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17 Jul 2011, 10:43 am
The album leads off with Aguas de Marco, in which the two show off their great chemistry with an enchanting back-and-forth vocal, and follows with some of Jobim's greatest works, including Triste and Corcovado, all of which are beautifully interpreted by Regina. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 8:28 am
There are two main groups of critics of the family courts: they are Father’s rights groups (such as Fathers4Justice but of course there are many others) who concern themselves primarily with private law disputes, and a quite separate group concerned primarily with care proceedings and “forced” adoptions (John Hemming MP and journalist Christopher Booker to give two examples). [read post]
27 May 2011, 3:18 am
Twitter recently alerted me to the existence of an interesting discussion thread on Mumsnet concerning adoption and care and John Hemming (Hat tip to @carlgardner, who in turn got his heads up from @thesmallplaces). [read post]
24 May 2011, 10:58 am
Countervailing Considerations If we assume that Part A results in greater proportionality—and hence greater justice—there would have to be some compelling reason to justify withholding the amendment’s benefits from the thousands of imprisoned individuals who were sentenced under the previous, less proportionate regime. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 7:13 am
Booker, 259 Ga. 343 (1989), found that under Georgia Law (O.C.G.A §§ 51-1-21 and 51-1-22 ) the owner of a boat/ watercraft can be held responsible for boating accident injuries caused by another person's negligence if the driver is a family member, or the owner gave consent for the negligent party to operate the boat/ watercraft. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 6:54 am
Doug Berman of Sentencing Law and Policy blog describes the case as the “biggest federal sentencing case of the term to date,” and in a second post he praises “Justice Sotomayor’s opinion [for] weaving its way through a range of post-Booker issues and various other aspects of modern federal sentencing law and practice. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 4:09 am
Calhoun, we hear about Elizabeth Cady Stanton; and instead of Booker T. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 1:46 pm
Litigating in the post-Booker world should have prepared us for the Ninth's three-page, per curiam, New Year's Eve decision in Peeples, where a panel assures us that "mandatory" is really "discretionary," so there's no constitutional worries at all. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 5:20 pm
In this regular feature we draw attention to the last week’s law and media news and next week’s upcoming events. [read post]
11 Sep 2010, 12:09 pm
Booker and advised him that she was the sole beneficiary of C.J.'s life insurance policy. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 12:35 pm
Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005). [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 3:07 am
Booker, the first time a blawg was cited. [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 3:33 am
… on allied offenses, sentencing, and the castle doctrine… I’ve been having a running debate with my buddy John Martin, appellate chief of the county PD”s office, about allied offenses, and the implications of State v. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 6:07 pm
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1 Jul 2010, 5:20 pm
Today, Antonin Scalia often jumps in first, signalling the intentions of the Court’s ascendant conservative wing, and sometimes Chief Justice John G. [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 1:32 pm
Fisher, is the last in our series on John Paul Stevens. [read post]
24 May 2010, 11:29 pm
The panelists included John Conyers (Chairman of the House judiciary committee), William Sessions (Chair of the U.S. [read post]
10 May 2010, 6:11 am
In other news, the DBR (John Pacenti) covers the debate about whether PSIs are really needed after Booker. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 1:29 pm
The sentence was not found to be unconstitutional under Booker. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 11:00 am
Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), in which the Court first famously held, in regard to New Jersey's "hate crimes" statute, that "[t]he Constitution requires that any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum, other than the fact of a prior conviction, must be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt. [read post]
