Judge Kermit Lipez and Senior Judge Bruce Selya joined the ruling.The appeal concerned O'Toole's order that Francis Janosko must pay the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department's $6,600 bill for credit monitoring. [read post]

France Professor Emeritus of Judicial Process, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Kermit Roosevelt, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School Peter Schuck, Baldwin Professor of Law Emeritus, Yale Law School Herman Schwartz, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law Eric Segall, Kathy and Lawrence Ashe Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law Matthew Seligman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. [read post]

In 1868, the Senate refused to seat Philip Francis Thomas of Maryland, who served as treasury secretary under President Buchanan.[26] Championing the refusal, Senator Jacob Howard argued that when "principal public functionaries" including Thomas and Floyd had resigned from Buchanan's cabinet, they had been perfectly aware of the cabal "endeavoring to … beleaguer the city of Washington with the design of seizing it … and, at all events,… [read post]