage ban nullified: Proposition 8 cannot be enforced
Updating yesterday's ILB entry on the federal court decision this week striking down California's Prop 8 which banned gay marriage,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, August 06, 2010
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Courts - California's Same-sex marriage ban nullified: Proposition 8 cannot be enforced
Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog had this post late yesterday, with a link to the 138-page opinion. There has been a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, August 05, 2010
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Courts - Sexting in the news
The ILB has had a number of earlier entries on sexting. Two new stories: First Story. "Pennsylvania Latest State to...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Courts - "A federal judge on Monday ruled that the state of Virginia’s court challenge to the health care refrom plan may go forward"
The Aug. 2, 2010 opinion in the case, Virginia v. Sebelious, out of the ED Virginia, is here. SCOTUSBlog's Lyle...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Courts - "Former U.S. prosecutor practiced on suspended law license"
Here is a story from yesterday, posted by WRAL.com in Raleigh, NC. It begins:Raleigh, N.C. — The validity of some...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Courts - "A Mailroom Mix-Up That Could Cost a Life" - Should a client be blamed for a mistake he did not commit?
From Adam Liptak's NY Tmes "Sidebar" column today:Cory R. Maples, a death row inmate in Alabama, must have been grateful...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Monday, August 02, 2010
Courts - "Volunteer federal prosecutors: They Work Hard — For No Money"
Main Justice has the story by Channing Turner. It begins:Some U.S. Attorney’s offices have added “special” prosecutor positions that offer...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 02, 2010
Courts - Wrapping up week one of Karen Sypher trial
Updating our most recent link to a Rick Pitino trial story, from July 29th, here are two more:"Rick Pitino and...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 02, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Courts - "Judge Refuses to Vacate Verdicts in Astor Trial"
Following on a long line of stories about the Brooke Astor estate dispute, James Barron of the NY Times reported...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Courts - "Rick Pitino becomes emotional describing embarrassment from Karen Sypher case"
See the Louisville Courier Journal story here....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, July 29, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Courts - "Karen Sypher conviction no 'slam dunk' in Rick Pitino extortion case"
That is the headline to a lengthy story last evening by Andrew Wolfson of the Louisville Courier Journal that begins:On...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Courts - More on "Arrest has put one of the hottest controversies in American law enforcement to its first major test"
Updating this ILB entry from July 9, 2010, the July 24, 2010 has a story in the business section, reported...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, July 26, 2010
Courts - "Court Under Roberts Is Most Conservative in Decades"
Adam Liptak reports in a lengthy, front-page NY Times story today on the Roberts Court. A sample:Chief Justice Roberts, 55,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, July 26, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Courts - "But it's getting hard to find politicians willing to set partisanship aside. So when there's an example of one who does, and who has for decades, it's worth pointing out."
So writes Matthew Tully of the Indianapolis Star today in a column that begins:Sen. Richard Lugar's statement about the latest...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Courts - "More Strapped Litigants Skip Lawyers in Court "
That is the headline to this story by Nathan Koppel in today's WSt Journal. A few quotes:A growing number of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Courts - "With another woman, the SCOTUS can't help but change"
Check out David S. Broder's column for tomorrow's Washington Post....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Courts - "Pick for Calif. Chief Justice Could Create Court's First Female Majority "
The Recorder is reporting today that:Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Third District Court of Appeal Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye to be...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Courts - Intensive parenting can become over-parenting: Article, therefore, cautions against hasty incorporation of Intensive Parenting norms into the law.
That is from a forthcoming law journal article currently available at SSRN. Here is the synopsis:Today the child is king....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Courts - "Federal appeals court nixes ban on Kentucky judicial party affiliations" [Updated]
A story this afternoon via the LCJ by Brett Barrouquere of the AP begins:LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A federal appeals court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Courts - "Supreme Court Review: Campaign Cash, Controversy"
NPR's Nina Totenberg had a 7 min 36 sec review of the SCOTUS term on Morning Edition today. Read and...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Friday, July 09, 2010
Courts - "Arrest has put one of the hottest controversies in American law enforcement to its first major test"
From a lengthy, interesting story by Jennifer Steinhauer in today"s NY Times:Only two states, Colorado and California, have a codified...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, July 09, 2010
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Court - Georgia death penalty case full of murky legal questions
A long story reported by Russ Bynum in yesterday's Atlanta Journal Constitution begins:Thanks to an order from the U.S. Supreme...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Saturday, July 03, 2010
Courts - More on the Kagan nomination for the SCOTUS
Two articles from the last week caught my eye: "Kagan Reminds Senators: Legislation Is Your Job" is the headline to...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, July 03, 2010
Courts - "Summary rulings spike at the high court"
Interesting article by Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal - a quote:[A]t the end of a term that produced...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, July 03, 2010
Courts - Kentucky public defenders challenge the constitutionality of allowing prosecutors to decide whether to seek the death penalty
Jim Hannah of the Cincinnati Enquirer reported July 1, 2010. Some quotes:A person who commits a crime in one county...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, July 03, 2010
Courts - "Martin Ginsburg's Legacy: Love Of Justice"
Listen to NPR's Nina Totenberg's report this morning: Martin Ginsburg's Legacy: Love Of Justice. It begins:On the last day of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, July 03, 2010
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Courts - "Tipping the Scales: In the south, women have made huge strides in the state judiciaries"
A fascinating, and timely, article in the July ABA Journal. The Journal cover has photos of three state chief justices,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Environment - DC Circuit rules unilateral administrative cleanup orders do not violate due process [Updated]
"Superfund is Constitutional" is the heading to this entry by Jonathan H. Adler at the Volokh Conspiracy. [Updated 6/30/10] "DC...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Courts - More on "Rick Pitino extortion trial judge asked to reconsider media restrictions"
Updating this ILB entry from June 26th, Andrew Wolfson reports today in the Louisville Courier Journal:A federal judge has dropped...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Courts - SCOTUS action today
Via SCOTUSblog, we are following the SCOTUS action on the final day of its term. Decisions are anticipated in four...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 28, 2010
Courts - Ruth Bader Ginsburg loses husband Marty after 56 years of marriage. One of the great feminists married to another
So writes Slate's Dahlia Lithwick this morning on Twitter, with a link to this story with a great photo of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 28, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Courts - SCOTUSblog presents "The scenario for Monday: How closing day will unfold"
Tomorrow is a very big SCOTUS day. The final four decisions of the term will be issued. It is Justice...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, June 27, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Courts - "Rick Pitino extortion trial judge asked to reconsider media restrictions"
Updating this ILB entry from June 23rd on the Rick Pitino extortion trial, Andrew Wolfson of the Louisville Courier Journal...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, June 26, 2010
Courts - "High court ruling could help convicted region politicians"
Teresa Auch Schultz reported June 25 in the Gary Post Tribune in a story that begins:A U.S. Supreme Court decision...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Courts - Final four SCOTUS decisions expected Monday; also 1st day of Kagan hearings
Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal Blog has a very good overview of what is anticipated Monday from the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, June 25, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Courts - Still more on Doe v. Reed
Election law expert Rick Pildes has a entry titled "The First Amendment, Direct Democracy, and the Risks of Technology: Today's...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, June 24, 2010
Courts - New decisions from the SCOTUS this morning [Updated]
Again, via SCOTUSblog. Only 11 cases left to be decided, and two days scheduled, today and next Monday (which is...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, June 24, 2010
Courts - "Assessing the Changing World of Civil Procedure Post-'Twombly,' 'Iqbal'"
Jeff Jeffrey of The National Law Journal has a story dated June 21st that begins:The impact of two landmark Supreme...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Courts - Civil commitment laws for sex offenders squeeze states' budgets
An AP story today by Martiga Lohn focuses on the 20 states with civil commitment laws for sex offenders who...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Courts - Here is the juror questionaire in the Rick Pitino extortion case
From the Lexington Herald-Leader:The jury questionnaire, released Wednesday, includes multiple questions about a potential juror's connections to the [University of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Courts - Women lawyers, a moving target?
Two headlines posted today on the the ABA Law Blog caught my eye: "Kagan E-Mails Reveal a ‘Sharp-Elbowed and Sometimes...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 21, 2010
Courts - More on "Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries"
Updating this ILB entry from June 3, 2010, NPR's All Things Considered also had a brief story about the study...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 21, 2010
Courts - More on today's SCOTUS rulings
Updating the entry from this morning, SCOTUSblog, that blog has posted this summary of the decision today in Monsanto Co....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 21, 2010
Courts - SCOTUS issues more opinions this morning
Via SCOTUSblog, three opinions so far, none of the bigees (although I'm sure they are bigees for some ...). The...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 21, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Courts - "Stevens' Recusal Makes Difference in Fla. Property Ruling" [Updated]
Tony Mauro reports in The National Law Journal today that Justice Stevens figured prominently in another SCOTUS decision yesterday (in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, June 18, 2010
Courts - "High Court Rules On Beaches, Texting, Labor Board"
NPR's Nina Totenberg reported this morning on three of yesterday's opinions by the SCOTUS. Read, or listen to, her story...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, June 18, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Courts - "Ken Feinberg, America’s problem solver extraordinare!"
Just posted on the WSJ Law Blog, "Ken Feinberg (Who Else?) To Handle Oil-Spill Escrow Fund." [More] And see "Who...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Courts - "Supreme Court Rejects New Albany DVD Case: Way now clear for adult store to remain open despite city ordinance"
Updating the ILB entry from earlier today where New Albany said the case was not closed, Mark Kernes reports today...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Courts - "New albany city attorney said Monday the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to stay out of New Albany’s legal battle with an adult book store doesn’t mean the case is closed"
Re the denial yesterday of the City's petition for cert to the SCOTUS in the case of City of New...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Courts - SCOTUS news from today [Updated]
Updating this ILB entry from June 9th, headed "Indiana confrontation clause case being considered for cert by SCOTUS at the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 14, 2010
Courts - "Repeat DUI offenders a challenge for law enforcement"
David Singleton reported June 13, 2010 in the Scranton Pa Times-Tribune about "double DUIs" - cases where motorrists arrested for...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 14, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Courts - SCOTUS term's pending cases
SCOTUSblog has a good roundup by Anna Christensen of what is likely coming yet this month. The intro:So far, the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, June 12, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Courts: More on "Distasteful speech protected, too"
Last Sunday the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette published a commentary authored by their Washington editor, Sylvia A. Smith. The subject:...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, June 11, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Courts - Justice Souter's Harvard Commencement remarks
Here, via the Harvard Gazette, is the text of the remarks Justice David Souter delivered at Harvard's 359th Commencement. And...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, June 10, 2010
Courts - "400 drunken-driving convictions in D.C. based on flawed test, official says"
Mary Pat Flaherty of the Washington Post reports today:Nearly 400 people were convicted of driving while intoxicated in the District...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, June 10, 2010
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Courts - "Justices Approve Bureau of Prisons' Calculations for 'Good Time Credit'"
More on one of the SCOTUS decisions yesterday, from Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal. The story begins:In a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Monday, June 07, 2010
Courts - Monday's orders, explained by Lyle Denniston
In a lengthy and valuable new post, Denniston, of SCOTUSblog, writes that today the Supreme Court:has put off, until after...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 07, 2010
Courts - More on: "Courts - "Despite adjustments, court harried in June " [Updated]
The SCOTUS issued three opinions this morning. None of them were the cases of interest on the list in the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 07, 2010
Courts - More on: NJ Governor's failure to grant tenure to sitting justice causes controvery
Updating this ILB entry from May 15, 2010, Henry Gottlieb of the New Jersey Law Journal reports today in a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 07, 2010
Courts - "Despite adjustments, court harried in June "
Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY, has this report:WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices front-loaded their calendar this term, holding more oral arguments...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, June 07, 2010
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Courts "Distasteful speech protected, too"
That is the heading to a commentary today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, authored by their Washington editor, Sylvia...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, June 06, 2010
Friday, June 04, 2010
Courts - More on: "Did a Minnesota judge and his law clerk attempt to collude to put a clerk on the bench? "
Updating this ILB entry from earlier today, Above the Law now has another entry....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, June 04, 2010
Courts - "Did a Minnesota judge and his law clerk attempt to collude to put a clerk on the bench? "
Remember that this spring a Lake County judge withdrew his candidacy for reelection four minutes before the close of filing...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, June 04, 2010
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Courts - "Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries"
Shaila Dewan reported in the June 1, 2010 NY Times in a long story that began:In late April in a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, June 03, 2010
Courts - More on "Eight Judges Out: Mass Recusal Cripples 5th Circuit"
It is not only the circuit judges, the district judges are also recusing themselves. Tresa Baldas of The National Law...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, June 03, 2010
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Courts - "Eight Judges Out: Mass Recusal Cripples 5th Circuit"
Ashby Jones reports in a worth reading in full entry in the WSJ Law Blog:[A] full eight judges on the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Courts - SCOTUS decisions today
Carr v. U.S. - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that "that a 2007 law (SORNA) that requires sex offenders to register does...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Courts - More on: "Judge probes possible rogue jury in cockfighting case: Juror admits surfing Internet in defiance of judge’s orders"
One really can't top the story posted here May 27, 2010, about the federal court juror in a recent South...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, May 31, 2010
Courts - The new Slap Suit? When Online Grievances Are Met With a Lawsuit"
Dan Frosch reports today in the NY Times in a long story that begins:After a towing company hauled Justin Kurtz’s...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Courts - "Circuit Split Widens on Copyright Registration Timing"
Amanda Bronstad has the story today in The National Law Journal. Interesting article. It begins:When does a copyright get registered?...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, May 28, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Courts - " Judge probes possible rogue jury in cockfighting case: Juror admits surfing Internet in defiance of judge’s orders"
This is a pretty astonishing story from the Columbia, South Carolina paper, The State. Here is some of John Monk's...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, May 27, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Courts - "District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?"
Interesting post today by Eugene Volokh. It begins:I had always assumed that federal district court opinions (as opposed to Court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Courts - More on "Several States Look to Boost Retirement Age for Judges"
Updating this April 14, 2010 ILB entry, which concluded:Indiana's retirement age for appellate judges, set by statute, is 75. For...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Courts - Kagan's Harvard Law report card
Here it is, via the NY Times story today by Charlie Savage and Lisa Faye Petak, headed "A B-Minus? The...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Courts - More on "NCAA Documents in Fraud Case Made Public by Florida State"
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 15, 2009, Paul Flemming of the Tallahassee News Journal reports today under the headline:...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, May 24, 2010
Courts - SCOTUS action today [Updated]
The SCOTUS has granted cert in 5 cases, and issued a number of opinions this morning. Check SCOTUSblog here. [Updated]...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, May 24, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Law "Many school officials incorrectly believe they have the right to search through cell phones whenever a student is misusing one"
"Student's Privacy Rights Violated in Pa. 'Sexting' Case, ACLU Suit Says" is the headline to a story by Shannon Duffy...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, May 22, 2010
Courts - "Do Supreme Court justices tweet?"
Find the answer via the Washington Post, which features a short clip from "the answers given Thursday at a House...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, May 22, 2010
Courts - "Federal Judge Weinstein Takes On Child Pornography Laws"
From a long story by A.G. Sulzberger in the May 21st NY Times:There is little public sympathy for collectors of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, May 22, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Courts - "Republicans Push Lawsuits to Unshackle Corporate Campaign Cash"
Jonathan D. Salant reports today in Business Week, in a lengthy story -- some quotes: May 21 (Bloomberg) -- The...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, May 21, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Courts - "Is a lifetime in jail the best way to deal with sex offenders?"
Newsweek columnist Mary Carmichael wrote yesterday on Monday's SCOTUS decision in US v. Comstock (ILB entry here) in an article...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, May 20, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Courts - Here is Elena Kagan’s Senate questionnaire
Via SCOTUSblog. On p. 199 Kagan describes the White House selection process, as it applied to her -- when she...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Courts - "Justices Rule on Prison Time for Juveniles, Sex Offenders"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry on the two big rulings yesterday from the SCOTUS, Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle of The...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Courts - Several big SCOTUS opinions today
This is thanks to SCOTUSblog: US v. Comstock - "The Court upholds the law passed by Congress to order the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, May 17, 2010
Courts - Impact of SCOTUS Citizens United decision seen in Kentucky magistrate's race?
Columnist Joseph Gerth writes today in the Louisville Courier Journal:While the top players in the U.S. Senate race are lobbing...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, May 17, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Courts - NJ Governor's failure to grant tenure to sitting justice causes controvery
Follwing upon the ILB's Minnesota Supreme Court appointments entry, politics is also an issue in the non-reappointment of a New...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, May 16, 2010
Courts - Minnesota Supreme Court restricts governor's ability to "unallot" appropriated funds; dissenter appointed chief justice
In this June 23, 2009 entry. the ILB looked at the 2009 budget bill and the authority it gave Gov....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, May 16, 2010
Courts - Overview of the 2009-2010 SCOTUS term
Sat. evening C-Span's "America and the Courts" had a terrific two-hour show featuring a panel, chaired by Solicitor General Elena...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, May 16, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
Courts - Blogger appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court
SCOTUSblog has this entry today, headed "Congratulations to David Stras." For more, see this entry from the blog, Politics in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, May 14, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Courts - "State Supreme Courts Have Many Judges Outside the 'Judicial Monastery'"
Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this story today - some quotes:The U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Elena...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, May 13, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Courts - "Try to avoid behavior that leads judges to officially castigate you in their court opinions"
Headed "Tips for Lawyers," Prof. Eugene Volokh of The Volokh Conspiracy today points to a New York federal court opinion...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Courts - "The Administration plans to identify its nominee in 'guidance' at 7:20 am tomorrow morning, with a formal announcement by the President at 11 am"
So begins this long entry by Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog. [More] Kagan announcement now set for 10 AM....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, May 09, 2010
Courts - "Family sues over daughters' deaths in crash with Illinois trooper on cell phone"
A chilling story reported today by Len Wells in the Evansville Courier & Press:As Illinois State Police begin enforcing the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, May 09, 2010
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Courts - "No cameras, no audio and now, no main entry to the high court. Is Court growing more insular under Roberts?"
So reads the headline to this story by Tony Mauro in The National Law Journal....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, May 08, 2010
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Courts - More on "Key New York Suit Calls Public Defender Programs Inadequate"
Updating this ILB entry from March 16, 2010, William Glaberson reports today in the NY Times that:There are enough signs...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, May 06, 2010
Courts - "Kentucky courts slashing 113 jobs"
Beth Musgrave of the Lexington Herald-Leader reported in a lengthy April 29, 2010 story:FRANKFORT — Kentucky courts will axe 113...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, May 06, 2010
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Courts - "Judge closes trial's Internet window: In a medical negligence case, the court clerk was told to block online access to public documents"
Deciding that admonishing jurors not to access the internet was not enough, a judge in Oklahoma has twice blocked public...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Courts - "N.Y. Court Expands Rights of Nonbirth Parents in Same-Sex Relationships" [Updated]
Jeeremy W. Peters reports today in the NY Times:ALBANY — New York State’s highest court somewhat expanded the rights of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Courts - "Federal Judge Bars 'Sexting' Prosecution of Pennsylvania Girls"
By now the ILB has a long list of entries on sexting, but an AP story today indicates that the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Courts - More on "Justices Take Case on Video Game Law"
Updating this ILB entry from April 26, 2010, Linda Greenhouse, the former Supreme Court correspondent for the NY Times who...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, May 02, 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
Courts - Angry filings in Cook County dispute
Above the Law has an entry this afternoon containing quotes from, and links to, a motion to reconisder and a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, April 30, 2010
Courts - "New Push to Give Abuse Victims More Time to Sue: Latest Scandals to Hit the Catholic Church Ratchet Up Pressure on State Lawmakers to Extend or Eliminate Statutes of Limitations"
Ashby Jones has a long story in today in the WSJ - some quotes:The recent wave of accusations that the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, April 30, 2010
Courts - More on: "The danger of judicial activism now comes from the right, not the left"
Echoing yesterday's ILB entry, which quoted an editorial column, today Charlie Savage and Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the NY Times...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Courts - More on: "Cameras and the Supreme Court "
Updating this ILB entry from earlier today, The Blog of Legal Times has an entry this afternoon reporting on this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 29, 2010
Courts - "The danger of judicial activism now comes from the right, not the left"
So writes E.J. Dionne, columnist for Washington Post, in a long column featured today on the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 29, 2010
Courts - "Cameras and the Supreme Court "
This morning SCOTUSblog has a long entry by Matt Sundquistby setting out the history of cameras and courts, the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 29, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Courts - Transcript of Doe #1 v. Reed oral argument [Updated]
Updating this ILB entry from earlier today, the SCOTUS has now posted the transcript of today's oral argument in Doe...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Courts - "Without Scalia, whither anonymity? John Doe No. 1 v. Reed, Argument recap"
Here is SCOTUSblog's Lyle Denniston's great writeup of this morning's oral argument, updating this ILB entry from earlier this morning...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Courts - More on: "Supreme Court takes up Wash. case involving disclosure of petition signatures: The case could decide whether signing a petition for a ballot measure is private or whether the names of signers can be made public"
Updating this ILB entry from April 25, 2010, about an oral argument today before the SCOTUS, Nina Totenberg of NPR...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Courts - More on: "Justices Take Case on Video Game Law"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, today's papers have a number of stories, including this one from Warren Richey of the Christian...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Courts - "Wal-Mart to face massive class-action suit"
A story from Paul Elias of the AP in today's Washington Post begins:SAN FRANCISCO -- A sharply divided federal appeals...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Courts - "Kentucky Supreme Court rejects state funding for Baptist college"
Updating this April 19, 2009 ILB entry headed "Can the Indiana General Assembly appropriate money to Notre Dame?" and the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Courts - "Should Supreme Court Opinions Be Anonymous?"
Interesting post and comments at Above the Law....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 26, 2010
Courts - "Justices Take Case on Video Game Law"
The NY Times has just posted an AP story reporting:WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court, wading into a thicket of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 26, 2010
Courts - "Pressure Grows to Pick a Nonjudge for the High Court: All nine justices on the current U.S. Supreme Court hail from the federal appellate bench"
Tony Mauro has an interesting report this morning in The National Law Journal, that concludes:Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 26, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Courts - "Honoring the Legacies of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., and Justice Thurgood Marshall" transcript
The most recent issue of the Indiana Law Review contains the transcript of a Feb. 23, 2010 panel discussion...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, April 25, 2010
Courts - "Supreme Court takes up Wash. case involving disclosure of petition signatures: The case could decide whether signing a petition for a ballot measure is private or whether the names of signers can be made public"
Next Wednesday, April 28, 2010, the SCOTUS will heard oral arguments in the case of Doe v. Reed. Here is...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, April 25, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Courts - 7th Circuit Judge Diane P. Wood and her colleagues, Judges Posner and Easterbrook
"Judicial Bouts Reveal Power of Persuasion" is the heading to this long article by Sheryl Gay Stolberg in today's NY...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 22, 2010
Courts - If only the SCOTUS would permit cameras at oral arguments, comedians wouldn't have to do reenactments using finger puppets
Updating this ILB entry from April 20, 2010, headed "Our 'tech-savvy' supreme court", New York Magazine has an item this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Courts - "Can Texas court require litigants to file all documents through LexisNexis 'File and Serve?'"
Check out Law Librarian Blog entry and links....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Courts - More on: "Families Say Schools Snoop in Their Homes With District-Issued Laptops & Webcams"
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 19, 2010, Marha Neil has a report in the ABA Journal re a federal...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Courts - "Our ''Tech-Savvy Supreme Court"
I found these entries yesterday from the WSJ Law Blog and DC Dicta to be seriously scarey, given the age...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Courts - "Supreme Court still resists pressure to televise proceedings"
Not only that, but, according to C-Span:[F]or the seventh and final time this term, the Supreme Court has turned down...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 19, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Courts - "Several States Look to Boost Retirement Age for Judges"
Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal reports today:As Justice John Paul Stevens is so ably about to prove, "90"...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Courts - How Stevens leaving will change the SCOTUS internal dynamics
The knowledgeable Lyle Denniston SCOTUSBlog has of valuable insights on how Justice Steven's leaving will affect the role played by...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 12, 2010
Friday, April 09, 2010
Courts - Fascinating account of alleged ticket hacking
Mary Pat Flaherty of the Washington Post has a lengthy account of how, according to federal investigators, "a ring of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, April 09, 2010
Courts - "The plain terms of the statute prohibit Sec. 1927 sanctions from being imposed against a law firm."
That was the ruling of a federal judge in Nevada in the case of Montgomery v. eTreppid Technologies, LLC. From...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, April 09, 2010
Law - "Sex offender housing restrictions may lead to more crimes"
From the Chicago Tribune today, a story by Megan Twohey - some quotes:A Tribune review has found that the state's...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, April 09, 2010
Courts - "Regulatory failure? Blame the D.C. Circuit"
An interesting opinion piece today in the Washington Post, written by business columnist Steven Pearlstein. A sample:Unfortunately, it often takes...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, April 09, 2010
Courts - Justice Stevens to Step Down [Updated]
The WSJ Law Blog has some initial coverage. See this entry from from SCOTUSblog, by Lyle Denniston, headed "Stevens’ era...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, April 09, 2010
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Courts - Still more on: Chief Justice Roberts at Indy Law Tuesday
Two more takes on Justice Roberts' appearance yesterday:Tony Mauro at The Blog of Legal Times begins his entry:Chief Justice John...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 08, 2010
Courts - Updating: Anonymous commenter turns out to be judge's daughter
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, Cleveland's WKYC has a report that begins:Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold and her...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 08, 2010
Courts - More on: Chief Justice Roberts at Indy Law Tuesday
Coverage today of Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts appearance yesterday at Indiana University School of Law -...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 08, 2010
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Courts - "Supreme Court May Soon Lack Protestant Justices"
That is the headline to this story by Nina Totenberg today on NPR's Morning Edition. The lengthy (5min 23 sec,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Courts - Chief Justice Roberts at Indy Law today, not Thursday [Corrected]
From the Lafayette Journal Courier:Chief Justice John Roberts will be the third member of the U.S. Supreme Court to give...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Courts - "Why Chicago's Diane Wood Should Replace Justice Stevens"
NBC Chicago's entertaining political blog, Ward Room, has posted this entry today by Edward McCLelland...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Monday, April 05, 2010
Courts - Paying your annual attorney fee from your escrow account -- priceless!
The Legal Profession Blog had this entry April 2nd:From the Attorney e-Newsletter of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's Disciplinary Board's...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, April 05, 2010
Friday, April 02, 2010
Ind. Law - More on: "Rethinking Sex Offender Laws for Teenage Texting"
Updating this ILB entry from March 20, 2010, which notes that legislation with differentiated sexting language re juveniles, SEA 224,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, April 02, 2010
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Courts - More on "Lawyers Must Advise Clients on Deportation, Supreme Court Rules"
Prof. Douglas A. Berman of Sentencing Law and Policy has an interesting entry today on yesterday's SCOTUS ruling in Padilla....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, April 01, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Courts - "Lawyers Must Advise Clients on Deportation, Supreme Court Rules"
Tony Mauro has this report in The National Law Journal, His story begins:In a decision that one justice called "a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Courts - Reporting on "Cancer Patients Challenge the Patenting of a Gene"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, Ashby Jones of the WSJ Law Blog has an entry today compiling some of the reports....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Courts - "Fundraising for states' high-court races"
Indiana's appellate judges are appointed and subject to a yes/no retention ballot question every 10 years. But in many states,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Courts - We are the electric company and we are here to help you
The Courthouse News Service has a story today by Jamie Ross headed "'Smart Meters' Soak Customers, Class Claims." Some quotes:(CN)...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Court - "High court mulls speech rights and more"
Joan Biskupic of USA Today takes a comprehensive look at free-speech cases this term. Worth reading....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Courts - More on: "Illinois offers option to keep driving records clean for speeders"
Updating this March 21, 2010 ILB entry, the same Chicago Tribune reporters, Joe Mahr and Gerry Smith, write today:Most speeding...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Courts - Even more on "Cancer Patients Challenge the Patenting of a Gene"
Updating earlier ILB entries, GenomeWeb Daily News reports: "Federal Court Rules that Myriad's BRCA Patents are Invalid; Deems 'Isolated DNA'...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Courts - More on: Anonymous commenter turns out to be judge's daughter
Or maybe not. "More than 80 anonymous online comments originated from the personal Internet address of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, March 29, 2010
Courts - Challenging the new health care law
Indiana AG Zoeller has issued a press release today announcing that he will join with some other states in a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, March 29, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Courts - More on "Kentucky Appeals court upholds $6.1 million strip-search verdict against McDonald's"
Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 21, 2009, Andrew Wolfson reported yesterday in the Louisville Courier Journal, under the headline...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, March 27, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Courts - New DC gun laws tested under Heller standard [Updated again]
In Heller v. DC, in 2008, the SCOTUS reinterpreted the 2nd amendment and invalidated DC gun laws. Now the District...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, March 26, 2010
Courts - Anonymous commenter turns out to be judge's daughter
Following on this ILB entry March 22nd headed "Courts in a quandary over cheap shots by anonymous bloggers," and its...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, March 26, 2010
Courts - "After victory, conservatives mount new challenges to campaign finance limits"
Indiana attorney James Bopp is the focus of this story today in the Washington Post, reported by Tomoeh Murakami Tse,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, March 26, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Courts - "Kentucky High court rules on open records"
Reminiscent of the Indiana Court of Appeals decision in Knightstown Banner, LLC v. Town of Knightstown, et al. (see ILB...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 25, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Courts - 7th Circuit Judge could be Supreme Court contender
Again, as Judge Diane Wood was a strong contender for the opening last year. Today Joan Biskupic reports in USA...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Courts - Georgia joins Illinois in striking medical malpractice caps
On Feb. 4, 2010, the ILB had an entry headed "The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday found unconstitutional a state...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Courts - 3rd Circuit considers independent internet search by district court judge
In U.S. v. Bari (3/22/10), the 2nd Circuit panel writes: During the supervised release revocation hearing, Judge Chin noted that...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, March 22, 2010
Courts - "Courts in a quandary over cheap shots by anonymous bloggers"
The ILB has had a number of entries about anonymous posts, under the heading "Harsh Words Die Hard on Campus."...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, March 22, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Courts - "Illinois offers option to keep driving records clean for speeders"
That is the headline to this story today in the Chicago Tribune, reported by Joe Mahr and Gerry Smith:Illinois looks...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, March 21, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Courts - Yet more on: "Kentucky Supreme Court to hear online gambling case"
For background, start with this ILB entry from Nov. 3, 2009. Beth Musgrave reports today in the Lexington Herald-Leader: FRANKFORT...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, March 19, 2010
Courts - More on: Attorneys who provide bankruptcy assistance are debt-relief agencies
Updating this ILB entry from March 8, 2010 on the SCOTUS ruling in Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A. v. United...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Courts - 3rd Circuit declines to address whether "sexting" was protected by free speech law
Updating this ILB entry from March 27, 2009, which was headed "Students Sue Prosecutor in Cellphone Photos Case," Nathan Gorenstein...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Courts - Articles on other states' online court records
"Tennessee lags behind with online court records" is the headline to this March 16, 2010 AP story from the Blount...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Courts - Wonderful website of NBC's "court artist"
The blog of Art Lien, court artist for NBC News. Its name, CourtArtist.com, "going where cameras cannot."...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Courts - More on: "Judiciary Approves PACER Innovations To Enhance Public Access "
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, the Law Librarian Blog notes today its opinion that:[T]he most noteworthy development is the the Conference's...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Courts - "Judiciary Approves PACER Innovations To Enhance Public Access "
A news release today from the Judicial Conference of the United States:March 16, 2010 — The Judicial Conference of the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Courts - "Key New York Suit Calls Public Defender Programs Inadequate"
That is the headline to this story today in the NY Times, reported by William Glaberson. It begins:A class-action suit...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Courts - "The Second Circuit held Friday that a ban on the use of nicknames like "Heavy Hitters" or client testimonials about pending cases violates the First Amendment."
A New York attorney has successfuuly challenged the New York rules on lawyer advertising. Here are some quotes from a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, March 13, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Courts - Still more on "Test Case Linking Vaccines and Autism Reaches Federal Court"
Updating this ILB entry from June 10, 2007, the LA Times reports today, in a story by Thomas H. Maugh...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, March 12, 2010
Courts - "3rd Circuit Asked to Clarify Student Internet Speech Cases"
Read this in conjunction with yesterday's ILB entry, "School sued for punishing teens over MySpace pix." Shannon P. Duffy of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Courts - More on "Three lawsuits may change how NCAA operates"
Updating this Feb. 13, 2010 ILB entry, Katie Thoas of the NY Times reports today:Eleven former college football and basketball...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 11, 2010
Monday, March 08, 2010
Courts - Per settlement, Eli Lilly to add ethics watchdogs
John Russell has the story today in the Indianapolis Star. Some quotes:Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to add four...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, March 08, 2010
Courts - "Majestic Star mortgages may be invalid on Ind. casinos"
Another bankruptcy story this morning, this one via Bloomberg News:The creditors' committee for Majestic Star Casino LLC constructed a theory...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, March 08, 2010
Courts - Attorneys who provide bankruptcy assistance are debt-relief agencies; Action on petitions [Updated]
So ruled the SCOTUS today in Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A. v. United States. See details here via SCOTUSblog. See...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, March 08, 2010
Courts - Kentucky state mock trial match featured
Darla Carter of the Louisville Courier Journal has a nice story with photos on the the Kentucky High School Mock...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, March 08, 2010
Friday, March 05, 2010
Courts - Big vote-buying trial going on in Kentucky
Here is one of the earlier stories, reported Feb. 2, 2010 by Bill Estep of the Lexington Herald-Leader and headed...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, March 05, 2010
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Courts - SCOTUS "Petitions to Watch" of interest to Indiana
The "Petitions to Watch" feature from SCOTUSblog today includes several "of interest to Indiana" cases up for consideration at the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, March 04, 2010
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Courts - "New Orleans: Prospective Juror Sues Judge Over Intrusive Questionnaire"
From the Courthouse News Service today, this story by Sabrina Canfield. Some quotes:NEW ORLEANS (CN) - A Tulane graduate student...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Courts - " Supreme Court lets stand order to remove Ten Commandments monument" [Updated]
Warren Richey of the Christian Science Monitor reported March 1st:The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Monday, March 01, 2010
Courts - "Debate brewing over Supreme Court change to Miranda Rights"; and yet another Miranda case awaiting a decision
That is the headline to this story today by Troy Kehoe of WSBT TV, Mishawaka. The case he is writing...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, March 01, 2010
Courts - More on "SCOTUS to define reach of gun-control laws"
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 26th, more on tomorrow's oral argument. From today's Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:In Washington, D.C.,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, March 01, 2010
Courts - More on: Kentucky courthouse spending spree
On Feb. 18, 2010 the ILB posted this entry quoting a Louisville Courier Journal editorial about the courthouse building spending...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, March 01, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Courts - "Finding Untainted Jurors in the Age of the Internet"
An article today by Adam Liptak of the NY Times -- here are some quotes:It has been two decades since...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, February 28, 2010
Courts - "Kentucky Law firm, medical clinic accused of trading clients"
Reminiscent of this Aug. 9, 2009 ILB entry, quoting a story in the Gary Post Tribune headed "Chiropractor, attorney accused...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, February 28, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Courts - "SCOTUS to define reach of gun-control laws"
Updating these ILB entries from the fall of 2009 which were headed "The McDonald v. Chicago cert grant," Joan Biskupic...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Courts - "If the President’s priority were to appoint a brilliant, moderately liberal jurist in whose views he has confidence (because she has a track record), he would appoint 7th Circuit Judge Wood."
And many continue to hope he will. The quote used in the heading is from an entry by Supreme Court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, February 25, 2010
Courts - "Georgia Headed to Court Over Voter ID Law" [Updated]
Main Justice has this story dated Feb. 23, 2010, reported by Andrew Ramonas. Some quotes:The Voting Rights Act of 1965...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, February 25, 2010
Courts - SCOTUS loosens Miranda rule on questioning suspects without a lawyer
NPR's Nina Totenberg has the story here this monring. Some quotes:The U.S. Supreme Court has created a new rule governing...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Courts - SCOTUS denies review of Seymour-based Rose Acre Farms takings judgment
Updating previous ILB entries, Gabriel Nelson of the NY Times reported yesterday:The court also declined to review Rose Acre Farms...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Courts - "Families Say Schools Snoop in Their Homes With District-Issued Laptops & Webcams"
From Courthouse News, a Feb. 18th story by Jeff Schreiber thast begins: PHILADELPHIA (CN) - A federal class action claims...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Court - Kentucky courthouse spending spree hits bottom line
Indiana generally tries to preserve its existing courthouses. But, in Kentucky, according to this editorial in the Lexington Herald-Leader:When it...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, February 18, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Courts - More on: "Florida high school student files complaint after suspension for creating Facebook page critical of teacher"
Updating this ILB entry from December 10, 2008, Hannah Sampson of the AP is reporting today under the headline "Judge...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Courts - Kentucky Court of Appeals bans arbitration in divorce cases.
Indiana has a Family Law Arbitration Act, IC 34-57-5, passed in 2005. Kentucky apparently does not have a similar, specific...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, February 14, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Courts - Another "Kafkaesque" case involving a homeowner and a large bank
"Appeals court sides with Greenfield homeowner" was the heading to this Feb. 9th ILB entry about the case of Elliott...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, February 13, 2010
Courts - Update on "Three lawsuits may change how NCAA operates"
Updating this ILB entry from July 26, 2009, which quoted a story by Mark Alesia of the Indianapolis Star --...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Courts - "Bursting Pipes Lead to a Legal Battle "
A long story today in the NY Times, reported by Mary Williams Walsh, includes:State and local governments across the country...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, February 12, 2010
Courts - More on "Judge denies Star motion to unseal search warrants in Durham case"
Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 5, 2010, Jim Mackinnon of the Akron Ohio Beacon Journal has a story today...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, February 12, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Courts - Still more on "If Chicago cop caught you with LIDAR, go to court: Judge will dismiss it"
Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 9, 2009, the word from the Chicago Tribune today is: maybe not anymore. Megan...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, February 11, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Courts - More on "Michigan Faces Constitutional Case Over Cash-Strapped Public Defenders"
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 25, 2009, Dustin Grove reports today in the South Bend Tribune, under the headline...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Courts - Cheek swabs and the 4th amendment
On Jan. 11, 2010, the Indiana Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Arturo Garcia-Torres v. State of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Monday, February 08, 2010
Courts - "A former bank robber, Shon R. Hopwood emerged from more than a decade in federal prison as a skilled Supreme Court practitioner"
Adam Liptak of the NY Times has a pretty amazing story today. Here is a sample:Mr. Hopwood spent much of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, February 08, 2010
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Courts - "States Weigh Judicial Recusals: Some Judges, Businesses Oppose Restrictions on Cases Involving Campaign Contributors"
The Jan. 26, 2010 WSJ has a story by Nathan Koppel that began:More states are responding to a longstanding concern...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, February 07, 2010
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Courts - "Michigan appellate panel says state sex offender registration law does not apply to homeless"
See this Feb. 5, 2010 entry from the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, February 06, 2010
Courts - More on "The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday found unconstitutional a state law capping non-economic damages in medical-malpractice cases"
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 4, 2010, here is the NYT report on the decision. Here is the WSJ's...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, February 06, 2010
Friday, February 05, 2010
Courts - "Do 3rd Circuit Rulings Over Student Speech on MySpace Pages Contradict?"
An interesting article today by Shannon P. Duffy of The Legal Intelligencer begins:Lawyers were scratching their heads on Thursday over...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, February 05, 2010
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Courts - "The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday found unconstitutional a state law capping non-economic damages in medical-malpractice cases"
So reports the WSJ Law Blog this afternoon. Here is the Chicago Tribune coverage by Bruce Japsen, It begins:The Illinois...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, February 04, 2010
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Courts - Prop. 8 trial, banned from broadcast, re-enacted
The SCOTUS prohibited a California federal district court from broadcasting the "Prop. 8" trial. See a number of earlier ILB...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Court - Federal Judicial Conference develops juror instructions re electronic devices
Michael Cooney, an online news editor with Network World, writes today:If you think you're going to use your spanking new...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Courts - More on "More court cases to test campaign-finance limits"
Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 27, 2010, Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has a long article today...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Monday, February 01, 2010
Courts - "Wealthy Kentucky businessman's heirs fight wife over will"
This long story today in the Louisville Courier Journal, reported by Andrew Wolfson, is but another instance of the children...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, February 01, 2010
Courts - More on: Oral argument Nov. 3, 2009 before the SCOTUS in RICO case in which many states have an interest
The case is Hemi Group, LLC v. City of New York. As noted in this ILB entry from Nov. 3,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, February 01, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Courts - "Idea of company-as-person originated in late 19th century"
Martha C. White writes today in the Washington Post, in an article that begins:The Supreme Court's 5 to 4 decision...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, January 31, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Courts - "PACER: Picking Up the Pace?"
The ILB has posted a number of stories critical of PACER (the system that makes federal dockets and documents available...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Law - Dawn Johnsen hearing postponed
Dawn Johnsen was on the Senate Judiciary Committee schedule this morning, as part of her "do-over." I've just learned:Judiciary Committee...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Courts - "Studies Link Rare Ailment to Pain Pumps "
A very long story today in the sports section of the NY Times includes several Indiana-related references. Some quotes:When the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Courts - "More court cases to test campaign-finance limits"
Supplementing this ILB entry from Jan. 25, 2010, is this long story today by Fredreka Schouten of USA TODAY. Some...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Courts - Still more on: "Prosecutors in Manhattan — aware that the legal clock for bringing a case was running out — devised the novel strategy of indicting the rapist’s DNA"
This ILB entry from Nov. 5, 2009 included this quote from The Recorder:At issue in People v. Robinson is whether...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, January 25, 2010
Courts - "Indiana Crusader Bent on Dismantling Spending Rules"
David D. Kirkpatrick of the NY Times reports in a story on p. 1 of today's Times. It begins:WASHINGTON —...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, January 25, 2010
Courts - SCOTUS rules in Briscoe v. Virginia
Here is the full opinion:PER CURIAM. We vacate the judgment of the Supreme Court of Virginia and remand the case...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, January 25, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Courts - "Citizens United v. FEC in plain English"
From SCOTUSBlog - part of their "plain English" series, by Lisa McElroy....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, January 23, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Courts - "Judge Stevens bemoans changed court" in campaign finance dissent
That is the headline to a story today in USA Today by Joan Biskupic, that begins:WASHINGTON — When liberal Justice...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, January 22, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Courts - This is the day for Citizens United v. FEC [Updated]
The SCOTUS is holding "a non-argument session to announce one or more opinions" at 10:00 AM. Follow it live at...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Courts - No Citizens United v. FEC from the SCOTUS this week
Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 14th, SCOTUSBlog reports that no Citizens United decision will issue today....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Courts - "Court won't close shipping locks to keep out carp"
Updating this story from yesterday, and many earlier ILB entries about the Asian Carp threat, the NY Times had this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Courts - "Court won't close shipping locks to keep out carp"
So reports USA Today in this AP story, accompanied by a video labeled "Asian carp poisoning begins in an effort...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Environment - Asian carp plea denied by SCOTUS
Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSBlog reported here, shortly after 10:00 AM:The Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to order emergency measures sought...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Courts - "Mass. law on wine shipping unconstitutional"
Snipits from the AP story by Bob Salsberg:BOSTON -- A Massachusetts law that sharply restricts out-of-state winemakers from shipping their...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, January 18, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Courts - Broadcasting same-sex marriage trial, or not; Making anti-same-sex petition signers' names secret, or not
Broadcasting same-sex marriage trial, or not. Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 13th, Robert Barnes of the Washington Post had...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, January 16, 2010
Courts - "Something's Fishy at the High Court"
Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal explains how the case got to the Supreme Court so fast, in this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, January 16, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Courts - "Judge finds jury misconduct in taser death case" [Updated]
A federal district court decision today dealing with both tasers and juror misconduct (by accessing the internet). The AP has...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, January 14, 2010
Courts - More on both the Citizens United and Prop. 8 cases
The anticipated SCOTUS ruling re Citizens United v. FEC apparently will not issue this week. Yestersday Rick Hasen of Election...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, January 14, 2010
Courts - "Kentucky's judicial branch has joined a Web site promoting government transparency"
From the Lexington Herald-Leader:Gov. Steve Beshear and Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. announced Tuesday that Kentucky's Open Door Web...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, January 14, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Courts - More on: Dispute about televising Calif. federal same-sex marriage test may prove instead a test between authority of Judicial Conference and the federal Circuits [Updated] [Updated again]
Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, Jan. 12, 2010, Tony Mauro of The National Law Review has now written an...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Courts - Citizens United v. FEC decision today? No again.
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, the anticipated opinion in Citizens United v. FEC, the campaign finance case, was not issued today,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Courts - More on "Can sex offenders be held after serving criminal sentences?" [Updated]
Updating this ILB from yesterday, Adam Liptak's coverage today in the NY Times clears up some questions I had when...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Courts - Dispute about televising Calif. federal same-sex marriage test may prove instead a test between authority of Judicial Conference and the federal Circuits
So concludes Lyle Denniston today in this SCOTUSblog entry, headed "Court TV and judicial powers." [More] See this WSJ Law...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Courts - Citizens United v. FEC decision today? No.
An anticipated opinion in Citizens United v. FEC, the campaign finance case, was not issued today. See Sept. 6, 2009...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Courts - "Can sex offenders be held after serving criminal sentences?"
The SCOTUS is hearing arguments today in the case of U.S. v. Comstock (08-1224). See this How Appealing post for...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Courts - Briscoe v. Virginia oral argument this morning before SCOTUS
See the SCOTUSlaw blog entry here. See also Nina Totenberg's report this morning on NPR, headed "Criminal Prosecutors Pin Hopes...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, January 11, 2010
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Courts - "Reform of New York’s Small-Town Courts Stalls "
William Glaberrrson reports today in the NY Times:The most ambitious efforts in decades to reform New York State’s vast network...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, January 09, 2010
Courts - "Social networking among jurors is trying judges' patience"
Del Quentin Wilber reports today in the Washington Post in a long story that begins:Al Schuler, one of 12 jurors...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, January 09, 2010
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Courts - "Lawmakers quiz court on computer costs "
That is the headline from a story from the Dec. 8, 2009 Oklahoma Tulsa World. Some quotes from the report...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, January 07, 2010
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Courts - "DOJ Issues Discovery Guidance for Federal Prosecutors" [Updated]
This Blog of Legal Times entry is interesting, particularly as it includes links to the three DOJ memos. The entry...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Courts - "Rules vary on phones in courtrooms"
A lengthy AP story in the Omaha World-Herald, dated Jan. 4, 2010, reports:Cell phone policies vary. Rules are stricter in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Courts - Two federal stories today from the National Law Journal
"Slow Going in Senate for DOJ, Judicial Nominees: Only three circuit and nine district judges confirmed last year," is the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Monday, January 04, 2010
Courts - "Michigan Supreme Court direction reverses, divide remains"
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 6, 2009, that quoted a story that began "Can the back-biting, name-calling and playground-level...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, January 04, 2010
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Courts - More on "Judging the Federal Judges"
In this Dec. 14th entry, the ILB quoted from a Houston Chronicle story, reported by Lise Olsen, headed "Judging the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, January 02, 2010
Friday, January 01, 2010
Law - "What 'Could' Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2010?"
This is an interesting article that highlights how the protection of copyright has been expanded. Duke Law's Center for the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, January 01, 2010
Courts - "Federal Court Limits the Use of Tasers "
John Schwartz of the NY Times has this story today. Some quotes, read the entire article for some views on...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, January 01, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Courts - "FaceBook App Maker Hit With Data-Breach Class Action"; Indiana connection
David Kravets of Wired's Threat Level has this entry about a lawsuit filed in federal court in California that begins:RockYou,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 31, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Courts - "The Recession Begins Flooding Into the Courts "
William Glaberson's lengthy story in today's NY Times begins:New York State’s courts are closing the year with 4.7 million cases...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 28, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Courts - "Oversight of Pa. judges is wrapped in secrecy: The Judicial Conduct Board, created to protect citizens from errant judges, is criticized as doing just the opposite"
More fallout surrounding the two Luzerne County Pennsylvania judges who sent thousands of juveniles to detention centers in return for...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 27, 2009
Courts - More on "Justices Revisit Rule Requiring Lab Testimony"
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 20th, the Jan. 2010 issue the ABA Journal has an article by Mark Hensen...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Courts - More on: Ohio Supreme Court rules warrant required for cell phone searches
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 15th, some quotes from an editorial today in the NY Times:The Ohio Supreme Court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, December 26, 2009
Courts - "The World's District Attorney: Legendary prosecutor Robert Morgenthau"
A long piece in the opinion section of today's WSJ, that may be freely available (try here), begins:In the criminal...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, December 26, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
Courts - "Michigan Faces Constitutional Case Over Cash-Strapped Public Defenders"
Tresa Baldas reported Dec. 24th in The National Law Journal, in this story:Are Michigan's public defenders improperly pushing the poor...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 25, 2009
Courts - More on: Kentucky sex-offender case appealed to U.S. Supreme Court
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 24th, quoting a LCJ story that began:Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway is asking the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Courts - Kentucky sex-offender case appealed to U.S. Supreme Court
Updating this list of ILB entries, Andrew Wolfson reports today in the Louisville Courier Journal:Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway is...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 24, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Courts - More on "Doing time well past their prime"
That was the heading of the most recent of the ILB's list of entries on issues surrounding the Brooke Astor...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Courts - "Illinois Supreme Court delays medical malpractice damage cap ruling"
Bruce Japsen has this story in the Thursday, Dec. 17 issue of the Chicago Tribune. Some quotes:The Illinois Supreme Court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 20, 2009
Courts - "Justices Revisit Rule Requiring Lab Testimony"
Adam Liptak writes today in the Sunday NY Times, in a front-page story, about how:in an unusual move, the Supreme...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 20, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Courts - Ohio Supreme Court rules warrant required for cell phone searches [Updated]
Stephen Majors AP story begins:COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Police officers must obtain a search warrant before searching the contents of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Courts - "Kirkland Partner Slapped With Dismissal and Judge's Rebuke for Filing Misstep"
Understanding this "jurisdictional misstep" is above my pay grade, but it did happen in our circuit ... Some quotes from...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Courts - "Though the legal issue in the case concerns only text messaging in government workplaces, the Supreme Court’s decision may provide some hints about its attitude toward privacy in the Internet era more generally"
So writes Adam Liptak of the NY Times in this Dec. 14th article headed "Supreme Court Takes Texting Case." See...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Courts - "Attorneys and experts said court decisions have been "all over the map," offering little clarity to confused school administrators."
"For students, a right to be mean online? With schools meting out discipline for what they see as cyber-bullying, some...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 14, 2009
Courts - "SCOTUS will rule on privacy of text messages sent on employer-owned devices"
David G. Savage of the LA Times has a story today, updating his story from Dec. 12, 2009. Here is...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 14, 2009
Courts - "Terrific reporting on prosecutorial declinations and prosecutor elections"
That is the heading to this entry today in the Sentencing Law & Policy Blog. After reading the lengthy stories...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 14, 2009
Courts - "Judges confounded by jury's access to cyberspace" What about Indiana?
Andrea F. Sieg reported Sunday in the Baltimore Sun:It's TMI - too much information, in the language of the Internet,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 14, 2009
Courts - Federal judges in the news [Updated]
Two stories today on federal judges: "Federal Judges Push Back Against Recusal Proposals: Congress considers revising rules on judge disqualifications"...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 14, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Courts - "Louisville's Jewish Hospital quietly drops suit against lawyers"
The ILB had a number of entries in May of 2007 under the heading "Jewish Hospital sues lawyers who unsuccessfully...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, December 12, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Courts - "Kentucky Court will reconsider fetuses, drug use: Some maintain that it's a form of child abuse"
From a lengthy story dated Dec. 9th, by Andrew Wolfson in the Louisville Courier Journal:When Ina Cochran and her newborn...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 10, 2009
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Courts - More on: SCOTUS decides Alvarez asset-forfeiture challenge
Updating this ILB entry from yesterday on the SCOTUS decision yesterday in Alvarez v. Smith, Ilya Somin has some interesting...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Courts - "Man Alleges Casino Fueled His Record-Breaking, Yearlong Binge With Liquor and Painkillers"
ABC New's Lisa Fletcher, Jen Wlach and Sarah Netter has this lengthy story this morning on GMA. Some quotes:A Nebraska...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Courts - SCOTUS decides Alvarez asset-forfeiture challenge
The SCOTUS today issued an opinion in Alvarez v. Smith, the asset forfeiture case. Justice Breyer writes:We granted certiorari...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Monday, December 07, 2009
Courts - "Famous Miranda rights warning could get rewrite" [Updated]
Today the SCOTUS heard oral arguments in the case of Florida v. Powell (08-1175) - see the links and argument...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 07, 2009
Courts - "A Victim’s Daughter Takes the Cellphone Industry to Court "
That is the headline to this Dec. 6th NY Times story by Matt Richtel that begins:Questions about how much the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, December 07, 2009
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Courts - More on "New recusal rules for Mich. Supreme Court under fire"
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 1st, a column by Brian Dickerson of the Detroit Free Press today begins:Can the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 06, 2009
Courts - More on "Does the punishment fit the crime for child porn?"
Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 21st, see this entry today from the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 06, 2009
Courts - More on: James Bopp Jr. to represent newly elected Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice
Updating earlier ILB entries on Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, including this one from Nov. 26, 2008, Patrick Marley...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, December 06, 2009
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Courts - "Trial of Blogger Accused of Threatening 7th Circuit Judges Opens"
Just so you know, a trial with bizarre facts is taking place in Brooklyn. Today's New York Law Journal story...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 03, 2009
Courts - PACER's $0.08 a page rate adds up in a hurry
That is the conclusion from this WIRED story by Ryan Singel, headlined "DOJ Pays $4M a Year to Read Public...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, December 03, 2009
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Courts - More on "States Letting Lawyers Provide 'A La Carte' Menu of Legal Services"
Updating this ILB entry from January 4, 2007, the Dec. 1 ABA Journal had this item by Debra Cassens Weiss...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Courts - "Today is the first day of the so-called 'days are days' approach to calculating time" under the Federal Rules.
See Howard Bashman's discussion in How Appealing....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Courts - "New recusal rules for Mich. Supreme Court under fire"
Mark Hornbeck reports today in the Detroit News in a story that begins:Lansing -- New rules governing disqualification of justices...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Courts - "Doing time well past their prime"
From a column today in the Washington Post, written by Abigail Trafford:Ashen-faced was the way the press described Brooke Astor's...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Courts - Two bankruptcy cases before SCOTUS on Tuesday
Per the entry "This Week at the Court" from SCOTUSBlog today, two cases the ILB has been covering are sceduled...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 30, 2009
Courts - Continuing with: "Judges In Pa. Corruption Case Likely to Evade Civil Charges" Indiana case mentioned [Updated]
Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 23rd, David Post of The Volokh Conspiracy had an interesting post on Nov. 28th,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 30, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Courts - "When Prisoners Phone Home "
From an editorial today in the NY Times:New York State’s highest court has rejected the last vestiges of a lawsuit...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, November 28, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Courts - "State Courts at the Tipping Point "
That is the headline of a Nov. 24, 2009 editorial in the NY Times. Some quotes:State courts are not just...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, November 27, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Courts - "First Amendment No Shield for Debt Collectors Gone Bad, Alaska Supreme Court Says"
A brief article by Marcia Coyle of The Blog of Legal Times today begins:Debt collectors who use unfair or deceptive...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Courts - Illinois appellate court rejects "legitimate business interest" test
Here is the opinion, issued 9/23/09, Sunbelt Rentals v. Ehlers. Here is the write-up today in Chicago Law, with the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Courts - "NY Judge Blasts Bank's Foreclosure Conduct and Cancels Mortgage"
Vesselin Mitev reports in the New York Law Journal in a long story that begins:A lender's "unconscionable, vexatious and opprobrious"...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Courts - "GPS and Privacy Rights" [Updated]
From an editorial today in the NY Times:A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments last week about whether...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 23, 2009
Courts - "Standards for Juvenile Punishment "
Adam Liptak's weekly "Sidebar" column in the NY Times begins today:The law is made up of rules and standards. Here...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 23, 2009
Courts - Still more on: "Judges In Pa. Corruption Case Likely to Evade Civil Charges" Indiana case mentioned
Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 12th, Leo Strupczewski of The Legal Intelligencer reports today in a lengthy story -...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 23, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Courts - "If the lender can’t come forward with proof of ownership, and judges don’t look kindly on that, then borrowers may have a stronger hand to play in court and, apparently, may even be able to stay in their homes mortgage-free"
In conjunction with this Nov. 19th ILB entry, here is another recent mortgage ruling that turned on lack of documentation,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 22, 2009
Courts - "When, whether and how defendants should be informed about the collateral consequences of pleading or being found guilty"
Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this new article, dated Nov. 23rd and headed "Do Defendants Get Enough...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 22, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Courts - "Does the punishment fit the crime for child porn?" [Updated]
Thanks to the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog for the pointer to this story by Tracey Read, published Nov. 19th...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, November 21, 2009
Courts - "Kentucky Appeals court upholds $6.1 million strip-search verdict against McDonald's"
Updating this long list of earlier ILB entries, Andrew Wolfson reports in today's LCJ in a lengthy story:The Kentucky Court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, November 21, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Courts - Still more on the McDonald v. Chicago cert grant
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 1, 2009, Ashby Jones of the WSJ Law Blog had this entry yesterday headed...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, November 20, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Courts - Still more on: In Kansas, the Mortgage Machine Backfires; MERS issue raised in Indiana
This Oct. 10, 2009 ILB entry includes a quote from the Boston Globe from Oct. 9th (from a Globe story...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 19, 2009
Courts - "Justice Sotomayor adds celebrity to court"
The Washington Post on Nov. 17th had this lengthy story reported by Jesse J. Holland of the AP. Some quotes:WASHINGTON...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 19, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Courts - "Taking Aim at Student Muckrakers"
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 25, 2009, headed "Lake County Illinois prosecutors 'Turn Tables on Student Journalists'" (and the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Courts - "GOP Opposition Slows Obama's Judicial Nominees"
Nina Totenberg's report this morning on NPR's Morning Edition is available for listening or reading here. The Washington Post has...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Courts - "New Justice Sotomayor Emerges as Frequent -- and Tough -- Questioner"
So writes Tony Mauro in this article for The National Law Journal. A sample: As Sotomayor wraps up her second...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 16, 2009
Courts - "A showdown is set for Tuesday with Judge David Hamilton's nomination"
Here is a companion to the story posted here yesterday from The Hill. David G. Savage of the LA Tmes...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Courts - "Conservatives split over filibuster of Obama court pick"
That is the headline to this story by Alexander Bolton, reporting for The Hill. The long story begins:Leading conservative activists...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 15, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Courts - More on: Kentucky judge rejects mayoral candidate's motion to seal divorce files
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 28, 2009, Joseph Gerth of the Louisville Courier Journal reported yesterday in a story...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, November 14, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Courts - "Conservatives Oppose Judicial Nominee"
Kate Phillips writes this evening in "The Caucus," a NY Times blog, at the start of a lengthy analysis piece:Conservative...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 12, 2009
Court - More on: Lake County Illinois prosecutors "Turn Tables on Student Journalists "
Updating this ILB entry from Oct.25th, the story has taken an even stranger turn. "Chicago Judge Lambastes Sidley Lawyers Over...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 12, 2009
Courts - "Attorney sues over comments posted on Kentucky.com"
The ILB has had a number of entires on impacts of and access to anonymous posts and comments, the most...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 12, 2009
Courts - "I’m Innocent. Just Check My Status on Facebook"
That is the headline to this story by Damiano Beltrami of the NY Times who reports today on social network...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 12, 2009
Courts - More on: "Judges In Pa. Corruption Case Likely to Evade Civil Charges" Indiana case mentioned
The SCOTUS opinion in the Indiana case of Stump v. Sparkman is in the news again today. Here is the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Courts - "'I Believe' tag fails test in court Judge says S.C. religious plate based on discriminatory law"
The headline is from this story by Adam Parker today in the Charleston South Carolina Post & Courier. The ILB...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Courts - "NJ Supreme Court committee to look at what can be done to make e-discovery cost-effective and accessible to all"; "Evidence on Social Networking Sites"
For the first article, see this Nov. 10th article from the New Jersey Law Journal, which deals in the main...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Monday, November 09, 2009
Courts - Still more on Judge David Hamlton's nomination to 7th Circuit
Updating this ILB entry from earlier today, which quoted from the Baltimore Sun story today headed "Long wait may soon...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 09, 2009
Courts - More on "Justices Weigh Life in Prison for Youths Who Never Killed " [Updated]
Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, stories are now coming in re the oral arguments this morning in the two...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 09, 2009
Courts - More on Judge David Hamlton's nomination to 7th Circuit
Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 5, which included this quote from the Washington Post:WASHINGTON -- Ten months into Barack...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 09, 2009
Courts - More on "If Chicago cop caught you with LIDAR, go to court: Judge will dismiss it"
Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 6th, Megan Twohey of the Chicago Tribune reports today in a story headlined: "Speeding...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 09, 2009
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Courts - "Kentucky's troubled death-penalty system lets cases languish for decades"
Like the Gary Post Tribune, quoted in the entry below, the Louisville Courier Journal today has devoted a lot of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 08, 2009
Courts - "Justices Weigh Life in Prison for Youths Who Never Killed "
Adam Liptak reports today in the NY Times about tomorrow's upcoming oral argument before the SCOTUS in the case of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, November 08, 2009
Friday, November 06, 2009
Courts - "Comment decision in New Hampshire high court’s hands"
Adding against to the ILB's list of entries on impacts of and access to anonymous posts and comments, Ashley Smith...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, November 06, 2009
Courts - "Court blocks Illinois' parental notification law: State panel had cleared enforcement of law, but hours later a judge grants ACLU restraining order"
This NY Times story from Nov. 3rd, reported by Monica Davey and headed "Illinois Curb on Minors’ Abortions Nears ,"...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, November 06, 2009
Courts - "If Chicago cop caught you with LIDAR, go to court: Judge will dismiss it "
The Chicago Sun-Times column today, by Mark Brown, is headed: "How to beat a speeding ticket: If city cop caught...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, November 06, 2009
Courts - "Rethinking Prosecutorial Immunity"
The Supreme Court oral argument Nov. 4th in the case of Pottawattamie County v. McGhee, the subject of this ILB...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, November 06, 2009
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Courts - More on: "Prosecutors in Manhattan — aware that the legal clock for bringing a case was running out — devised the novel strategy of indicting the rapist’s DNA"
Updating this Oct. 19th ILB entry, this issue is now before the California Supreme Court, according to a story today...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 05, 2009
Courts - In Pennsylvania, "Women begin to dominate state appellate courts"
That is the headline to this story today, reported by Debra Erdley, in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Here is a quote...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 05, 2009
Courts - Sex offender laws before several courts
Nov. 2nd ILB entry discussed recent decisions of the Indiana and Kentucky Supreme Courts relating to the ex post facto...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 05, 2009
Courts - Update on Judge David Hamlton's nomination to 7th Circuit
A long analysis by Larry Margasak of the AP is published by the Washington Post today. Some quotes:WASHINGTON -- Ten...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, November 05, 2009
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Courts - Former Indiana University administrator and "non-traditional" law student argues before SCOTUS as a Meyer Brown associate [Updated again]
Here is the story, from the Chicago Law blog. It begins:Fourth-year associates at big law firms rarely find themselves making...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Courts - Still more on "Cancer Patients Challenge the Patenting of a Gene"
On May 13, 2009 the ILB posted an entry quoting from a NY Times story by John Schwartz about "a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Courts - "Flipping off Illinois judge gets homeless man new digs -- jail"
Carolyn Rusin reports in the Chicago Tribune:A homeless McHenry County man in trouble with the law will have a roof...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Courts - State of Indiana co-authors amicus brief in Melendez-Diaz challenge
From a press release issued yesterday:INDIANAPOLIS -- Following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that abruptly required crime-lab...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Courts - Oral argument today before the SCOTUS in RICO case in which many states have an interest
According to this entry today in SCOTUSBlog, the SCOTUS today is hearing the following case:1 p.m. – In Hemi Group,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Courts - More on: Louisville paper gets it wrong re Kentucky AG "advising" the Corrections Department not to follow a recent state Supreme Court ruling; Implications
Yesterday the Louisville Courier Journal, at the behest of the Kentucky Attorney General, published a correction in its printed paper...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Courts - Still more on: "Kentucky Supreme Court to hear online gambling case"
Updating this Oct. 23rd ILB entry, which quoted from a story on the oral argument that took place Oct. 22,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Monday, November 02, 2009
Courts - Kentucky Supreme Court won't suspend sex offender ruling
The AP is reporting:FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The Kentucky Supreme Court on Monday denied the state's request to suspend its recent...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 02, 2009
Courts - Louisville paper gets it wrong re Kentucky AG "advising" the Corrections Department not to follow a recent state Supreme Court ruling
The Louisville Courier Journal has pulled the editorial included in this ILB post from Oct. 31st. It has published a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, November 02, 2009
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Courts - Ky AG advises the Corrections Department not to follow a recent state Supreme Court ruling as he appeals it to SCOTUS [But see corrections below]
"State to appeal ruling limiting sex-offender law" is the headline to a story dated Oct. 29th in the Louisville Courier...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Courts - "Kansas Supreme Court hears arguments about caps on damages awarded to patient"
That is the headline to this story yesterday in the Kansas Lawrence Journal World. The subhead is "Case against Lawrence...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 30, 2009
Courts - "Judges In Pa. Corruption Case Likely to Evade Civil Charges" Indiana case mentioned
Remember the stories about the two Pennsylvania judges who "sent thousands of juveniles to detention centers in return for kickbacks"?...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Courts - Arizona Supreme Court holds that embedded metadata in an electronic public record is subject to disclosure
The case is David Lake v. City of Phoenix. The opinion of the Arizona Supreme Court begins:Arizona law provides that...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 29, 2009
Courts - More problems with elected justices and campaign money [Updated]
SCOTUSBlog's Thursday roundup puts it succinctly:The Wisconsin Supreme Court, by a vote of four to three, adopted rules allowing judges...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Courts - Kentucky judge rejects mayoral candidate's motion to seal divorce files
Andrew Wolfson reported yesterday in the Louisville Courier Journal:A judge Tuesday rejected a motion by Louisville mayoral candidate Jim King...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Courts - More on: "SCOTUS declines to set rule on drunk driving stops, letting stand a Virginia court ruling that police must actually see erratic driving – and not just rely on anonymous tips – to stop a suspected drunk driver"
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 21st, the Washington Post today has this editorial, headed "'One free swerve': The Supreme...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Courts - "In Astor Trial, a Lesson for Estate Lawyers "
In this long list of entries on the Brook Astor estate issues, the ILB has stated several times: "The Brooke...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 26, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Court - Lake County Illinois prosecutors "Turn Tables on Student Journalists "
Monica Davey has this long story in the Oct. 24 NY Times. It begins:EVANSTON, Ill. — For more than a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, October 25, 2009
Courts - "Most state judges in the US must retire in 70s"
Rachael LaCorte of the AP has this lengthy story today -- a few quotes:OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Chief Justice Gerry Alexander...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Courts - House Judiciary Committee to hold the first congressional hearing on Iqbal Oct. 27th
David Ingram reports in The National Law Journal:Ashcroft v. Iqbal, the 5-month-old U.S. Supreme Court decision that has become a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 24, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Courts - "Were hundreds of criminals in Maryland given the wrong sentences because lawyers messed up a basic work sheet?"
That is the headline to this Oct. 22, 2009 story in Slate, reported by Ray Fisman. It is a long...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 23, 2009
Courts - "Supreme Court of Kansas holds that a criminal defendant must have used actual force to justify a self-defense jury instruction"
Take a look at this entry just posted by How Appealing. See also this entry just posted at The Volokh...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 23, 2009
Courts - More on: "Kentucky Supreme Court to hear online gambling case"
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 21st, which includes links to a number of earlier entries, Stephene Steitzer of the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 23, 2009
Courts - Even more on: "SCOTUS rejects 7th Circuit ruling re Joseph Corcoran"
An editorial today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, headed "A proper reversal," concludes:Here is the legal issue: After Corcoran’s...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 23, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Courts - "SCOTUS declines to set rule on drunk driving stops, letting stand a Virginia court ruling that police must actually see erratic driving – and not just rely on anonymous tips – to stop a suspected drunk driver"
Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has the story here. It begins:The US Supreme Court has let stand a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Courts - "Kentucky Supreme Court to hear online gambling case"
Updating a long list of earlier entries, the most recent from Feb. 1st of this year, Stephenie Steitzer of the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Courts - More on "State of Washington federal judge shields signatures in gay-rights referendum"
The ILB entry from Sept. 13th includes this quote from the NYT:The case is the latest filed by a conservative...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Courts - "Alito troubled by concerns over court's Catholics"
Marrclaire Dale has this report in the Washington Post that begins:PHILADELPHIA -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito voiced frustration...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Courts - SCOTUS rejects 7th Circuit ruling re Joseph Corcoran [Updated]
This ILB entry from Dec. 31, 2008 summarizes a 2-1, 7th Circuit opinion in Joseph E. Corcoran v. Buss (ND...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Courts - "Sotomayor’s Gift of Gab Grabs Headlines Again"
Check it out - from the WSJ Law Blog - by Jennifer Forsyth...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Courts - More on "$6.4M fine in Ohio for illegal practice of law"
"Ohio High Court Hits Alleged Trust Mill With $6.4 Million Fine" is the title of this article by Karen Sloan...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 19, 2009
Courts - "Prosecutors in Manhattan — aware that the legal clock for bringing a case was running out — devised the novel strategy of indicting the rapist’s DNA"
"Indicting DNA Profiles Is Vital in Old Rape Cases" is the headline to this story today in the NY Times,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 19, 2009
Courts - More on: The Legacy of Justice John Paul Stevens
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 17th on C-SPAN's America & the Courts program devoted to Justice Stevens, today Joan...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 19, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Courts - "Advocates see NYC Astor case a win on financial abuse"
Jennifer Peltz of the AP reports today in the WAPO in a lengthy story that begins:NEW YORK -- To senior...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 17, 2009
Courts - The Legacy of Justice John Paul Stevens
That is the focus of tonight's edition of C-Span's America and the Courts. You can watch it tonight at 7:00...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Courts - "A List of Obama's Judicial Nominees"
Here is the Washington Post's complete list of who has been nominated and where their nominations stand. It supplements this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 16, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Courts - "NCAA Documents in Fraud Case Made Public by Florida State"
Another NCAA story, following on this Oct. 14th story in an unrelated matter. Today NY Times reporters Katie Thomas and...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 15, 2009
Courts - More on "the future of media in New Jersey "
The story about the defamation suit against the Bergen New Jersey Record, quoted in this long ILB entry from Oct....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Courts - "$6.4M fine in Ohio for illegal practice of law"
See this entry from How Appealing....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Courts - SCOTUS looks at asset-forfeiture hearings, in a review of a 7th Circuit opinion [Updated]
Jennifer Forsyth of the WSJ Law Blog has the report, including links to a story in today's WSJ, and...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Courts - "Justices grant rare, revealing interviews to C-SPAN"
Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal gives some examples today and then writes:These revealing vignettes from justices on a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Courts - A short course on Michigan criminal procedure; and what can go wrong in the reporting [Updated]
Written for Detroit Free Press reporters, Joe Grimm reports the highlights of a crash course in criminal procedure. Access it...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 12, 2009
Courts - "Restoring judicial restraint: Running roughshod over GOP precedents would only diminish court's moral authority"
That is the headline to an editorial in yesterday's Detroit Free Press. It begins:In the decade between 1998 and 2008,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 12, 2009
Courts - Making the case for elected judges
Tony Mauro of The Blog of Legal Times reports: Two Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices made the case for electing judges...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 12, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Courts - "NYC Astor trial shines light on jury-room strife"
This AP story by Jennifer Peltz takes a comprehensive look at the issue of jury tensions....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, October 11, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Courts - More on: In Kansas, the Mortgage Machine Backfires; MERS issue raised in Indiana
Supplementing this ILB entry from Sept. 27th is this story that appeared yesterday in the Boston Globe, reported by Jenifer...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, October 09, 2009
Courts - 2005 Bankruptcy law requirement to go before SCOTUS
It is the challenge to the "we are a debt relief agency" requirement of the 2005 revisions, familiar to bankruptcy...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 09, 2009
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Courts - "Florida pushes ahead with an all-digital courthouse"
A long and interesting article Oct. 5 in the Orlando Sentinel, reported by Aaron Deslatte. Some quotes:TALLAHASSEE - Florida courts...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Courts - Via Iqbal, the Supreme Court Slams the Door
That is the opinion of law prof Herman Schwarzt in this article published Sept. 30th in The Nation. A quote:In...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Courts - "Justices Decline to Hear Some 2,000 Cases "
Adam Liptak of the NY Times today details some of the cases refused cert yesterday by the SCOTUS. His column...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Courts - Still more on "Justices Asked to Weigh Free Speech vs. License Plates"
Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 14th, which discussed the likelihood of the 7th Circuit decision in Choose Life Illinois,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Courts - Still more on "Astor Trial (Finally!) Heads to the Jury"
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 4th, John Eligon and Matthew R. Warren of the NY Times report:The judge overseeing...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Monday, October 05, 2009
Courts - If possible, SCOTUS Blog gets even better
SCOTUSblog, which unofficially fills the role of "the law blog of record for the Supreme Court", had this post yesterday...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, October 05, 2009
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Courts - "Six Supreme Court justices, VP attend Red Mass"
USA Today has posted this AP story that begins:WASHINGTON (AP) — An American cardinal on Sunday issued a plea for...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, October 04, 2009
Courts - More on "Astor Trial (Finally!) Heads to the Jury"
That was the headline to this entry from Sept. 22nd. Nearly 10 days, last Friday, Oct. 1, John Eligon of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, October 04, 2009
Courts - "U.S. attorney vacancy no laughing matter: Lawyer’s cartoons don’t help him"
Andrew Wolfson of the Louisville Courier Journal reports today in a story that begins:Want to be a U.S. attorney in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, October 04, 2009
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Courts - More on: C-SPAN to focus on Supreme Court this week
Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, Hank Stuever of the Washington Post has reviewed the upcoming C-SPAN series. Some quotes:There...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 03, 2009
Courts - "The Propriety of Criticizing Judges"
"The Propriety of Criticizing Judges," a lengthy article by Joel Cohen and Katherine A. Helm, prepared as a special to...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, October 03, 2009
Friday, October 02, 2009
Courts - C-SPAN to focus on Supreme Court this week
Starting tonight. At 6:00 PM, a "Supreme Court Preview"::Tonight, watch a preview of the upcoming Supreme Court term, hosted by...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, October 02, 2009
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Courts - "We Are Devoting Too Many of Our Best Minds to’ Lawyering"
From the WSJ Law Blog today, this gem, from Justice Scalia and C-SPAN....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 01, 2009
Courts - Still more on the McDonald v. Chicago cert grant
Several of the stories I've read today indicate that McDonald v. Chicago is a different case than NRA v. Chicago....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 01, 2009
Courts - The new Supreme Court, 2009 - 2010
This USA Today story features a cool photo galley of all the justices - and each photo can be expanded...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 01, 2009
Courts - More on the McDonald v. Chicago cert grant
Updating yesterday's ILB entry headed "Courts - The SCOTUS has granted cert in a number of cases, including an Indiana...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, October 01, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Ind. Courts - More on: DOJ Files Lawsuit Against Indianapolis Law Firm to Enforce the Employment Rights of Indiana Army National Guardsman
Remember this story from March 16th? The DOJ put out this release:WASHINGTON, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Courts - The SCOTUS has granted cert in a number of cases, including an Indiana federal case
Includng three from the 7th Circuit, one on the right to bear arms and its application to ordinances prohibiting possession...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Courts - More on upcoming SCOTUS term
The WSJ Law Blog has this entry today, "Pre-Gaming the 2009-10 Term." From the WSJ itself today, a long article...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Courts - "The Case of the Plummeting Supreme Court Docket "
The NY Times' Adam Liptak's "Sidebar" column today begins:In the early 1980s, the Supreme Court decided more than 150 cases...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 28, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Courts - In Kansas, the Mortgage Machine Backfires; MERS issue raised in Indiana
This is a story about MERS (the Mortgage Electronic Registration System) and a Supreme Court decision in Kansas. We've had...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, September 27, 2009
Courts - "Judicial pay disparity drains talent from federal bench"
Carol J. Williams reports today in the LA Times:With seven children to care for and a caseload that quadrupled this...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, September 27, 2009
Courts - "The right of students across the country to speak their minds in blogs and text messages at stake"
Updating this entry from July 17, 2007, and this one from Feb. 20, 2009, today the Waterbury Connecticut American-Republican has...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, September 27, 2009
Courts - "High Court Justices to Take Up Lawyer Ethics, Errors: Six cases on the calendar will have direct consequences for the practice of law"
Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal reports in a story dated Sept. 28. The lengthy report begins:How lawyers do...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, September 27, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Courts - "How does the concept of plain view apply to the modern technology of a computer?"
This ILB entry from August 26th looked at the Ninth Circuit's new computer search and seizure decision in United States...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Courts - "MLB savior and judge Sotomayor to throw out ceremonial pitch" [More]
This story today in USA Today, complete with photo. From Joan Biskupic's story:WASHINGTON — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who grew up...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Courts - "A lawsuit seeking to identify a Gmail user who accidentally received confidential bank information must proceed in public" [Updated]
That's the headline to this long story by Thomas Claburn in Information Week that begins:A bank's effort to prevent the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Courts - "Astor Trial (Finally!) Heads to the Jury"
The ILB has had a number of entries on the Brooke Astor estate dispute and trial. Today Ashby Jones of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Courts - "Judicial Campaign Speech Case May Be Destined for Supreme Court: Wisconsin justice faces sanctions for ad that may have gone too far"
Marcia Coyle reports today in The National Law Journal - some quotes from the lengthy story:The challenger's ad in the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Courts - More on: Sotomayor not yet decided on cert pool
Updating this ILB entry from July 16th, Tony Mauro has another article on the practice today in The Blog of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Courts - More on "David Jason Stinson found not guilty in football player’s death"
Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 18th, Andrew Wolfson has a Louisville Courier Journal story today titled "Stinson’s acquittal poses...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, September 20, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Courts - "Plaintiffs Groups Mount Effort to Undo Supreme Court's 'Iqbal' Ruling"
Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal writes in a lengthy story dated Sept. 21st that begins:On May 18, the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, September 19, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Courts - "Massachusetts high court OK's use of secret GPS tracking devices"
Adding to the growing list of ILB entries on various aspects of the use of GPS tracking devices, yesterday the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 18, 2009
Courts - "David Jason Stinson found not guilty in football player’s death:
The ILB has had a number of entries, under the heading "You don’t see newspapers fighting to open court proceedings...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 18, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Courts - "Is Sotomayor’s ‘Corporations Aren’t People’ Comment a Harbinger?"
This is really interesting. Ashby Jones has this entry today on the WSJ Law Blog. Here is a snippet:The issue...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 17, 2009
Courts - "Stolen marriage licenses lead to charges for Lexington man"
That is the headline to this story by Greg Kocher in the Lexington Herald-Leader. Some quotes: NICHOLASVILLE — Police arrested...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 17, 2009
Courts - "Nobody Puts Baby Sonia Sotomayor in a Corner"
From Above the Law, quoting the WAPO:Justice Sonia Sotomayor would have been the belle of the ball even if she...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Courts - "Bowman on the Supreme Court's Sentencing Jurisprudence"
Legal Theory Blog notes that "Frank O. Bowman III (University of Missouri School of Law) has posted Debacle: How the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Courts - More on "Justices Asked to Weigh Free Speech vs. License Plates"
Updating this ILB entry from April 27th, SCOTUSBlog today selects the 7th Circuit decision Choose Life Illinois, Incorporated, et al....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 14, 2009
Courts - "Lawsuit challenging Alaska judge choice tossed"; system similar to Indiana's
Lisa Demer reported Sept. 11th in the Anchorage Daily News Some quotes:A lawsuit challenging how Alaska chooses its judges was...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 14, 2009
Ind. Courts - Judge David Hamlton's still-pending nomination is focus of New Yorker story
Jeffrey Tobin has a very long article in the upcoming (Sept. 21st) issue of The New Yorker, titled "Bench Press:...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, September 14, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Courts - "State of Washington federal judge shields signatures in gay-rights referendum"
Jesse McKinley reports today in the NY Times in a story that includes the following:SAN FRANCISCO — Come November, Washington...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, September 13, 2009
Courts - "Federal judge rejects LCJ’s bid to block enforcement of city’s anti-litter ordinance"
Sean Rose reports in the Sept. 12th Louisville Courier Journal - some quotes:A federal judge has rejected The Courier-Journal's effort...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, September 13, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Courts - "7th Circuit Chief Judge Calls for Loosening of Sentencing Guidelines"
Lynne Marek has this report in The National Law Journal, dated Sept. 14th. It begins:Judge Frank Easterbrook urged the U.S....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, September 12, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Courts - "Blogging Assistant PD Accused of Revealing Secrets of Little-Disguised Clients"
Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal has this interesting story that begins:A former Illinois assistant public defender’s blog musings...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 11, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Courts - "Requests to Change Venues of Trials Rarely Move Judges"
From the WSJ today, a long story by Jennifer S. Forsyth and Lauren Eetter that begins:Last week, a federal court...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 10, 2009
Courts - Leahy Introduces Bill To Authorize Federal Judgeships
That from this press release from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Among the recommendations, 38 new permanent district...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Courts - Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission argued this morning [Updated again]
Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSBlog begins his analysis of today's oral argument in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission:If supporters of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Courts - "San Francisco Superior Court Lays Down Law on Jury Internet Use"
Kate Moser reports today in The Recorder:A new rule proposed by San Francisco Superior Court would remind potential jurors not...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Courts - Three federal court decisions in the news today
"State Discriminated Against Mentally Ill, Judge Rules" is the headline to this NY Times story by James Barron. Some quotes:New...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Courts - Houston lawyer asks "several local media outlets to provide the names of readers and listeners who commented about his client online"
Adding to the ILB's list of entries on impacts of and access to annonmyous posts and comments, some quotes from...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, September 06, 2009
Courts - C-SPAN focuses on the Supreme Court; also feature on campaign finance
C-SPAN is going all out - it has a new website, totally devoted to the SCOTUS. And it will have...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, September 06, 2009
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Courts - More on: SCOTUS will hear case next month, preceding the "First Monday in October"
Updating this ILB entry from August 30th, here are two very good stories on the important oral argument coming up...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Saturday, September 05, 2009
Friday, September 04, 2009
Courts - Relying on Indiana law, Illinois federal judge allows woman to sue bank for lax security after $26,000 stolen by hacker [Updated]
From a story by Kim Zetter of Wired:An Illinois district court has allowed a couple to sue their bank on...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 04, 2009
Courts - EEOC award of nearly $330,000 in damages to a former Marion County chief deputy coroner who claimed reverse discrimination
Jon Murray reported Sept. 2nd in a story that began:The city likely will appeal a federal agency's award of nearly...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 04, 2009
Ind. Gov't - "Petitions U.S. Supreme Court, Seeks Equitable Compensation for Indiana Funds Affected by Chrysler, LLC Bankruptcy"
Updating this earlier ILB entry, here is the press release of Indiana's Treasurer:INDIANAPOLIS (September 3, 2009) – Indiana State Treasurer...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 04, 2009
Courts - Even more on: "You don’t see newspapers fighting to open court proceedings the way they used to, and people are starting to notice"
That title is from a column by Adam Liptak of the NY Times, discussed in this ILB entry Sept. 1st,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 04, 2009
Ind. Gov't. - More on: "Indiana Funds May Not Be Done with Chrysler"
This June 24th ILB entry quoted a Business Week story that began: "Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock is contemplating yet another...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, September 04, 2009
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Courts - PACER to List “Sealed vs. Sealed” Cases
Supplementing recent ILB entries on PACER from Sept. 2, Aug. 26, and March 1, here is some information I just...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 03, 2009
Courts - "Pfizer Inc. to pay Indiana nearly $3.7 million in historic settlement"
From a NY Times story by Gardiner Harris headed "Pfizer Pays $2.3 Billion to Settle Marketing Case ":WASHINGTON — The...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, September 03, 2009
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Courts - Federal court officials recoil at RECAP
Recall this ILB entry from August 26th headed "Changes in store for PACER?" and this one from March 1 quoting...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Courts - Still more on: "You don’t see newspapers fighting to open court proceedings the way they used to, and people are starting to notice"
Updating this ILB entry from yesterday about judges closed the courtroom during jury selection -- the entry ended with a...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Courts - "D.C. Circuit Begins Mandatory Electronic Filing "
The Blog of Legal Times has posted this report by Mike Scarcella:The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Courts - More on: "You don’t see newspapers fighting to open court proceedings the way they used to, and people are starting to notice"
This ILB entry yesterday quoted from an article by Adam Liptak of the NY Times, which centered on: the case...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Courts - "A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents for Truth "
Scott Shane had this lengthy story August 29th in the NY Times. It began:WASHINGTON — In the spring of 2003,...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 31, 2009
Courts - "You don’t see newspapers fighting to open court proceedings the way they used to, and people are starting to notice"
That is the lede to this column today by Adam Liptak of the NY Times. Some quotes from this important...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Monday, August 31, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Courts - SCOTUS will hear case next month, preceding the "First Monday in October"
"Supreme Court to Revisit ‘Hillary’ Documentary" is the headline to this Adam Liptak story today in the NY Times. A...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, August 30, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Courts - "D.C. Circuit Tosses FCC Rule Capping Cable Subscribers"
Take a look at this just-posted entry from the Blog of Legal Times....Posted by Marcia Oddi on Friday, August 28, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Courts - changes in store for PACER?
The Blog of Legal Times reports this afternoon:The Administrative Office of the United States Courts announced Monday that they are...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Courts - "This is the most free-wheeling, 'look ma no hands' legal decision I've read in a long time" [Updated]
That is a quote from George Washington law prof Orin Kerr, who has just posted this entry to The Volokh...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Courts - More on: "Federal Judges Given Guidance on Web Sources"
Updating this ILB entry from August 23rd, a reader has sent me the document which, as the cited article stated:The...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Courts - "Kentucky court strikes down reference to God in state law"
Stephene Steitzer of the Louisville Courier Journal reports today in a story that begins:FRANKFORT, Ky. — A Franklin circuit judge...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Courts - One of the federal trial judges in the 7th Circuit is reportedly not taking new criminal cases
"U.S. judge Stadtmueller not taking new criminal cases" is the headline to this lengthy story by John Diedrich of the...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Courts - Tips on "Managing the electronic communication revolution in the Indiana courtroom"
Miriam Rozen of the Texas Lawyer reports today on three Texas judges and how they use social network sites to...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Courts - "Federal Judges Given Guidance on Web Sources"
Mary Pat Gallagher's story in the New Jersey Law Journal, dated August 21st, included these quotes:Judges, like the rest of...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, August 23, 2009
Ind. Courts - More on: Channel 6 finds public defender appointed upon request, with no effort at determining financial need
Updating this ILB entry from Thursday, an ILB reader send this August 22nd story from the Anchorage Daily News. The...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Sunday, August 23, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Courts - "3rd Circuit Appeal Challenges Judge's Outside Research in Bench Trial"; Where is Indiana on this?
Henry Gottlieb writes today in the New Jersey Law Journal:A federal appeals court has been asked to limit the right...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Courts - "After Settlement in Amtrak Case, Opinions Erased From Lexis and Westlaw" [Updated]
Shannon P. Duffy of The Legal Intelligencer reports today in a lengthy article. Here are some quotes:Ordinarily, the decision to...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Courts - "Judge rules blogger's identity must be revealed"; differing viewpoints
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press site has this brief story:A blogger lost his bid to keep his...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Courts - "Astor Trial Plods On, Trying the Patience of Many "
Adding to this long list of earlier Brooke Astor estate trial entries, this story, by A. G. Sultzberger and John...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Courts - More on "Two Kentucky diet-drug lawyers permanently disbarred"
Updating this Oct. 24, 2008 ILB entry, that headline wasn't the half of it. This story yesterday from the Lexington...Posted by Marcia Oddi on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Courts - "Va. Rushes To Address Ruling on Analysts: Drug-Case Demands Have Strained State Lab"
Still pending before the Indiana Supreme Court are two cases which may turn on the SCOTUS ruling June 25th in...Posted by Marcia Oddi on