Tuesday, May 31, 2022

BONUS EPISODE OF FOR THE DEFENSE: BARRY POLLACK FOR RIC BLAKE (Chicken Antitrust case)

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     It's Bonus Episode time -- we've got former NACDL president  Barry Pollack  discussing the chicken antitrust trials, which have...
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Monday, May 30, 2022

What interview questions do you ask?

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Malcolm Gladwell asks whether you know how to drive a manual transmission : In Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross’s excellent new book, Talent: Ho...
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Friday, May 27, 2022

Better Late Than Never

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By Michael Caruso   Yesterday, at the behest of an 8th-grade civics class, Massachusetts lawmakers formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson a ...
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Monday, May 23, 2022

Big Tech and Guns

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  By John R. Byrne A couple of big decisions issued by the Eleventh Circuit yesterday, both authored by Judge Newson. In Netchoice, LLC et a...
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Judge Scola to take senior status in October 2023

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Judge Scola is the best. I’m truly happy for him but sad for all of us. He was always fair, smart, and thoughtful. The perfect judge.  At le...
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Sunday, May 22, 2022

Sentencings

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I've often written about how our criminal justice system coerces pleas.  One of the reasons is the trial tax.  If you go to trial and lo...
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Friday, May 20, 2022

"Is the Justice Department Incompetent?"

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 That's the title of this extensive article by New York Magazine .  Here's how it starts out: “I’m here to declare that we ar...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Changes

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By Michael Caruso The federal judiciary has  recognized  that diversity and inclusion are essential values in our legal system. "Divers...
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