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25 Feb 2009, 4:41 pm
McClatchy's Michael Doyle has documented media coverage of this latest phase of the Chandra Levy murder case, adding to what he's already done on his blog in multiple posts about the Levy investigation. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 4:43 pm
Greg Moran is a brave reporter -- and, evidently, one who has his editors' trust. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 11:18 am
Speaking of judges who forget they're public servants, the visiting judge hearing the unprecedented criminal prosecution of U.S. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 4:59 am
Here's a wonderful example of a local newspaper's commitment to public access to court records. [read post]
21 Feb 2009, 10:59 am
If today's news about the Chandra Levy case proves true, and D.C. police charge the suspect identified in last summer's Washington Post series that I praised here, then a few legal-reporting reminders are in order:1. [read post]
21 Feb 2009, 7:54 am
The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog lost its primary writer to newspaper-wide staff cuts. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 12:12 pm
Call me Mr. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 1:21 am
Lynnley Browning's front-pager in the Times on the $780 million settlement between the federal government and UBS -- a deal casting a harsh light on Swiss banking practices -- contains a curious graf near the end:The move by UBS to settle the case, on the eve of a Senate subcommittee hearing next Tuesday on the matter, signals how close the bank came to being indicted for not cooperating with prosecutors. [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 5:16 am
When I heard Steve Inskeep's intro of this Ari Shapiro piece on NPR's Morning Edition, I had my skeptic's hat on (it's a rather handsome piece of headwear, but I'll save details on that for another post). [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 4:43 am
The Journal's Michael Corkery turns the foreclosure crisis into a vivid vignette in this piece today focusing on how Florida courts are dealing with a glut of cases. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 4:28 am
Two recent journalism awards, including the top-shelf Polk Awards, included legal reporters among their honorees. [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 5:06 am
In her 90-second broadcast report, and an accompanying text story on the Web, reporter and weekend anchor Jen Hale at Birmingham, Alabama's NBC affiliate, WVTM Channel 13, treats seriously a state legislator's proposal that flies directly in the face of last year's Supreme Court ruling barring capital punishment for raping but not killing a child. [read post]
15 Feb 2009, 4:14 am
What's most remarkable about Adam Liptak's front-pager today on the pending Supreme Court case on judicial ethics and independence, Caperton v. [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 11:26 am
Like many readers of The New York Times, I was shocked to read today of the judicial scandal in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where two judges stand convicted of taking millions in kickbacks for sending juveniles to a privately owned lockup. [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 11:02 am
The legendary Wayne Barrett accomplished two feats in this story about the political levers pulled to put Jonathan Lippman in the chief judge seat of New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals: he showed how uninspired the Times and other newspapers in the state have been in covering such a crucial judicial appointment; and he provided a stark reminder that so-called merit selection is not the squeaky-clean alternative to elections that it's cracked up to be -- especially in the Empire… [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 6:57 am
Justice at Stake, the Soros-funded goo-goos campaigning to rein in or abolish judicial elections (that's what it means in its slogan about "working for fair and impartial courts"), has built this impressive resource site on the pending Caperton v. [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 2:54 am
Nearly 11 months ago, I prodded the Times to dig more deeply into the autism-and-vaccines controversy -- a health story, but with a major legal angle, as parents seek compensation on claims that common vaccines can cause autism. [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 2:35 am
John Schwartz tells a fascinating story today about a controversy over the federal courts' PACER records system. [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 7:11 am
I love it when a small trade publication breaks a good story. [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 6:26 am
Jess Bravin provides a primer on legal standing in today's Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) -- not a sure-fire crowd pleaser, but his conversational, example-filled story does a marvelous job of explain an abstract theory to lay readers. [read post]
