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... defendant's actual representation. His investigative role was minor in relation to the private investigation undertaken for the accused by Black's PI's; Kuehne's objective investigation was limited temporally by the sole question presented; and ... , unlike Kuehne, were the only parties with an interest, financial or otherwise, in a dispositive [independent] conclusion by Kuehne. That Black and Weinberg emerged unscathed from the Magluta investigation and took away from that experience the need to ...

... Black Box Warning The Food and Drug Administration ordered the makers of Reglan, as well as generic manufacturers of the product, to add a Black Box Warning, the strongest warning available. Reglan and its generic counterparts are intended to treat gastroesophageal reflux, sometimes known as ... only been approved for short term use (4 to 12 weeks) and only after conservative treatment fails. (Black Box Warning Letter from FDA) If you or a loved one has been injured by Reglan or other prescription ...

On Being a Black Lawyer is the intriguing title of the blog launched this month by Yolanda Young, a lawyer, author, columnist and TV commentator. She began the blog on the very day a black lawyer was elected president of...

... to proceed. This week brought a major development in the case, as Daniel A. Schwartz reports at Connecticut Employment Law Blog. A group of black firefighters filed a motion to intervene, claiming their rights would be "irrevocably impaired" if they are not allowed to participate. Schwartz has the text of their motion and memorandum. The black firefighters are represented by employment lawyers Dennis R. Thompson and Christy B. Bishop of Thompson & Bishop in ...

... "racially neutral" justifications (length of hair etc). Here is what I remember from Con Law and prosecutor school; the State will survive a Batson challenge if the prosecutor can cite any reason for striking a juror besides "she's black". Anything, no matter how absurd, would suffice. Batson was effectively powerless, the Wade Phillips of constitutional protections. Fortunately, SCOTUS corrected this error in 2008 in Snyder vs. Louisiana, holding that they would no longer accept the inane BS ...

... on Saturday at 83. He became known simply as the kung fu judge for having earned the rank of 10th-degree black belt. How's that for order in the court!? In 1989, when Judge Phillips (Wilberforce University, Wilberforce Law School) drew the ire ... He termed that “a strong indication of concerted action,” something prohibited by baseball’s collective bargaining agreement. Roberts was fired again by management. But in 1990 his ruling was vindicated when the owners agreed to pay affected players $280 ...

... the same five-justice majority (with Justice Kennedy filing a separate concurring opinion), in an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, held that the consideration of race by school districts in assigning students to public schools in order to promote racial diversity ... of Education had held that government could not constitutionally assign black and white students to different schools in order to segregate them, Roberts had the audacity to cite Brown for the extraordinary proposition that government ...

... leave. But the fact that Barack Obama is the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, and that the two finalists for that prize were a black man and a white woman, are historical events of the highest importance. We should not allow ourselves to overlook the wonder of ... entries of note on the RFK assassination and, more particularly, on the hope and action "Bobby" inspired below: Robert F. Kennedy: What if He Had Lived, A Golden Age that Never Was by Blake Fleetwood in The Democratic Daily A ...

... the case of children receiving public assistance, are used to reimburse the government for benefits it has provided the children. Deadbroke Black fathers also make nonfinancial contributions-they often take care of their children in ways traditionally associated ... often blame themselves for their fathers' disappearance. Although, as Professor Dorothy Roberts has noted, policymakers have treated paternal absence "as a distinctly Black problem," recent studies have found that poor, nonresident Black ...

... the New Hampshire Union Leader even after primary season is over. Check out this great article: A Boston-based federal judge wore a black cocktail dress, fish-net stockings and high heels when police arrested him for drunk driving after he rear-ended a pickup truck last week, sources said. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Somma, 63, struck a plea deal with the city Wednesday in which he pleaded no contest to a first-offense misdemeanor driving while intoxicated ...