Sunday, April 09, 2006

Welcome (permanently) Alex Acosta

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All reports ( here is Jay Weaver's Herald article from Saturday and Julie Kay has a piece in Monday's Daily Business Review) are th...
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Saturday, April 08, 2006

Congress may not burn the house to roast the pig.

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So says the 11th Circuit in US v. Williams, discussed below by Marc Seitles. Here is Carl Jones for law.com on the case .
Thursday, April 06, 2006

PROTECT ACT PROVISION DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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Today, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in United States v. Williams, No. 04-15128, handed down a signficant decision holding that the...
Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Big Money in Torture Case

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Judge Joan Lenard ordered that a retired Honduran military officer pay $47 million dollars to victims of torture, murder, and kidnapping. A...

More on Scalia

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I'm not sure why (perhaps I'm catching up from the 6 weeks of trial), but I can't get enough of the Scalia story . So here's...
Monday, April 03, 2006

Padilla cert denied

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The Supreme Court denied cert in Jose Padilla's case this morning, giving the green light to the criminal prosecution here in Miami. It...
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Booker in the Southern District

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Julie Kay has a thought provoking (and sobering) story today about sentencings in the Southern District after Booker . The premise of the ar...
Saturday, April 01, 2006

Scalia to reporters

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Here is Scalia's gesture to a reporter asking him about whether he could be impartial about church/state issues as he was leaving church...