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5 Nov 2007, 2:19 am
Significantly, however, the Council of Europe - whose European Court of Human Rights has always held habeas to be important but never to be non-derogable - has recently indicated that habeas may be moving towards non-derogability under the ECHR system as well. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 9:44 pm
This method was replaced, in turn, in 2003 with lethal injection.Amnesty International opposes the death penalty without reservation as a violation of the right to life and the right not to be exposed to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. [read post]
25 Oct 2007, 5:30 pm
This is different from general civil litigation, where many removed cases are promptly remanded. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 6:53 am
However, civil law jurisdiction countrie [read post]
21 Oct 2007, 12:30 am
It was a good deal, his lawyer told him. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 2:28 pm
How can we expect to attract and retain the best and brightest legal minds when a newly minted lawyer fresh out of law school can earn more than our most senior jurists? [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 5:54 am
Miller and civil rights lawyer and Penn law professor David Rudovsky. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 9:11 am
Meanwhile, with war in Iraq, civil rights being flouted in Jena, Louisiana, our economy on the brink, our supreme courts ignoring The Rule of Law, over one hundred (100) Oregon State Bar leadership lawyers decide at their annual business meeting what is important to them -- whether mandatory lawyer membership dues should be spent on liquor at such gatherings. [read post]
2 Oct 2007, 7:48 am
This leads the administration -- this is true of any presidency - to do anything they can to prevent a terrorist attack, including going right up to the edge of a law. [read post]
1 Oct 2007, 5:03 am
"Last term saw the Court eroding the rights defendants have under habeas corpus, and for the first time since Brown v. [read post]
1 Oct 2007, 1:08 am
All rights reserved. [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 2:41 pm
Appellant Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc.'s ("CLC") brief is due October 9, Appellee Craigslist's brief is due November 20, and CLC's reply brief is due December 7, 2007.It will be interesting to see how the the Ninth Circuit's Roommate.com decision figures in to the parties' briefs. [read post]
22 Sep 2007, 10:02 pm
Update: More from Mukasey on how he'll be independent from the White House: At a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Thursday, chairman Patrick Leahy recounted asking Mukasey during a private meeting about White House meddling in criminal and civil cases. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 5:31 am
Does a memo from a league VP have the effect of law? [read post]
12 Sep 2007, 6:31 am
Among the panel were: Anurima Bhargava, Director of the Education Group of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Nadine Cohen, staff counsel for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association; Dennis Parker, Director of the Racial Justice Program of the ACLU; and Cynthia Valenzuela, Director of Litigation for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 6:11 pm
I realize lawyers must represent their clients, but it seems that some positions you've taken in previous cases are inconsistent with positions on the law you've taken in the lacrosse case. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 12:48 am
Now a county bar association has taken the unusual step of establishing a special animal law committee. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 8:05 am
Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union documented 16 death penalty cases in Florida alone, where lawyers missed deadlines.Critics of the law say that moving up deadlines without guaranteeing that defendants have competent lawyers would be reckless.Death-row inmates spend an average of 10.5 years in the legal system before execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a research group that opposes capital punishment. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 8:58 am
Especially in the ongoing sealing case, there are serious questions of law involved, especially those affecting the rights of underprivileged sections of Indian society. [read post]
26 Aug 2007, 10:00 am
Commission on Civil Rights hopes that it can persuade the State Bar to reconsider. [read post]
