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18 Dec, 2006 6:48 am
... : Good morning, everybody. I'm joined here by Julie Myers, the Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement; by Deborah
Platt Majoras, the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; and by George Gaines, the County Attorney for Cache County, Utah. One ... new kinds of documents, but if it protects
Americans against terrorism or identity theft or a host of other problems, it's worth making the investment and getting the job done. So now I'm going to ask the Assistant
Secretary, Julie ...
23 May, 2008 7:58 am
Deborah, I too get the sense (from gay service members who have recently left the military) that "don't ask, don't tell" is generally
disfavored by a broad segment of the military community. And I would be delighted for ... action under the congressional authority to raise and support armies and make rules and
regulations for their governance is challenged." It's worth dwelling on the sex discrimination context here. (Race and national origin are not going to be as probative, because
the court will ...
27 May 11:07 am
Deborah Hellman sent me the following thoughts on the California Supreme Court's Prop 8 decision and Peter Westen, which I post below: "Peter
Westen famously argued that equality is an empty idea. The ... sense, no one has a right to "marriage." But what equality does demand is that the state must treat us as people of equal
worth. This command forbids the state from drawing distinctions among people in a way that is demeaning. Justice Moreno of the California Supreme Court explains in his opinion,
...
11 Jul, 2007 1:30 pm
Here's a quick follow-up on yesterday's Lawyer of the Day -- Senator David Vitter (R-LA), who recently confessed to having been a client of the escort service run by the so-called "D.C.
Madam," Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Check out this video, put together by the TPM crew. These were our favorite parts: 1. Vitter's daughter: "Way to
move it, Dad!" 2. Sen. Vitter: "In life's most important moments, we're not Republicans or Democrats. We're parents." Or, more accurately, philandering spouses. 3. The ...
24 Mar, 2008 3:14 am
Slate web-zine has started its own legal blog called Convictions. Recent bloggers on the site include Jack Balkin, Eric Posner, Deborah N.
Pearlstein and Diane Marie Amann.
10 Jun, 2007 7:12 pm
... you said, "Buy"--because if you'd invested $5,000 in Sol Price's idea in 1975 and held on to it, by 1990 you'd have had an investment worth four million dollars. Maybe you
missed your shot at Price Club*, but how can you make your business idea work that well? Are there any ... Idea Book: How to Make Money from Your Ideas for Movies, Music, Books,
Inventions, Business and Almost Anything Else! Authors: Bob Coleman & Deborah Neville Publisher: WW Norton Copyright: 1993; 1995 All Rights
Reserved
15 Jun, 2007 5:29 pm
... Clubs were roaring, and they haven't stopped yet. Sales for 1991 neared $7 billion. The average discount store sells annually about $175 worth of merchandise per square foot
of floor space. The average office products superstore does about $300. And the average Price Club does $1,000 ... How to Make Money from Your Ideas for Movies, Music, Books,
Inventions, Businesses and Almost Anything Else! Authors: Bob Coleman & Deborah Neville Publisher: WW Norton Copyright: 1993; 1995 All
Rights Reserved
3 Sep 12:37 pm
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization I was all set to zone out this vacation when we happened to stroll past an SUV featuring
one bumper sticker (among others) announcing: "Waterboarding: Keep it safe, legal and rare." ... "; and (6) the "insult (or facial) slap." Each comes with several pages of descriptions
of exactly what is allowed and not, all worth a read. (The 1,000 kcal/daily caloric intake restriction, for instance, can continue until the detainee has lost 10% of their body
...
3 Oct 7:06 am
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-Posted at Balkinization I feel as though I should start by apologizing from my mini-blogging hiatus. Nothing like
prepping a new course to distract one from the trials of law outside the classroom. Thanks to ... broad new detention authority in counterterrorism, the case has simply not been made
that more detention authority will yield any benefits worth the cost. (2) The second reason Ben wants new legislation is because he doesn't think there is enough clear law on the
...
13 Nov 1:28 pm
by Deborah Pearlstein Cross-posted at Balkinization Nothing like Friday afternoon with the President overseas for a little news: The men
accused of conspiring to commit the 9/11 attacks will be tried in federal court in New York City. Five ... operations themselves one of these days, two new Human Rights First reports on
U.S. detention operations in Afghanistan are certainly worth reading, available here and here. Hint: Not so well. For the moment, I'll stick with today's blockbuster prosecutions
...
6 Nov, 2007 8:35 am
... to the glut of blog content generally. We lack a sewage system in this digital river...the aggregate secretions of wetware clogging the collective zylem and phloem...How to purge
and flush? How to find the "pearl of great price"? What is worth reading..for that matter..what is worth an allocation of mindspace? Not unlike the daily challenge to the
creative force: which creative urgings are potent enough to nurture- which are fed...and which whither..what to consume? Tonight: Computers and Evil: ...
20 Mar, 2008 8:01 pm
... , so I feel somehow obliged to make it true. Trouble is, I'd always figured most lawyers should have way more questions than answers at such an early point in such a story. So what
could we possibly have to contribute? For what it's worth, here's what I got. According to the U.S. State Department website, the Passport Services division maintains U.S.
passport records for passports issued from 1925 to the present. "These records normally consist of applications for United States passports and ...
22 Apr, 2008 5:46 am
... community to justify its actions through the "reasonable factors other than age"defense. In this case, the Court will determine whether the burden of proving the "reasonableness" of
the challenged practice falls upon the employer or the employee - a decision worth almost $6 million dollars in this case. Metlife V. Glenn: The Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") provides a private cause of action for employees challenging wrongful denials of benefits under an employee ...
13 May, 2008 2:01 pm
... this shouldn't be the case, some of the most eloquent statements in the courtroom have come from a detainee. (Attorneys with my former employer Human Rights First are again blogging
from Gitmo during the trials, and their recent filings are well-worth a read.) I'll just end with this particular snippet from Mr. Hamdan. Hamdan, recall, won an extraordinary
victory in 2006, when the Supreme Court held the initial commission process unlawful under U.S. and international law. For a time after that, ...
17 Jun, 2008 8:09 pm
For what it's worth, Bill Kristol was on Fox News Sunday claiming that "very soon," Sens. McCain and Graham would introduce national security court legislation in the wake of
Boumediene. Kristol, of course, may be trying to create facts on the ground. All the same, Think Progress has a partial transcript and video. Here's the key passage. KRISTOL: [Habeas
for detainees] is totally uncharted waters. It's utterly unmanageable. And I think what it means is Congress has to step in now and specify, ...
24 Jun, 2008 4:11 pm
... was properly classified and how (under the federal law passed in 1980 for just this purpose) it should be properly redacted or otherwise addressed for trial. Dealing with classified
information can be tricky, but judges have nearly 30 years worth of experience doing just that. As for the nature of the evidence itself, I don't know anyone-military or
civilian-who knows exactly what to do with 6-year-old, four-witness-removed hearsay. (That's why the Army regulations in place in 2001, promulgated ...
17 Jan 7:17 am
... . This was like that, but even more so, as folks arrived from all parts of the country to participate in this historic weekend. And the pride on the faces of many of the African
Americans around me - including Congressman Lewis - was, in and of itself, worth the price of the ticket to fly here. After the bruising time we have experienced in the Bay Area
since the New Years morning shooting of Oscar Grant, it is wonderful to be surrounded by a sea of faces of all races and colors filled with the ...
17 Apr, 2008 9:15 am
... can do about these complaints, so the best thing a parent can do is try to maintain as cordial a relationship as possible with the other parent, and talk about these issues in a
nonconfrontational way. It will probably be hard, and may be impossible, but it is worth a try. Here is my favorite piece of advice to my clients who are involved in disputes
with the other parent: You will sacrifice anything for your kids, right? (right) If you need shoes, and your kids need shoes, who gets the shoes? ( ...
17 Jun 1:01 pm
... head comparison with Westlaw using a TheLaw.net suggested search (Federal Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, search for cases containing the phrase "alternate bid") found that
TheLaw.net had some advantages over Westlaw. Right on the search results page it shows you which case is most relevant, and how many times that case has been cited. Bottom line: not a
tool for an academic law library, as it would duplicate databases already available there, but definitely worth a look for the practicing bar.
5 Jun 3:14 am
... : the Web 2.0 Challenge -- an online course designed to give law librarians a working knowledge of Web 2.0 programs, sites, etc. Even when I was already familiar with some of the
technologies we discussed, I still found the information presented well worth the time -- and the chance to learn about other technologies I hadn't yet tried was invaluable. The
Web 2.0 Challenge was a true success, so CS-SIS will be repeating the program again this summer. Information on how you can participate is ...
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