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NY Daily News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A diamond dealer who pulled off one of the most elaborate scams in the industry's history will be sprung from prison early under a new appellate court decision.
Jezebel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sonia Sotomayor just penned her first opinion on a case as a Supreme Court Justice. The Court's decision was unanimous, Sotomayor laid out the facts - but Clarence Thomas had to emerge from the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Ann Murphy (Gonzaga) passed along this celebrity tax tip: Jerry Springer and exotic dancer Chesty Love discussing the Tax Court's decision allowing her to depreciate the cost of her silicone breast implants in Hess v. Commissioner, T.C. Summ. Op. 1994-79 (May 4, 1994). From the opinion (citations omitted): At the...
Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Supreme Court heard a group of appeals on Monday that included convicted press baron Conrad Black, convicted Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, and Bruce Weyrauch, an Alaskan legislator facing a corruption charge. The cases have united a broad coalition against the Justice Department: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce joins hands with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, for instance....
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Brooklyn Daily Eagle by Dennis Holt Like Vladimir and Estragon , Dennis Holt is waiting, always waiting. A while back, I noted that there would be two major decisions made in November that would impact development in Brooklyn. These happened, but one of them was a decision not to make a decision. And there was a third decision that few knew was coming. One of the...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The Massachusetts Appeals Court has overturned a man's drug conviction, citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that said defendants have a constitutional right to cross-examine experts who prepare laboratory reports on illegal drugs and other evidence used at trials.
Gates of Vienna (Free subscription) | yesterday
Given my frustration with First Things magazine’s registration problems, I probably should wait until this essay comes out from behind the registration wall to tell you about it. However, my disgust at the British Court’s recent rulings against Jews trumps my aggravation at First Things clunky on line registration glitches . I have received the print edition for January 2010. Having...
One Old Vet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Court: Illegal immigrant entitled to benefits By NANCY HICKS / Lincoln Journal Star An illegal immigrant injured on the job is entitled to state worker compensation benefits, according to a Nebraska Court of Appeals decision released Tuesday. Odilon Visoso was injured May 9, 2006, at Cargill in Schuyler when a 100-pound slab of meat fell from a hook [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A decision by the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has upheld a Letter of Commitment between the Pennsylvania Building and Construction Trades Council and the state's Department of General Services (DGS) which permitted a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) aimed at assuring fair labor standards and adequate numbers of skilled workers for...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Buckeye has to keep its development-impact fees where they've been since 2005 through mid-2011.
AppleInsider (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
After a patent holder was awarded $21.7 million from Apple last week over technology related to cache memory, the Mac maker has officially appealed the court's decision.
Oregon Business Litigation (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The U.S. Supreme Court today held that a court's order compelling production of confidential information based on a waiver of the attorney-client privilege is not immediately appealable. As a result, a party seeking to protect privileged material in federal court...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
A Bench of justices extended the stay at the request of counsel Kamini Jaiswal who questioned the high court's decision to hear the case when the matter was already pending in the apex court.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday rejected a motion filed by former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic challenging the legitimacy of the court. Karadzic claimed that the UN Security Council overstepped its powers when it created the court in 1993. The tribunal summarily rejected this argument:Whether the UNSC legally established...
FIRE (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez , an appeal of a March 2009 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejecting a Christian student group's constitutional challenge of the University of California at Hastings Law School's nondiscrimination policy. The Ninth Circuit's ruling acknowledged that...
