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25 Nov 2011, 8:08 am by Walter Olson
” [John Steele, LEF] Mens rea erosion a “deeply troublesome trend” [Kevin LaCroix on WSJ] “Trial penalty,” long sentence minimums give prosecutors muscle to extract plea deals [NYT, Sullum] “Settlements feed U.S. prosecutor overreach” [Reynolds Holding, Reuters BreakingViews] “Responsible corporate officer doctrine” worries pharma defense lawyers [WSJ Law Blog] “The continuing quest to criminalize business judgment”… [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 9:07 am by rgeorges
Thanks to my friend, Tom Kirkendall, who posted this on Google Plus. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 6:49 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Larry Ribstein, Tom Kirkendall, and yours truly have often complained about the tendency in the United States to criminalize agency costs. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 3:02 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Tom Kirkendall has another excellent post in his ongoing coverage of the federal government's efforts to criminalize bad business judgment. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 5:51 am by Larry Ribstein
”" Tom Kirkendall, who has been following these prosecutions closely, comments: The deal did not affect AIG’s net income and was the type of transaction that AIG — and many other companies in the insurance industry – had done for years without any adverse market reaction, much less a criminal investigation. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 5:14 am by Ted Frank
[Kirkendall] Jurisdiction-shopping shenanigans. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 8:16 pm by Kevin Funnell
” In many respects, the defendants' counsel's arguments mirror those that Houston criminal lawyer Tom Kirkendall, who's been asserting for some time now that both Republican and Democratic administrations have been "criminalizing" business decisions with the benefit of hindsight. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 9:14 am by Ted Frank
[Henderson via Kirkendall; NY Post] Senate Judiciary Committee plans to bash Supreme Court at hearing on Wednesday. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 5:28 am by Ted Frank
[Taylor; Kirkendall; WSJ; NYT; WRAL] [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 3:37 am by Larry Ribstein
Tom Kirkendall rightly criticizes a Gretchen Morgenson “newsitorial” in the NYT on the absence of criminal prosecutions from the financial meltdown. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 7:30 am by Ted Frank
[Podgor (discussing harmless error procedure issues); Berman; Kirkendall; TalkLeft; WSJ Law Blog] [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 3:50 am by SHG
  Tom Kirkendall says it's not over yet. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 8:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Because of this limited impact, the most effective graffiti policies focus more on non-criminal justice solutions, but the Legislature has pretty much been a one-trick pony on this subject.Error in convicting Enron chief of non-existent crime deemed "harmless"Tom Kirkendall and Ellen Podgor have excellent discussions of the implications of the latest Fifth Circuit  decision finding "harmless error" in the Jeffrey Skilling/Enron case regarding so-called "honest… [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 7:25 pm by Annette Berksan
Thomas III, University of Houston Law Center, Lone Star Legal Aid, Galveston Nakis Urfi, University of Houston Law Center, Lone Star Legal Aid, Nacogdoches April Kirkendall, University of Nebraska College of Law, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Laredo Adriana Bole, University of Texas School of Law, Paso del Norte Civil Rights Project, El Paso About the Internships Each law student will receive hands-on training by working with accomplished lawyers and providing direct legal… [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 7:00 am by zshapiro
In the cases of Henderson, McClune, and Kirkendall, all of whom received below guidelines sentences the judges on resentencing said that they had reviewed the 3553(a) factors at the time of sentencing and saw no reason to reconsider the sentence. [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 3:16 am by SHG
  Over the weekend, Tom Kirkendall at Houston's Clear Thinkers twitted how Norm Pattis'  is "writing the best material in the blogosphere about the injustice of over-inclusive sex offender laws" with this post. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 4:41 am by SHG
Considers these two recent Enron-related posts by Tom Kirkendall at Houston's Clear Thinkers: "Causey plea deal expected today" and "Causey pleads to seven years. [read post]
8 Nov 2010, 8:04 am by Stephen Albainy-Jenei
On Houston’s Clear Thinkers, Tom Kirkendall ponders the view of cancer as tenaciously persistent and able to regenerate after apparently disappearing — driven by a specific cell type lurking within the cancer that is capable of dormancy, growth and infinite regeneration – a cancer “stem cell” in The Cancer Sleeper Cell Shamnad Basheer, at SpicyIP, writes about inadequate access to the patent system itself. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 8:15 am by Ted Frank
[Bashman link roundup; earlier at POL; me in 2008 at American Spectator] Relatedly, Tom Kirkendall reminds us that the Fifth Circuit today will hear oral argument on Jeffrey Skilling's appeal of his criminal conviction—and that not a single Enron Task Force conviction has been upheld on appeal so far. [read post]