Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
* Are bankers even more narcissistic than lawyers? Consider the evidence. [ Dealbreaker ] * No, Justice Scalia did not say he would have dissented in Brown v. Board of Education. [ Balkinization ] * Of course, "[t]he misrepresentation of Scalia's remarks went viral almost instantly, which is the way things go these days." [ Althouse ] * Patterico slaps around Scott Glover of the L.A. Times...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A panel concludes its investigation of the 9th Circuit's chief judge after he says he has stopped e-mailing his 'gag list.' No action is taken against him. Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, has apologized for having maintained an e-mail "gag list" in which he distributed crude jokes and other humorous material, according to an opinion made public Tuesday....
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
On Tuesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals hear oral arguments in Arizona Students for Life v. Crow. At issue is the extent to which the University may require a student group to show proof of insurance in order to display a pro-life exhibit or hand out literature from a table on campus. ASU attorneys say the university has put in place a less restrictive policy since the incident in question, but...
Of Arms and the Law (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Notice of Docket Activity The following transaction was entered on 09/24/2009 at 4:07:21 PM PDT and filed on 09/24/2009: Case Name: Nordyke, et al v. King, et al Case Number: 07-15763 Docket Text: Filed order (ALEX KOZINSKI): Submission...
Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
In her excellent interview with Chief Judge Alex Kozinski at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Solicitor General Elena Kagan poked gentle fun at the controversy surrounding what she should wear while arguing before the Supreme Court, as the first female Solicitor General. She quipped: "That this is the big question of the Washington Supreme Court bar probably tells you something about the...
Dave's World (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Philip Garrido may or may not have killed nine or ten "sex workers" buried in places to which he had access, but one fact is incontrovertible: he kidnapped and serially raped an eleven-year old girl [with the complicity of his wife?] 18 years ago. This crime in 1991 came three years after his release – and in the same town of South Lake Tahoe – that Garrido kidnapped Jaycee Lee...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
If you are already an online subscriber to the LAW.COM service you should be able to click on any of the links below, sign in, and access the full text of all articles listed. A subscription to LAW.COM is needed for online access to this service. 9th Circuit Sets Doctrine for Electronic Searches, Finds Steroids Case Search Unlawful The Recorder The Justice Department's aggressive steroids probe has...
Workplace Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
The Ninth Circuit, in USA v. Comprehensive Drug Testing--a 9-2 en banc decision authored by Judge Kozinski--has held that prosecutors improperly seized the results of a pilot baseball drug testing program to gauge the seriousness of steroid use. In 2003,...
Sports Law Blog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
The en banc Ninth Circuit today held that government investigators violated the Fourth Amendment when, during a raid on BALCO, they seized the names of 104 MLB players who tested positive for steroids, while acting on a warrant targeted at only ten players. (H/T: Jon Pessah ). The opinion is 63 pages long (I have not had a chance to read it yet); the majority is by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, one of...
Crime & Federalism (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
United States v. Rex Harrison: "Everyone could have done more to protect defendant’srights at trial." I want to read more. Don't you? The opinion is here. Before you read it, guess it you can tell how the case came out. It was a criminal case: Opinion by Chief Judge Kozinski; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Bybee See if...
Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
When the going gets tough, the tough get.... hoeing? On this morning's open thread regarding 3L recruiting, one commenter recommended that instead of applying for legal jobs, which can be a futile task in this economy, 3Ls should "[t]ry subsistence farming instead." Good idea! From the Associated Press : They are lawyers, factory workers, insurance adjusters, even an accountant and a dentist....
Crime & Federalism (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
In 2005, Alex Kozinski wrote a brilliant article in Legal Affairs on judicial ethics. He noted that current ethics laws are mostly trivial. A judge, e.g., must recuse himself when hearing a case involving a corporate client if the judge is a shareholder in the company. How many judges are actually going to corrupt their judgment over a few shares...
The Agitator (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
Andrew Sullivan finds an eloquent opinion from federal appeals court judge Alex Kozinski. The plaintiff was suing under federal civil rights statutes after a police officer stopped and arrested him, apparently in retaliation for a series of obscenities the plaintiff had earlier directed at the cop. Kozinski writes: Defendant relies heavily on the fact that Duran [...]
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
If you are already an online subscriber to the New Jersey Law Journal News Alert Service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed. Subscription required for online access: FRAT'S INSURER MUST COVER RIDER UNIV. HAZING-DEATH SUIT "Rider University and its primary insurer won a dispute last Tuesday, worth up to $1 million,...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
The SF Chron reported (in part): … In a decision that it labeled an admonishment, the panel told Kozinski that his conduct “created a public controversy that can reasonably be seen as having resulted in embarrassment to the institution of the federal judiciary.” But the panel said it saw no need to punish Kozinski because he has [...]
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