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... to a credible opinion that he was impaired. In other words, the arresting officer's opinion that he passed the field sobriety tests and Smith failed is a matter of credibility that Smith should have been able to make known to a jury. The Law Offices of Stephen Neyman has been defending OUI cases in Massachusetts for over twenty years. We fight to get evidentiary rulings that help our clients to secure wins after trial. If you have been charged with this crime call us at 617-263-6800 or contact ...

... / Trump Barry) as an Alito clerk for October Term 2009. Congratulations to Townsend and to Seton Hall, which has placed its first graduate into a SCOTUS clerkship. From a tipster: We just got ... (Yale 2008 / Kavanaugh) 2. James M. McDonald (UVA 2007 / Sutton) 3. Stephen Sachs (Yale 2007 / S. Williams) 4. Erik Zimmerman (Stanford 2007 / ... (Columbia 2007 / D. Ginsburg) 4. John Rappaport (Harvard 2006 / Reinhardt) Justice Stephen G. Breyer 1. Andrew Crespo (Harvard 2008 / Reinhardt) 2. Bessie Dewar ( ...

... Justice Joohn G. Roberts, Jr., and Justice Stephen G. Breyer had pursued at the oral argument. With Hall Street's attorney Carter G. Phillips ... limited review that FAA ordinarily provides. But, the C;hief Justice wondered, Hall Street perhaps could be seeking through "an ordinary contract action" to have the agreement ... bring it under the Federal Arbitration Act," Roberts commented. Phillips disagreed, saying Hall Street was simply trying to get the agreement enforced, and the Ninth Circuit had ...

... a former independent contractor of the Rose campaign; inaccurately representing her as a former Deputy Campaign Manager. Attorney Stephen Harrison sent a statement to Mr. Dovere prior to the story running which stated, "With regard to your questions ... claims were appropriately reported to the CFB as required." Yet, this person's disputed claims are now presented by City Hall News as if they are newsworthy revelations. "Simply, we see this effort for what it is," Rose states, "a transparent attempt ...

We have appreciated the contributions of Stephen Lubben this week. Stephen has joined Credit Slips as a guest blogger from his day job as the Daniel J. Moore Professor of Law at Seton Hall University. He brought us back to the "Why and Whether Delaware" debate, which is an important issue for corporate bankruptcy law. I am sure we'll see Stephen's contributions in our comments from time to time. He is a good friend of this blog. Thanks, Stephen.

... photo of his penis to her cell phone - have left a legal mess at the Hall of Justice that could take months to clean up. The claims against former sheriff' ... sex with Williams the night of his visit." McBride then took Rawlins down the hall to meet with sheriff's officials, who opened an internal investigation into her allegations. ... and demanded access to one of his informants. Prosecutors resisted, and Judge Stephen Graham tossed the case out of court in early February. Ebeyer represented himself ...

Mayor Stephen C. Acropolis of Brick Township, N.J., says we've "gone overboard" with the separation of church and state. He's going ahead with a plan to put a Nativity scene outside the town hall, no matter what the American Civil Liberties Union thinks. Disputes like this usually focus on what the courts have said and the [...]

In the course of recounting some media stupidity so dumb I don't even want to write about it, The Carpetbagger Report asks, I can't help but notice that Stephen Colbert's over-the-top parodies of right-wing blowhards is looking less and less like a parody all the time. As Kevin Drum put it, "Parody is going to become a lost art if the blowhard brigade keeps trying to top itself with stuff like this. I mean, what could I possibly write that was any more ridiculous than the thing itself?" I think ...

I'm just reading a Rolling Stone article from 2005 about Rahm Emanuel, who's going to be Obama's chief of staff. The quote is from Paul Begala. [There should be quote marks in the post title, but for some insane reason they were screwing up the format of the whole blog. Who knew Rahm Emanuel's balls were so powerful!] Friends and enemies agree that the key to Emanuel's success is his legendary intensity. There's the story about the time he sent a rotting fish to a pollster who had angered him. ...

... by the General Assembly in 1998 to eliminate racial bias in death-penalty cases. Under the statute, a judge is allowed to consider evidence of discrimination before a capital trial. "The ABA has supported this kind of legislation for many years," said Stephen Hanlon, a Washington, D.C. attorney and chair of the committee overseeing the ABA's review of states' death penalty systems. "We are hoping to learn what, if any, impact such legislation has on application of the death penalty." Although ...