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1 Jun 3:42 pm
... example, for Second Circuit judges to circulate their draft opinions to invite a robust exchange of views. Sotomayor, several former clerks complained, rankled her colleagues by
sending long memos that didn't distinguish between substantive and trivial points, with petty editing suggestions--fixing typos and the
like--rather than focusing on the core analytical issues. ... I haven't read enough of Sotomayor's opinions to have a confident sense of them, nor have I talked to enough of Sotomayor's
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4 May 1:26 am
... , for Second Circuit judges to circulate their draft opinions to invite a robust exchange of views. Sotomayor, several former clerks complained, rankled her colleagues by sending
long memos that didn't distinguish between substantive and trivial points, with petty editing suggestions--fixing typos and the like--rather
than focusing on the core analytical issues. Not that smart. That's what I hear in that passage. The classic putdown. (Click that link, dammit.) Who are these unnamed former clerks ...
12 Oct, 2007 2:28 pm
... obligation (see New York Constitution, Article 6, sec. 25), to a co-equal branch of government for petty and personal reasons. The ball of
judicial salaries is in the legislative "court." It is hoped that they won't takes that ball and go home without first approving appropriate judicial compensation. Jeffrey D. Lebowitz The author is a Queens County Supreme Court justice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCA
Not Proper Party In Judges' ...
23 Aug, 2007 12:12 pm
... debate in the State of Louisiana. NUMBER FIVE WORST PROSECUTOR IN THE COUNTRY: THE WINNER IS ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY JEFFREY AUERHAHN
Jeffrey Auerhahn - best known for putting New England mobster Vincent "Animal" Ferrara behind bars in the early 1990s. ... secured McDade a
spot on our list. Furthermore, violating federal child pornography laws and attempting to hide behind a petty state disclosure law should also
provide sufficient grounds to have McDade removed from office, disbarred, and possibly ...
23 Sep, 2007 8:35 pm
... about Justice Jackson's idealistic prose: "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word ... cover of
the book jacket -- where there aren't any words at all, just a big picture of the smiling Jeffrey Toobin -- he's wearing rimless glasses.
Meaningful! (And aren't steel-framed aviator glasses in style right ...
20 May 2:25 am
Jeffrey Rosen has published a glowing review of Judge Diane Wood, a person rumored to be on the "short list" of candidates for a position on
the Supreme Court. Recently, Rosen wrote an extremely negative review of Judge Sonia Sotomayor ... with the reviewers he quotes regarding Wood, the comments seem like the product of
normal investigative reporting, rather than petty gossip (as his analysis of Sotomayor sounds). It is unclear why Rosen failed to solicit and
publish positive commentary surrounding ...
3 Sep, 2006 6:08 pm
... the form and substance of executive pay (as Matt and those other zany folks like Christopher Cox and Jeffrey Gordon would argue) but also
because the manipulation may reflect a culture of noncompliance. A company that is willing to ... tax shelters that have some slim chance of success in the courts and are worth a lot of
money to the company. We're talking about petty noncompliance, picking up nickels in front of bulldozers just because you think you deserve
that extra nickel. As an outsider, I ...
24 Jan, 2007 4:37 am
... is by Tom Anderson and is publishing by Summersdale Publishing. When Tom Curren first rode the right hand point break at Jeffrey's Bay in
South Africa, the world watched in awe. For the author it symbolised everything that was going on at the time. The ... and transformed itself in his imagination. Not only did it
represent events half way across the world. It started to symbolise the ending of the petty tyrannies which he faced each day at his local
school in South Wales. As the years went by, the ...
26 Feb, 2007 9:39 am
... 'Riding the Magic Carpet' by Tom Anderson (Summersdale Publishing) When Tom Curren first rode the right hand point break at Jeffrey's Bay
in South Africa, the world watched in awe. For the author it symbolised everything that was going on at the time. The ... transformed itself in his imagination. Not only did it
represent events half way across the world. It started to symbolise the ending of the petty tyrannies which he faced each day at his local
school in South Wales. As the years went by, the ...
6 Jun, 2007 3:15 am
... Foods is allowed to devour Wild Oats, it will mean higher prices, reduced quality, and fewer choices for consumers,'' Jeffrey Schmidt,
director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, said in a statement. ``That is a deal consumers should not be required to swallow.'' ... FTC action is a pure political move to chill the
overheated merger market. Maybe so, but that's sure a petty reason to deny a relatively small group of shareholders an opportunity to realize
some increasingly rare equity upside in the ...
7 Sep, 2007 5:16 pm
... , for anyone who has not crumbled into dust, or evolved into some other type of lifeform that is above our petty human concepts of
"justice," before actually reaching the end of the document. Each and every page, of course, is deeply ... (a)(7)(B), which itself is eleven pages long. In that motion, O'Melveny says
that the case of their client (referred to as "appellant Jeffrey Skilling ('Skilling')" just in case you forget which "Skilling" they're
talking about) are sufficiently "extraordinary and ...
8 Sep, 2007 8:54 am
I commend to you Jeffrey's Rosen's article in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, which describes the experiences of former University of
Chicago Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith in the Bush Justice Department. ... because it is essential that we understand the inner workings of our government when it is
constitutionally dysfunctional, and also, I confess, in the rather petty spirit of "See, I told you so!" Second, it provides critical insight
into the behavior of a public official (Goldsmith) ...
2 Oct, 2007 2:41 am
Jeffrey Toobin's The Nine accomplishes something that did not seem possible: he's written a sort of thriller about the Supreme Court. The
Court's decisions, Toobin shows, are the products of the justices' personalities, ... and of their reactions to surrounding events. This is constitutional law in the making, but with
real people and real life. There is pettiness, hubris, despair, pride, idealism, hope, and striving. Inside accounts of the Supreme Court are no longer shocking. And the broad
outline ...
3 Oct, 2007 10:46 am
... interested in writing as writing. Here's a post I wrote back in January 2006 about the forthcoming Justice Thomas memoir: Jeffrey Rosen
writes about judicial memoirs, which are difficult to write, because they're either going to be bland -- like ... story without a trace of personal vanity. You have to be willing to
make the character that is you look foolish, mean-spirited, selfish, petty, and everything else. There is simply no way that Clinton or any
other political figure can follow this rule. ...
9 Apr, 2008 7:56 am
... , Arapahoe, Elbert and Lincoln counties, Chambers has a reputation for taking a hard line against criminals, from accused murderers to petty offenders. She has said she believes voters in her judicial district support the death penalty and her ... . Perez and inmate David Bueno have each been
charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of another inmate, Jeffrey Heird, at Limon in 2004. Chambers is seeking the death
penalty in both cases. In Monday's ruling, Lincoln County District Judge ...
24 Sep, 2008 7:07 pm
... convicted of having sex with a sheep will not have to register as a sex offender once he is released from prison, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled. In a decision released
Tuesday, the three-member panel declared that Jeffrey Scott Haynes, 45, of Battle Creek, a petty
criminal with a long history of forgery, home invasion and bad checks, will not have to register his name on the public statewide list of sexual ...
22 Apr 8:17 am
... that it does "not anticipate that any prolonged mental harm would result from the use of the waterboard." As psychologist Jeffrey Kaye
points out, the CIA and the Justice Department "ignored a wealth of other published information" that indicates ... . Obama's refusal to faithfully execute the law The Constitution
requires the President to enforce the law against both the petty thief who stole salmon from the market and the CIA agent who tortured or
abused a prisoner. Our law prohibits torture and ...
5 May 9:09 am
... Clerquette read much of it while breathing into a paper bag (narrowly avoiding a dramatic swoon) esteemed law professor Jeffrey Rosen
writes that Judge Sotomayor may not be quite ready for prime time. Although she gets high marks for sass ... complained, rankled her colleagues by sending long memos that didn't
distinguish between substantive and trivial points, with petty editing suggestions--fixing typos and the like--rather than focusing on the core
analytical issues. Clerquette loves a good diva ...
14 Sep 7:41 am
... death penalty and who spent 10 years in prison before his wrongful conviction was overturned by DNA evidence. Another was Jeffrey Deskovic
of Peekskill, who spent 16 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder and rape despite crime scene DNA ... Yorker magazine that took a wrecking ball to the entire case
against Willingham. The snitch, it turns out, was a drug-sodden petty criminal who later recanted his evidence. "The statute of limitations on
perjury has run on perjury, hasn't it ...
5 Oct 8:56 pm
... We could have been riding high, celebrating their first big victory but, instead, had to watch several contests be petty and spiteful,
ridiculing other chefs' dishes without regard to professionalism or reciprocity. But it got worse during the ... and knowledgeable. The man, on the other hand, just dished out a bunch
of garbage. The jerky judge in question, Jeffrey Steingarten, was snarky, contrary, and negative to the point of disgust. It was just
unbearable to watch. I finally asked my husband, " ...
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