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28 Jan 2009, 9:47 am
Berman, in today’s New York Law Journal, discusses one of the risks of doing business on the internet via a website: depending on how solicitous a foreign website is to New Yorkers and their business, that website may serve as the basis for jurisdiction in New York in the event of a lawsuit. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 5:00 pm
Berman makes a great point here, and I agree that we need more focus on issues like parole, drug sentences and mandatory minimums. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 2:34 pm
Berman, Is There an Ivy-Leaguer Exception to Federal Child Porn Charges? [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 9:36 am
As Doug Berman's Sentencing Law & Policy blog notes, the Court meant it when they said the Guidelines are advisory. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 6:30 am
., Neuberger Berman Real Estate Income Fund, Inc. v. [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 3:51 am
But I wanted to refer readers to this post from Doc Berman about a sentencing proposal in Michigan to save money on incarceration costs:The State of Michigan could save $262 million in prison costs by 2015 by bringing parole policies in line with other states - and releasing thousands of prisoners earlier - according to a yearlong analysis of crime and punishment conducted by national policy center. ...The key recommendation, to require most prisoners to be released after serving 120% of… [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 11:59 am
The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS) is a collaborative neuroethics effort of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 8:03 am
See commentary from Jacob Sullum at Reason Hit and Run, Doc Berman at Sentencing Law & Policy, Paul Burka from Texas Monthly, Jeralyn at Talk Left, and P.S. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 11:58 pm
Sentencing maven Doug Berman sought Lawprof/Counsel for the Appellant, Mark Osler's reaction to the decision and here's the response: While today's Spears opinion at times reads like a WWE Sentencing Smack-down hosted on the Food Network, with the majority's description of the Eighth Circuit's opinion as "a smuggled-in dish that is indigestible" and the dissent's reference to the "bitter medicine" of summary… [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 8:29 am
Berman, whose town has had to shelve plans for a new highway garage with solar panels. [read post]
19 Jan 2009, 1:00 pm
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16 Jan 2009, 11:30 pm
Via Doug Berman, Culture II has put together three posts that seek to present both sides of the never-ending war on drugs, together with an analysis of the cost this misbegotten war has on our society. [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 5:34 am
Doug Berman of the Sentencing Law and Policy blog said the cases offer further proof that the high court is the 'most pro- defendant appellate court in the nation on sentencing issues.' In one case, justices agreed unanimously that a conviction on the charge of 'failure to report' to prison is not the kind of prior "violent felony' conviction that triggers a 15-year mandatory prison sentence for someone found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm. [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 4:56 am
Over at the Sentencing Law and Policy blog, professor Doug Berman is already proclaiming that the decisions offer further proof... [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 7:18 pm
It has always been a strained argument that a law with serious prison penalties could be considered "regulatory," but at least that finding was applied in a consistent manner by the Ninth Circuit.Doug Berman also had some interesting comments on the case:The fact that a federal circuit court has found a non-capital prison sentence unconstitutionally excessive is big new in itself. [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 6:22 pm
This same reader also sent along these questions: Four years on, Professor Berman, and how "effectively advisory" are those guidelines? [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 9:03 am
January 9, 2009), as highlighted on Professor's Berman's website here, Judge Merritt filed an opinion that dissents from the court's decision to affirm a 17.5 year sentence in a child pornography possession case. [read post]
11 Jan 2009, 10:10 pm
Berman, Pondering the U.S. [read post]
11 Jan 2009, 3:09 am
For Further Reading: For various commentary on Gonzalez-Zotelo, visit Professor Berman's sentencing site here.Image of the Hon. [read post]
10 Jan 2009, 4:59 am
According to the family attorney, William Berman of San Diego, after years in court, forensic experts and deposition testimony revealed that the rental car firm allowed the failed tire to run for a prolonged time in a severely under-inflated state. [read post]
