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27 May 2011, 7:14 am by Lisa McElroy
” He is now more senior than any of the Justices who joined him in Plata; because the senior Justice in the majority assigns the opinion, he apparently assigned the opinion to himself. [read post]
26 May 2011, 3:03 pm
JEFFREY BROWN: In this case, the majority opinion written by Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts, and he said Arizona was in the bounds, right... [read post]
25 May 2011, 1:56 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
His amendment also authorizes DPS to operate southbound checkpoints.TDCJ staff fired for excessive force, contrabandSeveral firings at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice caught my attention recently. [read post]
25 May 2011, 6:02 am by John Elwood
  Certiorari stage documents: Opinion below (California Supreme Court) Petition for certiorari Brief of the Regents of the University of California et al. in opposition Brief of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges et al. in opposition Petitioners’ reply (forthcoming) Amicus brief of the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund, Inc. [read post]
24 May 2011, 10:40 am by Jason Poblete
The Court’s majority opinion, authored by Justice Kennedy (kinda takes the suspense out of guessing how he might will rule on Obamacare), stated that prison overcrowding led to terrible conditions. [read post]
24 May 2011, 8:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Plata (see the opinion), ordering them to lower the number of state prison inmates by as many as 38-46,000. [read post]
24 May 2011, 3:13 am by SHG
  Here's a nice photo, from Justice Kennedy's majority opinion of how mentally ill inmates were housed awaiting the opening of a bed:Somebody, some person, was made to live in this cage the size of a telephone booth for lack of anyplace else to put him. [read post]
23 May 2011, 6:09 pm by V.Venkatesan
The report of the Governor is contingent upon his subjective opinion, but this must be backed by objective circumstances and not assumptions of horse-trading or vitiated consent. [read post]
20 May 2011, 8:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Governor Perry has signed the TYC-Juvenile Probation Commission merger into law, establishing a new Texas Juvenile Justice Department by the end of the year. [read post]
18 May 2011, 11:44 am by Jason Byrne
In this per curiam opinion on behalf of Justices Young, Markman, Hathaway, Kelly and Zahra, the Court held that the potential of absurd results in different circumstances was an abstract issue that the Court need not consider. [read post]
17 May 2011, 6:38 pm by Christa Culver
This edition of “Petitions to watch” features cases up for consideration at the Justices’ May 19 conference. [read post]
17 May 2011, 6:45 am
In our opinion, Albin wrongfully overstepped his jurisdiction and the governor had every right to call him on it. [read post]
16 May 2011, 11:32 pm by Jeff Gamso
These determinations are governed by the substantive federal baseline for competency set down in Ford.That's the first paragraph of Justice Kennedy's opinion in Panetti v. [read post]
11 May 2011, 3:42 pm by Gideon
Connecticut’s capitulation to the person in question is well documented: our former Governor Rell repeatedly invoked his name in defeating criminal justice and death penalty abolition bills. [read post]
11 May 2011, 2:43 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] on Tuesday reversed two bribery charges [opinion, PDF] against former Alabama governor Don Siegelman [personal profile; JURIST news archive] and former HealthSouth [corporate website] CEO Richard Scrushy [JURIST news archive] and remanded the case for re-sentencing. [read post]
10 May 2011, 4:35 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Lawyers work for fees and I didn't invent the system of civil justice, nor did Glasheen or Blackburn. [read post]
9 May 2011, 3:58 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
“It has long been established that the prosecution’s ‘deliberate deception of a court and jurors by the presentation of known false evidence is incompatible with rudimentary demands of justice,’” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in the court’s majority opinion.In cases involving "deliberate deception of a court and jurors by the presentation of known false evidence," in the words of the Supreme Court majority, why shouldn't… [read post]
5 May 2011, 11:36 pm by Mandelman
New York Governor Patterson signed a new law on October 20, the “Access to Justice in Lending Act” (Chapter 550 of the Laws of 2010), which allows defendants who are [read post]
4 May 2011, 11:12 am by The Legal Blog
The paramount consideration behind vesting such wide power of superintendence in the High Court is paving the path of justice and removing any obstacles therein. [read post]