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30 Jul 2013, 5:29 am by Legal Beagle
Task Force members include the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, the Lord Advocate, representatives from COPFS, the Scottish Government, Police Scotland, HMRC, SOCA, SPS and the Scottish Business Resilience Centre. [read post]
The US House of Representatives Thursday issued final approval to the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill to federally recognize same-sex marriages, in a vote of 258 to 169. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 1:08 pm by Sandy Levinson
Could Earth Justice put on a campaign rally for the Democrat featuring a concert by Bruce Springsteen? [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 11:56 am by Jonathan Shaub
” The lawyer representing the Department of Justice eventually responded, “Not to my knowledge”—and then noted that he thought “the President would say, never before has Congress engaged in the sort of illegitimate things they’re doing. [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 8:55 am by Don Cruse
Previously: Four opinions and one grant (May 16, 2014) Three opinions, one grant (June 16, 2014) TEXAS STUDENT HOUSING AUTHORITY v. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 7:38 am by Tony Mauro
"I was naive," Graves told the audience at the Decatur House, near the White House. [read post]
11 Jun 2013, 5:35 am by Sarah Erickson-Muschko
In a second unanimous opinion, authored by Justice Thomas, the Court in Horne v. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 5:58 am by Paul Hancock and Andrew C. Glass
” The Court recognizes disparate impact under the Fair Housing Act Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. [read post]
18 Apr 2017, 9:01 am by Ronald Mann
During the argument of Thomas Goldstein (representing CalPERS, which tried to opt out of the class action after the expiration of the statute of repose), at least two of the justices (Justices Samuel Alito and newcomer Neil Gorsuch) seemed settled on the idea that the statute simply cannot be read to permit the late opting out. [read post]
24 Mar 2012, 8:55 am by Timothy P. Flynn
On numerous occasions over the years, I've represented criminally charged shooters from Detroit over in the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 4:00 am by Kari D. Boyle
In some cases it will be the court system; in others mediation would best match the client’s needs Providing a legal opinion on the likely success of the client’s claim or defence Providing legal advice at strategic points during a negotiation or mediation Agreement drafting: Translating an MOU formulated in mediation into a binding agreement Independent legal advice: advising the client on the draft agreement before signing Providing referrals to other types of services… [read post]
2 Dec 2016, 11:00 am by Jack Ballantyne, Olswang LLP
In R (on the application of Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice she considered the prohibition under the Suicide Act 1961 to be incompatible with the right to private life under the ECHR stating: “We do have jurisdiction, and in some circumstances an obligation, to form a professional opinion, as judges, as to the content of the Convention rights and the compatibility of the present law with them. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 5:24 am by Gerard Magliocca
What speeches were made by other Senators and by Representatives in the House upon this subject is not stated by counsel, nor does he state what construction was given to it, if any, by other members of Congress. [read post]
22 Apr 2009, 6:31 am
Until now we’d been led to believe that the people in the highest reaches of the White House, the Defense Department, the Justice Department were either stupid enough (Gonzales) or venal enough (Rumsfeld) or crazy enough (Cheney) to believe (or make themselves believe) that the sheaf of torture memos represented a genuine, or at least plausible, legal analysis, a conclusion buttressed by Bush administration groupthink enforced by the systematic exclusion of… [read post]
25 Jun 2015, 9:23 am by Lyle Denniston
In addition, the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives has sued to challenge the Obama administration’s one-year delay of an ACA mandate to employers to provide full health insurance coverage, and to the system of subsidies as those are paid to insurance companies to encourage them to provide low-cost premiums for the poor. [read post]
8 Sep 2024, 9:01 pm by Rodger Citron
The political and legal consensus that informed the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling against President Richard Nixon in the 1974 case involving the special prosecutor’s subpoena for White House records dissolved sometime this century.In 2020, a presidential election year, Chief Justice Roberts’ decisions in the subpoena cases represented the triumph of judicial statesmanship. [read post]