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Dubbed the "most dangerous woman in America" by opponents, Mary Harris (Mother) Jones was a radical labor organizer from the 1870s to the 1920s. Jones was born in Ireland in 1837 and moved to the Unites States as a young girl. ... conspiracy to commit murder. The governor later commuted her sentence in response to public outrage. In addition to her tireless labor activism, Jones also helped to organize the early Social Democratic Party and the Industrial Workers of the World. She was a fighter. She ...

... 1994) to fill the vacancy in the Western District of Washington created by Judge Coughenour's taking senior status. Superior Court Judge Jones nominated for federal judgeship, Seattle Times, March 20, 2007. Judge Jones graduated from the UW School of Law in 1975. He was a deputy prosecutor for King County, an assistant U.S. attorney, and an associate at Bogle & Gates before becoming a judge. For more biographical information, the press ...

Candy, Quakers, slavery and business ethics. They all come together in Lowell J. Satre, Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business (Ohio University Press, 2005), reviewed by Bernie D. Jones, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in the most recent issue of the Law and History Review. Jones finds the book "fascinating" and "invaluable." She writes: This study begins in the

Southern Free Women of Color in the Antebellum North: Race, Class, and a 'New Women's Legal History,' is a new article by Bernie D. Jones, UMass-Amherst Legal Studies and Suffolk Law School. It is forthcoming in the Akron Law Review. Here's the abstract: This article explores the possibilities of a "new women's legal history" as indicated by the intersections of race, gender and class as

Finishing a Friendly Argument: The Jury and the Historical Origins of Diversity Jurisdiction is a new article by Robert L. Jones, Northern Illinois University. It appears in the New York University Law Review (2007). Here's the abstract: This Article argues that diversity jurisdiction was intended to funnel politically significant litigation into the federal courts principally because

... . According to the Tennessean, "'[t]he fact that the NFL and the Titans did not punish Adam 'Pacman' Jones until after Tommy was paralyzed is a proximate cause of Tommy's injuries,' attorney Matthew Dushoff said before a news conference in ... at a strip joint. In the off season. One lawyer described the case against the Titans and the NFL as the equivilent of a Hail Mary pass. That is generous. The claim against the Titans and the NFL is the equivalent of a Hail Mary pass from an intoxicated blind ...

6/30/2008 5:00 PM By Marilyn Tennissen M/V Ms Mary Clint Guidry, a Louisiana resident, was working as a seaman aboard the M/V Ms Mary when he became injured. Guidry filed suit against C&G Boats Inc., C&G Marine Service Inc., MNM Boats Inc. and Freeport-McMoran ... a seaworthy vessel. The suit was filed on June 27 in Jefferson County District Court under the Jones Act. The Jones Act is a federal statute that, among other things, allows injured sailors to obtain damages from ...

... , IPKat, Ars Technica, Techdirt). Linking as trade mark infringement? Judge John Darrah of the Northern District of Illinois refused to dismiss Jones Day's trade mark claims that BlockShopper infringed their trade marks by referring to Jones Day in a headline and ... v Blockshopper.com (EFF, Techdirt, Law360, Out-Law, Technology & Marketing Law Blog). This took my interest because Jones Day's suggested stretching of trade mark law would greatly restrict speech and the flow of information on the ...

... a presentation at William & Mary School of Law on February 2 as a participant in the William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review's symposium. He spoke on the relevance of international environmental law for U.S. domestic climate change ... American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and has been asked to serve on the judging panel again in 2009. Jim Jones' paper entitled, "Severe Mental Illness in the Academy: A Secret Revealed" was listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for ...

... to remove him from the vessel after his insubordination. The 16th Judicial District Court Parish of St. Mary (Louisiana) granted the vessel owner summary judgment, dismissing the captain's claims. The captain appealed the judgment. OVERVIEW: Considering the evidence submitted in support of and in opposition to the vessel owner's motion for summary judgment on the Jones Act claim, nothing indicated that the verbal confrontations between the captain and deckhand placed the captain in reasonable ...