It appears there may be an issue regarding free speech & bankruptcy lawyers…From the New York Times: The new free-speech battleground, he says, is whether the government can gag lawyers seeking to help their clients arrange their financial affairs. Click here to read the rest…it involves the Supreme Court: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/us/23bar.html?hpw Related posts:Bankruptcy Lawyers Should bankruptcy [...]
The Australian, June 8, 2009 WASHINGTON: Senior US Justice Department lawyers in 2005 sought to limit tough interrogation tactics against terror suspects but were overruled. James Comey, who was then the No2 official at the Justice Department, tried to convince Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales that some of the tactics were wrong and they would eventually damage [...]
Four Justice Department memos released yesterday approving harsh interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects provide the most comprehensive look so far at the methods considered and sometimes used in secret overseas prisons. Approved methods included refusing to allow detainees to sleep for 11 days, forced nudity, spraying detainees with 41-degree water, and confining detainees in small [...]
Mar 7th, 2009by -S- | Stumble it! The New York Times, however, presents Barack Obama’s racist screed in evasive terms: “attorney General Chided for Language on Race“.Obama’s Attorney General, a Black man in an exceptionally privileged position of employment following an exceptionally privileged education with a highly peppered, problematic ethical history, negated the the United [...]
On February 19, 2009, US District Judge Jed Rakoff ordered the US Attorney’s Office, SDNY, to turn over Grand Jury materials to the New York Times. This is reported to be the first time that a federal judge has issued such an order. Although I have written before that federal statues dealing with Grand Jury [...]
President Obama’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel fielded few questions about her abortion views and little opposition at a confirmation hearing yesterday. The nominee, Dawn Johnsen, is an Indiana University law professor who has been a critic of Bush administration terrorism policies and once served as legal counsel to the [...]
I was reading Michael Moss’s article in the New York Times a few moments ago, “Safety Net Missed Problems at Peanut Plant,” and I was struck by the quote below as I am about to leave for Washington DC in the morning: David Marshall’s wife testified before Congress in 2007 after his mother, Mora Lou [...]
Bomb blows up car of Arkansas State Medical Board chairman Dr. Trent Pierce West Palm Beach, FL (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–Breaking news: The Lexus SUV hybrid of Dr. Trent Pierce, chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board, exploded in his West Memphis residential driveway early this morning. The 54 year-old family practice doctor was airlifted to Regional Medical [...]
By far the best article I’ve read about the British healthcare system, appeared this morning… in the New York Times. It discussed the NHS’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the organization that rations pharmaceuticals in the UK (although you’ll rarely hear the word “ration” used). When NICE’s decisions are discussed in the [...]
If you’re a gambler, holding out for the jury award may not be so fruitful. A settlement offers better outcomes than going to trial says an empirical study reported on in the New York Times article brought to our attention by Richard J. Webb’s Healthcare ADR blog. The study, which is to be published in [...]
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