Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Judge Mehta goes after defense lawyers in Oath Keepers' trial for asking for an extra table

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This Order isn't a good way to start trial... but the defense is right. Putting aside the normal advantages that the government gets --...
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Friday, January 27, 2023

RIP Judge Marcia Cooke

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Judge Cooke, 68, passed away today in Detroit surrounded by her family.  What a heartbreaking and huge loss. The first black woman federal j...
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Thursday, January 26, 2023

The Jersey Boys

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By Michael Caruso Yesterday, a friend alerted me to this article by an enterprising young reporter covering a Senate Judiciary Committee he...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Prosecutors pursuing Alec Baldwin for all the wrong reasons

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 That's the title of my latest article, this one for the Albuquerque Journal . Here's how it concludes: While it is true that the ri...
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Monday, January 23, 2023

11th Circuit trying to kill substantive due process

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Check out the en banc decision last week in Sosa v. Martin County, Florida , which held that there is no recourse for falsely arresting some...
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Friday, January 20, 2023

Who leaked Dobbs remains a mystery

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 By John R. Byrne "[I]nvestigators have been unable to determine at this time, using a preponderance of the evidence standard, the iden...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Major en banc decision in favor of criminal defendants

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The case is United States v. Dupree .  And it's a biggie. Judge Jill Pryor for the majority explains: This appeal requires us to conside...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Should an ex-con with law license be permitted to serve as a law clerk?

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Controversy on the Michigan Supreme Court.  From AboveTheLaw : Less than a week after making history for being Michigan’s first Black female...
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