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4 Aug, 2008 8:15 pm
... scholar and dedicated public servant since he first joined the staff of the Congressional Research Service in 1970. Dr. Fisher has
testified before Congress dozens of times; is frequently cited as an authority in Supreme Court briefs; and has ... on Jefferson: Jefferson and Executive Power by John Yoo, University
of California, Berkeley, School of Law This paper argues that Thomas Jefferson was not the opponent of presidential power commonly assumed
today. Jefferson is often thought to be a sharp ...
4 Jan, 2008 6:36 am
... litigation for SONY BMG -- "misspoke" when she testified in the jury trial in Capitol v. Thomas, as follows: "Gabriel asked Pariser if it
was okay if a consumer makes just ... one copy.'" Wired.com Link for Interview with Cary Sherman of the RIAA and Marc Fisher of the Washington
Post p2pnet.net quotes the "retraction" of Ms. Pariser's sworn ... tax deductible.-->freejammie.com or by check, payable to "Jammie Thomas
Defense Fund", and mailed to Jammie Thomas Defense Fund c/o Chestnut & Cambronne ...
9 Jan, 2008 3:37 am
... the Washington Post's "correction" of Marc Fisher's December 29th column is wrong, and Mr. Fisher's column correctly and accurately described the contents of the Atlantic v. Howell supplemental brief filed by the RIAA. "RIAA Still Thinks MP3s Are
... in UMG v. Lindor. Contributions are not tax deductible.-->freejammie.com or by check, payable to "Jammie Thomas Defense Fund", and
mailed to Jammie Thomas Defense Fund c/o Chestnut & Cambronne Suite 3700, 222 South Ninth Street Minneapolis, MN ...
11 May, 2007 11:43 am
... 2007… The intellectual property law firm Kenyon and Kenyon LLP announced today that its clients, Mattel, Inc. and Fisher-Price, Inc.
prevailed at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the first application of the obviousness standard that was broadened by the U ... at trial were Rich DeLucia, John Flock,
John Hutchins, and Jerry Canada, with Richard Mayer, Jeffrey Butler, Thomas Makin, Ronald Sigworth, Patrick Herman, and John McDaniel A copy of
the ruling can be found here. About Kenyon ...
30 Nov, 2006 11:03 am
... S., the course was perfect as a crash introduction to many of the themes and schools of thought in the contemporary American legal academy. Fisher was not teaching the course with Kennedy that year, but their super-thoughtful S.J.D student at the time, now ... of Women, Culture, and Society 635
(1983) 869 Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas, eds., "Introduction," Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that
Formed the Movement, The New Press, New York, 1996 at xiii-xxxii ...
19 Mar 9:42 am
... as well as the district court) on a 6-5. Who are the five dissenters? The civil libertarians, keen on the warrant requirement. Two Carter appointees -- the longstanding liberals
Reinhardt and Pregerson -- as well as two Clinton appointees, Thomas and Paez. Plus Chief Judge Kozinski, representing the libertarian crowd.
Who are the six in the majority? Four strong conservatives -- Judges O'Scannlain, Rymer, Bybee, and Randy Smith -- plus Judge Tallman (a reliably conservative Clinton appointee) ...
1 Nov, 2007 5:44 am
... keep the lawsuit alive, then the plaintiffs plan to call witnesses at a hearing Nov. 16. * * * The plaintiffs are asking Fisher to: n Void
the deadline extensions Gov. Mitch Daniels previously ordered that gave counties more time to ... of Indiana's property tax system, saying the plaintiffs must first pursue their claims
through state and local agencies. Attorney Jon Laramore told Judge Thomas Fisher that state law
requires residents to exhaust all administrative remedies -- such as appeals and ...
1 Aug, 2007 11:07 pm
... August. A complete list of tainted toys can be found here. In an interview with The Associated Press, David Allmark, general manager of Fisher-Price, said the problem was detected by an internal probe and reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The recall is particularly alarming
... -Price and parent company Mattel. If you purchased any of the recalled toys, you may have a legal claim. For further information, feel free to contact the Law Office of
Thomas Glenn Martin by clicking here.
26 Mar, 2008 1:31 pm
... into a farce." In a case closely watched by numerous states, defense lawyers and psychiatric experts, Fisher asked the justices to reverse
an Indiana ruling throwing out a defendant's attempted-murder conviction because he was denied ... clearly could be kept from representing himself. The Blog of Legal Times's report
includes this: When Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher suggested a test that would allow judges
to bar self-representation for those who "cannot communicate coherently with the ...
2 Jul, 2007 7:46 am
Dr. Thomas Fisher has a fascinating editorial in the WaPo entitled "I Treat the Patients Michael
Moore Forgot." Moore's movie Sicko focuses on the problems of the insured; Fisher works in an inner-city hospital primarily serving patients
who have no way of paying. Fisher points out ... A. By dumb luck, my patient wound up at the wrong hospital, and that made all the difference.
Fisher concludes, "Many Americans do get the Mercedes-Benz of health care. But given the scarcity of ...
28 Oct, 2008 11:39 am
... his credit, has taken a number of steps to make the courts statewide more open and accessible to citizens. Thomas Fisher, the sole judge of Indiana's Tax Court, is up for retention. Fisher is best known for his 1996 decision
throwing out Indiana's method for assessing real estate. Carr ... they are all uncontested. Circuit Court judges run on partisan ballots, and Republican incumbent Thomas Felts is unopposed. The Superior Court judges in Allen County run on a non-partisan basis.
31 Oct, 2008 1:35 pm
... 90.3 percent voted "yes" to Justice Theodore Boehm; 88.6 percent voted "yes" to Justice Brent Dickson. Court of Appeals Judge Carr Darden received 87.2 percent "yes" votes; Tax
Court Judge Thomas Fisher received 88 percent "yes" votes. For more information on judicial
retention, visit www.in.gov/judiciary/retention. Here is the ILB entry reporting the ISBA poll results. And by clicking the link in the upper right-hand corner of ...
10 Jan, 2008 12:29 pm
... are not very far away in Indiana," he said. Indiana's attorney, Thomas Fisher, said the law is
important to reduce voter fraud. But attorneys for neither side ... much fraud occurs or how many people have been denied a vote under the law. Fisher acknowledged under sharp questioning that some people might have a tougher time voting ... -fraud interest much better than the way you have chosen,"
he told Fisher. David G. Savage of the LA Times writes: WASHINGTON -- For a second time this week, a liberal ...
5 Dec, 2008 1:18 pm
... all." Weisman argued these words can be interpreted to call for a duty to provide an adequate education for every student. But Thomas
Fisher, arguing on behalf of the Indiana Attorney General's Office, said the plaintiffs shouldn't be able to challenge ... to 1851, calls for
the General Assembly to provide "a general and uniform system of common schools." Tom Fisher, a deputy attorney general representing the state,
argued that the lawsuit improperly asks the judiciary to get involved in decisions ...
9 Nov, 2007 3:06 pm
... , et al. v. Indiana Department of Local Government Finance, et al., an 11-page opinion issued today, Judge Fisher rules: For the
aforementioned reasons, this Court does not have subject matter jurisdiction over the Petitioners' case. As a ... its order on 'the current statutory framework limits which limit access
to the Tax Court'. The taxpayers certainly respect Judge Thomas Fisher, who essentially held that his
hands were tied by the law as it stands today. The 'statutory framework' to which the ...
10 Nov, 2007 5:31 am
... 's discontent with the purported inadequacies of Indiana's property assessment and taxation system," Indiana Tax Court Judge Thomas
Fisher wrote in the 11-page ruling. "What the petitioners are asking the court to do, however, is to create and confer upon itself ... higher
court rulings to cases arising from decisions of the Indiana Department of State Revenue and the Indiana Board of Tax Review, Fisher wrote. He
also wrote that he lacked standing to rule on constitutional issues under current law.
27 Mar, 2008 1:57 am
... he wishes and that's OK," Scalia said. "Only he can't put on an incompetent defense?...The state still has to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt." Indiana Solicitor General
Thomas Fisher said the right to self-representation is not absolute. "It is within the state's
authority to override self-representation when the defendant can't communicate coherently," Fisher said. Scalia shot back, "I sometimes think
lawyers can't communicate coherently."
17 Jun, 2008 4:11 pm
... practices, it seems to me they would do it more explicitly than in silence in a robo-call statute, right?" Sullivan asked Solicitor General Thomas Fisher. Fisher told justices the law aims to protect privacy.
Because the legislature did not to create an exception for political calls, the statute applies to all callers delivering all messages, he said. But Edward Delaney, representing
defendant Jim Gonzalez, said ...
11 May 1:54 pm
... dissents from the denial. They're mostly -- but not entirely -- predictable: Judges Fletcher, Pregerson, Reinhardt, Paez, Rawlinson, Wardlaw, Thomas, Fisher, Graber and Berzon (all Democratic appointees), plus Chief Judge Kozinski -- the last being one
that's far from a certain vote, and who signs onto Judge Fisher's very nuanced concurrence that essentially says "I don't agree with everything
Judge Fletcher says, but this is important enough ...
5 Sep, 2007 6:27 pm
... 90,000 units of Mattel's GeoTrax locomotive line and 8,900 Big Big World 6-in-1 Bongo Band toys, both from the company's Fisher-Price
brand. The Big Big World products were sold nationwide from July through August of this year, while the GeoTrax toys were sold from September ... E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). (Source:
Washington Post.) If you purchased any of the recalled toys, you may have a legal claim. For further information, feel free to contact the Law Office of Thomas Glenn Martin by clicking here.
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