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30 Mar 6:01 am
Even for folks far removed from New York's upper-crust society, the criminal trial of Brooke Astor's son and lawyer promises to bring its share of intriguing moments, what with
its allegations of greed, cruelty and filial deceit. The trial, which begins Monday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, spotlights the acts of Brooke Astor's son, Anthony
Marshall, and Astor's lawyer, Francis Morrissey, while Astor fell into the grip of Alzheimer's disease late ...
13 Aug, 2007 8:16 am
Brooke Astor, New York society's grand dame, died yesterday at the age of 105. We're perhaps a bit too young - or a bit too new to New York - to fully understand who Astor was or
what she meant to the city. For help with that, may we suggest the moving obituary in the NYT today. (For decades, writes the Times, "she had been known as the city's unofficial first
lady, one who moved effortlessly from the sumptuous apartments of Fifth Avenue to the ragged barrios of East Harlem, deploying her ...
9 Nov, 2007 7:18 am
... . He did. And he says Kevin Drum agrees with him. Oh, Brooks starts by the standard unsourced argument that Ronald Reagan really did not mean ... slur people like his
colleague Herbert as "heinous?" Oh and what of the evidence that Brooks ignores? Like this: Ronald Reagan on the subject of welfare. He cited a Chicago "Welfare ... and focused
on election participation). President Reagan also tried to allow Bob Jones University, a segregated Southern school, to reclaim federal tax
credits that had long ...
3 Aug, 2007 1:01 pm
Sad news today in the patent law world. Ernie Brooks, head of Brooks Kushman was killed yesterday in an automobile accident. Mr. Brooks litigated over 50 cases to
decision - including last year's case of z4 v. Microsoft. In z4, Mr. Brooks lead the trial team to a $133 million verdict for its tiny client. He was 64 years old. Law.com
article by John Bringardner [LINK] Law.com article by Leigh Jones on z4 victory [LINK] Brooks Kushman News
15 Apr, 2008 7:36 am
... approached witness stand, sat and pulled out small index card. Brooks Dooley introduced himself as representing Scruggs. [below I attempted to capture the substance of the
question. ... each of the following: . Q: You individually and Scruggs Law Firm are defendants in Jones, Funderberg… Q: Other defendants in
this case Nutt & McAlister, Don Barrett ... we have already heard, but it is as follows. Lackey was assigned to a case called Jones et al
v. Scruggs, and had signed an order sealing before ...
28 Nov, 2007 6:02 am
... "The Astor Estate Dispute: A Chronology." It includes a chronology of the dispute, with links to the actual documents - the last will and testament of Brooke Russell Astor,
and the three codicils. And for those of you who have access to the Wall Street Journal ($$$, ... 's Son Highlights Risks of Powers of Attorney; Requiring Regular Accounts," by Rachel
Emma Silverman and Ashby Jones. It begins: Sadly, Brooke Astor is making headlines again. But there may be a lesson in the indictment of
the late ...
6 Feb 10:10 pm
The University of Iowa announced yesterday that Carolyn Jones, an Iowa alum and the first female dean of the University of Iowa law school will
step down in the summer of 2010. That's a fair amount ... group. In case you're wondering, the finalists for the Iowa job in 2004 were (in addition to Carolyn Jones): Jeremy Paul (now dean at U Conn), Maureen O'Rourke (now dean at Boston University), Fred Yen, Morgan Cloud, Gary Simson (who served as dean at Case
from 2006-08), and Christina Brooks Whitman.
11 May, 2007 9:23 am
September 2005 - "Transquips" From Lynn Brooks of DeSoto, who is a certified shorthand reporter: Q. You must have been hurt in some event. What type of injury did you get? A.
Finger mashed. Q. Nothing you lost time from work from? A. (Indicating) Q. I'm sorry? A. Got a burn here. I didn't lose any time. It's frozen. Q. People were a lot tougher. That's a
two-year disability injury these days. Mr. Jones: I'll object to my own sidebar and continue.
27 Jun, 2007 1:12 am
September 2005 - "Transquips" From Lynn Brooks of DeSoto, who is a certified shorthand reporter: Q. You must have been hurt in some event. What type of injury did you get? A.
Finger mashed. Q. Nothing you lost time from work from? A. (Indicating) Q. I'm sorry? A. Got a burn here. I didn't lose any time. It's frozen. Q. People were a lot tougher. That's a
two-year disability injury these days. Mr. Jones: I'll object to my own sidebar and continue.
10 Jun, 2008 7:57 pm
... three central ways this exchange mischaracterizes the larger wiretapping debate: One: "I'm Going To Enforce The Law." It's unclear what Brooks is attempting to say here. In
fact, the immunity legislation pushed by McCain and Congressional Republicans is intended to let ... has also been made by The Hill, NPR, NBC, MSNBC, Fox, and by columnist Bob Novak. In
addition, Brooks' assertion of the program's popularity is wrong. According to repeated polling, a strong majority of Americans oppose both the ...
27 May, 2008 3:57 am
Conservative pundit David Brooks in today's New York Times muses over possible vice-presidential picks and comes out strongly for John McCain to select Minnesota Gov. Tim
Pawlenty-a Minnesota lawyer, so he has a rightful place on our blog. Brooks says, "Pawlenty, the governor of Minnesota, is one of the G.O.P.'s leading and most likable
modernizers. The son of a truck driver (his mother died when he was 16), he is the godfather of Sam's Club conservatism, the effort to reconnect the party to the ...
31 Mar 5:45 am
... -based eHarmony must make a "good-faith commitment" to promoting Compatible Partners. For this reason, dating site consultant Mark Brooks says Compatible Partners will be
watched closely. "This will be one of the most scrutinized products in Internet dating," said Brooks, who hasn't worked for EHarmony. "They will have to introduce an A1 product."
It's not a comfortable fit for eHarmony's founder, Neil Clark Warren, who based the original service - ...
22 Sep 7:49 am
This, frankly, is why people fear jury duty. The criminal trial of Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, and lawyer Francis Morrissey, is expected to get sent to the jury on
Tuesday after 19 weeks of courtroom testimony and lawyer talk. That's right, 19 weeks of talk over whether Marshall and Morrissey essentially swindled Astor out of millions during the
waning days of her life. Astor died in 2007 at the age of 105. Click here for our "walk-up" post on the eve of the trial's beginning, back in ...
3 Dec, 2007 4:06 pm
... has one that we got a kick out of. Writes Zaring: SUNY is chronically underfunded; does New York need another fourth tier law school? And I know Binghamton claims to be the flagship
institution and all that, but if you started the thing at Stony Brook, at least you could leverage the law and courts strength there. Still,
Zaring sends the school on its way on a hopeful note: But best of luck to you, Binghamton Law School. May you reverse the many strikes against you with something truly creative ...
6 Dec, 2007 4:11 pm
... for pro hac vice on behalf of John Keker, the San Francisco powerhouse defense lawyer whom Scruggs has tapped to fight his battles in both Alabama and Mississippi. Also joining
Keker in the Mississippi mission is a trio of young Keker & Van Nest legal beagles - Brook Dooley, Travis LeBlanc and Warren Braunig.
They're scheduled to make an appearance on Monday, according to Keker, who's everywhere these days. (Yes, this is the same Keker who showed up in the Barry Bonds story (here) and who
...
12 Mar 2:38 pm
... regard to a sentence in which you have between 20-30 years to be served, the sentence-length public-safety factor will dictate that you go to a medium-security facility. There are
three of those in the New York area: One in Otisville, N.Y., one in Ray Brook, N.Y., up near Lake Placid, and and one in southern New Jersey,
called Fairton. If you have more than 30 years to be served, typically you go to a federal penitentiary, a high-security prison. The two in northeast are both in Pennsylvania, ...
28 May 10:41 am
... of "family law" seems in its best light, sad, and in its worst, downright nasty and brutish. And on each of those fronts, we bring you a story from the news (and we've already
brought you this one). Sad: Amid the awful details of the Brooke Astor trial comes another tale of celebrity and dementia. This one involves Peter Falk, of Columbo fame.
According to this story in the LA Times, Falk, 81, is suffering from dementia. And his daughter and wife are embroiled in a fierce battle over control ...
2 Sep 7:16 am
... North Carolina, a woman in January won a $500,000 judgment against a medical spa over a blood infection she allegedly developed from a procedure to reduce fat in her stomach. Jill
Goldsmith, the managing partner of the Phoenix office of Bowman and Brooke, which is defending a handful of these suits, warned of an increase in these types of suit. "I believe
we're seeing the beginning of this industry being targeted," Goldsmith said. "Both mom-and-pops and chain companies have sprung up around the ...
2 Nov 7:37 am
... bit more divided. According to the poll, about half feel that the crime should be punished at least as harshly as drunk driving. Someone who is texting creates just as much of a
danger as someone behind the wheel who is inebriated, said Michael Brooks, 38, from Limerick, Pa., to the NYT. For insight into how that might play out - stiff punishments
(prison time?) for texting, especially when injury or death is involved - one might look across the pond, to Britain. Early last year, the British ...
13 Nov 7:38 am
... . "Given the magnitude of this crime, it's the only punishment that should even be considered," the officer said. John P. Galligan, the retired colonel hired to defend Maj. Hasan,
said he believed an officer delivered a charge sheet to the major Thursday at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, where he is being held under guard.
But Mr Galligan couldn't provide details, saying he wasn't there, hadn't been notified in advance and still hadn't seen the charges as of late ...
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