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2 Sep 2:59 am
The three candidates for Manhattan District Attorney debated last night at John Jay College. Leslie Crocker Snyder, a veteran of New York's
toughest fights against crime in the 80s and 90s, pointed out that frontrunner Cyrus Vance was mostly living in Seattle during those years and portrayed herself as challenging the old
boy's network perpetuated by the outgoing, long-serving DA, Robert Morganthau. In response, Vance accused Snyder of changing her position on the death penalty in order to ...
4 Mar, 2008 12:47 pm
... 45: Lunch Room 610 12:45-1:00 Address by President Jeremy Travis, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Room 630 1:00-1:30 Professor Chris
Suggs, John Jay College of Criminal Justice: Introductory Remarks, Room 630 Professor Richard Weisberg, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law: Title of ... :15: Reception Sponsored by the Law and Literature Journal (published by the University of California Press for
the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law): Room 610 FOR MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING REGISTRATION FORM AND ...
18 Sep 2:49 am
... detention, interrogation, and military commissions, something occurred to me... With the bipartisan appointment of John Durham (first by
Mukasey and now by Holder) to investigate and prosecute low ... appalling. Names were not named in the conference, but names should be named to John Durham. He is permitted to "follow the facts wherever they lead," but if ... reach John Durham, just try the
Department of Justice main switchboard number at 202-514-2000. I am sure they will put you through. Benjamin Davis ...
8 Dec, 2008 7:11 am
... & Manuscripts) and Amy Braitsch (Assistant University Archivist), I processed a fascinating collection of legal papers belonging to the late John E. Wall. You can read the finding aid here, and you can view the papers at the Burns Library; here is the catalog record. In 1968, John E. Wall was an Assistant United States Attorney. He took part in prosecuting Dr. Benjamin Spock, the Rev.
William Sloane Coffin, Jr., and three others for encouraging Vietnam War draft resisters. This ...
19 Feb, 2008 6:43 am
... of him in Monaco with Massey's CEO. Starcher also called on a third member of the five-member court, Justice Brent Benjamin, to recuse
himself. Starcher cited the multimillion-dollar campaign bankrolled by Don Blankenship, Massey's president, chairman and chief executive, to help Benjamin get elected in 2004. As acting chief justice, Benjamin appointed Marion County Circuit Judge Fred Fox to
replace Starcher but did not otherwise ...
22 Feb, 2008 9:59 am
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 19th: The third West Virginia justice under fire in the Massey Energy case, Justice Brent Benjamin, announced
yesterday that he would not recuse himself. For details see this WSJ Law Blog entry headed "Justice Benjamin in Massey Energy: I'm Not Going
Anywhere."
9 Jul, 2008 6:57 pm
Over this past 4th of July weekend, after reading some Walt Whitman and watching some superb Portland fireworks, I also watched HBO's John
Adams (for about the 5th time--I love that miniseries!) This time through, however, I was struck by the scene where Benjamin Franklin and
John Adams edit Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence. I don't have the script, but the scene went something like this:
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19 Feb 12:13 am
A subcontractor who died when his safety boat capsized under the Shands Bridge Wednesday has been identified as Benjamin F. Heyward, 61, of
Jacksonville. A co-worker who suffered minor injuries in the accident has been identified as Lakia L. ... . Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the 11:30 a.m.
accident on the St. Johns River at the border of Clay and St. Johns counties, said Karen Parker, a spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Heyward and ...
11 Feb 2:43 pm
... Judicature, Court of Assize, and General Goal Delivery, on November 27, 1770, by adjournment, before justices Benjamin Lynde,
John Cushing, Peter Oliver, and Edmund Troweridge. The Law Library of Congress has copies of reports and transcripts ... later in 1870. Adams's
impassioned speech in defense of the soldiers resulted in their acquittal: it was reprinted in a character sketch by John Willard published in
1903. Details concerning these publications including the full text of three of these rare ...
30 Aug, 2007 6:48 am
Benjamin Aaron, a leading labor-law scholar, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 91. Here's his bio from UCLA Law, where he was a professor
emeritus, and today's NYT obituary. From 1960 to 1975, Aaron was ... work in the area of comparative labor law. "He wanted both management and workers to have a voice, and not just at
the bargaining table," John Trumpbour, research director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard School of Law, told the NYT.
Trumpbour added that Aaron was frustrated by ...
22 Mar, 2008 9:39 am
... the Blog) My husband and I were watching part II of the John Adams series on HBO last night -- the part where Benjamin Franklin gives Adams (Paul Giamatti) some OJT on ... way. "A man likes to make his own decisions," she says as she sends John off to the Continental Congress to seek men and arms (and help from the French) in Massachusetts ... from his last chapter which should whet your
appetite for more. Political theorist John Schaar wrote: "The future is not some place we are going, but one we are ...
2 Apr, 2008 7:02 am
The latest revelation of an OLC torture memo written by John Yoo (and released just as Jay Bybee left the building to become a federal appeals
court judge) has led to a new round of condemnations and discussion. (An early piece by Marty Lederman is on Balkinization; Stuart Benjamin on
the Volokh Conspiracy suggests that the Yoo memo offers an opportunity for a hard-right conservative to make a name for himself or herself by defending Yoo's ...
22 Jan, 2007 3:44 am
"Difference of Opinion: Can John Roberts make the justices chill out?" Benjamin Wittes has this essay
online today at the web site of The New Republic.
21 Apr, 2008 4:24 pm
Texas congressman Ron Paul is still officially in the presidential race, despite Arizona Republican John McCain winning enough delegates to
become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But with Paul's long shot bid for the White House ... supporters' rocky relationship with much of the of the Republican party,
this call for unity to support McCain is surprising. The group's site uses Benjamin Franklin's famous cartoon to rally support around McCain,
and has posted its first YouTube video:
27 Feb 2:20 am
The Missouri Senate recently confirmed Governor Jay Nixon's selection of John H. Huff to become the next Director of the Missouri Department of
Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration. Huff has sixteen years of insurance experience. For the ... he led GE Frankona's property claims teams in the Europe and
Asia. Prior to joining GE, Huff was an attorney in the insurance practice at Field, Gentry & Benjamin, P.C. in Kansas City. Click here to
view the official press release.
29 Sep 11:24 pm
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13 Feb 6:00 am
... with more recently arrived groups, including non-American blacks and Hispanics from the Caribbean and elsewhere. Chapter Three in John
Mollenkopf's A Phoenix in the Ashes provides a good description of this process of growth, decline, competition, and cooperation between New ... a group of Assembly members and state
senators led by Rubin Diaz, Jr., Carl Heastie, and Michael Benjamin, who charge that his nepotism and a general exclusion of all but Puerto
Ricans from party largesse forced them to ...
26 Mar, 2008 8:25 am
... Seminole War); William Henry Harrison (Indian Wars in the Northwest Territory, War of 1812); John Tyler (War of 1812); Zachary Taylor (War
of 1812, Second Seminole War, Mexican ... Hayes (Civil War); James Garfield (Civil War); Chester Arthur (Civil War); Benjamin Harrison (Civil
War); William McKinley (Civil War); Theodore Roosevelt (Spanish-American ... Harry Truman (World War I); Dwight Eisenhower (World War I, World War II); John Kennedy (World War II); Lyndon Johnson (World War II); Richard Nixon ...
21 Aug, 2008 8:10 am
... One day not long ago, a student from the nearby Science Skills Center High School named John Greene could be seen wandering among the
station's 16 pumps after school. John, ... & B music. "It's cool," Big Earl said in response to the boy's offer. John filled the tank with regular, and Big Earl handed him a fistful of change, nearly $ ... years. Vishal Khosla, the station's manager, calls the man
"Green" - no relation to the student John Greene - and says he likes having him around because he keeps an ...
8 Jan, 2008 11:26 am
Here are some profound words from our founding father Benjamin Franklin for the New Year. Tomas Jefferson is credited with writing the
Declaration of Independence, but Ben Franklin was its chief editor, he gave us the words "Pursuit of Happiness": "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let
each New Year find you a better man." ~ Benjamin Franklin
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