Of Arms and the Law (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's the Academics for the Second Amendment amicus. And here's the Congressional amicus, signed by 58 Senators and 251 Congressmen, and filed by Paul Clement. As Solicitor General, in Heller Clement had argued for a lower standard of review; you...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Powattattamie v. McGhee, a case that will determine if prosecutors who manufacture evidence used to convict an innocent person should be susceptible to lawsuits. Reason Senior Editor Radley Balko analyzes the hearing, and finds former Bush Solicitor General Paul Clement essentially charging that the entire concept of prosecutoral immunity is...
Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
As we mentioned in our recent open thread on appellate work, Mayer Brown has one of the best appellate and Supreme Court practices in the country. The firm is also known for being rather democratic when distributing SCOTUS arguments; they tend to spread the argument wealth around, instead of funneling all the arguments to a single prominent advocate. Make that very democratic about doling out SCOTUS...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Wall Street Journal legal blogger Nathan Koppel claims Bush administration Solicitor General Paul Clement has begun "to embrace left-leaning causes." As evidence, he cites Clement's represenation of Curtis McGhee Jr. and Terry Harrington, who were wrongfully convicted of a 1977 murder in Iowa after police and prosecutors fabricated evidence against them. They spent 25 years in prison before...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The National Law Journal and the Wall Street Journal Law Blog note an apparent legal curiosity: Paul Clement, superstar head of King & Spaulding’s appellate group and Bush-administration solicitor general, now “flirts with liberalism” and has “embrace[d] left-leaning causes” to grow his practice. Is this another case of a conservative lawyer “growing” in...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Source: NLJ.com, October 26, 2009. Paul Clement Gets Real " In two high court cases this term, Paul Clement has taken on clients that are far from standard fare for a former solicitor general in the last Bush administration: a children's rights advocacy group and two men suing prosecutors for falsifying evidence." Blackwater lawyers seek military guard "Private defense lawyers want...
Crime & Federalism (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
In the Pottawattame County merits brief (here), Paul Clement is listed as counsel of record. Is Clement doing the oral argument? It will be much better for everyone if a former Solicitor General argues the case. Incidentally, the merits brief disposes of the argument that adequate alternative remedies against prosecutorial misconduct exist: Petitioners’ amici describe a host of other remedies...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 03/16/2009
GANGLAND lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson's boyfriend Lansley Simon had shown complete remorse for spray painting nine Versace handbags in a Melbourne store last year, repaying the store in full and sending a letter of apology, a Melbourne court has heard.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
FORMER underworld wife Roberta Williams has threatened to hurt gangland lawyer and new mother Zarah Garde-Wilson.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
THE Office of Public Prosecutions has been asked to review a police case against high-profile gangland lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 04/24/2007
AUSTRALIA'S highest court today rejected a crown application to increase the sentence given to high-profile Melbourne solicitor Zarah Garde-Wilson contempt of court.
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