By ADAM LIPTAK The Supreme Court on Friday erased a lower-court ruling on perhaps the most fundamental national security question of all: Does the president have the power to order the indefinite military detention of legal residents of the United States? The court’s action, which had been urged by the Obama administration, wiped away one [...]
First of 8,000 tobacco lawsuit cases goes to jury deliberation in Florida Supreme Court. West Palm Beach, FL (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–The Associated Press (AP) reported late Thursday, a Florida Supreme Court jury began deliberations in the first of about 8,000 lawsuits against tobacco companies. The lawsuit, filed by toxic tort lawyers representing Elaine Hess the widow of [...]
WASHINGTON — In 1983, a young lawyer in the Reagan White House was hard at work on what he called in a memorandum “the campaign to amend or abolish the exclusionary rule”— the principle that evidence obtained by police misconduct cannot be used against a defendant. The Reagan administration’s attacks on the exclusionary rule — [...]
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is attempting to have her state’s Supreme Court remove Governor Rod Blagojevich from office by declaring him unfit to serve: The Illinois attorney general has filed a motion with the state’s highest court asking justices to remove scandal-plagued Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office. Lisa Madigan took the action Friday as [...]
Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders now admits he stood and called Attorney General Michael Mukasey a “tyrant” during a speech last week, but he says some time elapsed before the attorney general collapsed. Sanders told the Seattle Times that he spoke up after hearing Mukasey… More: continued here Tags: Attorney General, E, Supreme [...]
You gotta admit, this photo takes the canolis. Uhhhh, just in case Mike thinks he can sue Don Vito over this, I’ll remind him that Larry Flynt already proved in US Supreme Court that satire is protected free speech. Not that it ever stopped Mike before. If I get off light, perhaps he’ll just call [...]
When I woke up this morning, something seemed different. The sun was brighter, the birds were chirping louder than usual. I continued my morning routine and then the news hit me – Jack Thompson had been disbarred. Everyone likes violent games and Jack does nothing more than a disservice to those who enjoy the medium. [...]
I wonder if he was drunk when he made the statement? United Automobile Insurance general counsel Charles Grimsley agreed to a public reprimand for saying Miami-Dade judges “are being paid off” by plaintiffs attorneys. Grimsley pleaded guilty to two Florida Bar grievances April 25, and the Florida Supreme Court has approved the unconditional plea and [...]
MCLE certificate required in pleadings 3rd July 2008, 05:13 am On 3 June 2008, the Supreme Court promulgated a resolution in Bar Matter 1922 requiring all lawyers to indicate the number and date of issue of their MCLE certificate of compliance or exemption in pleadings (as well as motions) filed in courts and quasi-judicial bodies. MCLE stands [...]
The state attorney general won the right to hire contingent fee counsel — but lost the case on the merits. The Supreme Court of Rhode Island today held that the state attorney general acted properly and within his authority in hiring private counsel to help prosecute a public nuisance case on a contingent fee basis. [...]
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