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18 Oct 2023, 12:44 pm by Eugene Volokh
Kenner also appeared to believe it was a defense if it was Wynn who influenced the Government to extradite Guo, ignoring the Government's contention that Broidy used Wynn for this purpose. [read post]
28 May 2012, 9:30 pm
And in a world of States with differing interests and values, the adoption of new rules governing armed conflict and belligerent occupation will be difficult, if not impossible. [read post]
19 Apr 2016, 5:47 am
Both are funny in their own way but also annoying if you actually care about the problems of religious freedom, which involve coordinating a lot of conflicting interests and could benefit from more open-minded, educated thinking from the citizenry. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 1:09 pm by Mike Scarcella
DOJ lawyers said federal appellate courts are squarely in conflict over whether the authorities need to obtain a warrant to use GPS tracking technology. [read post]
17 Jan 2010, 4:28 am by SHG
  So from the technical perspective, it would appear that Coakley's demand would be an ethical violation, though the rule is primarily directed toward civil cases where a lawyer would trade-off one client's recovery for another.As another of Anderson's commenters note, this problem arises not only from Coakley, but from Sultan's representation of multiple defendants, post appeal, and thus implicates Bennett's conflict of interest point,… [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 11:47 am by Jay Rivera
  Under conflicts of interests rules, a per se standard is also the norm. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 3:34 am by SHG
Most importantly, government lawyers can act strategically to play for bigger long-term victories, while defense lawyers must zealously advocate for the interests of their clients—even when they conflict with the interests of criminal defendants as a whole. [read post]
20 Nov 2015, 9:06 am by Doug Leavitt
To avoid an employee raising an allegation that the interviewing attorney has a conflict of interest because the employee believed that the attorney was also representing him, all interviews begin with the Upjohn Warning. [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 5:16 am by Paul Stephan
The law governing the initiation of armed conflicts, by contrast, expresses a kind of idealism, that law can hold back terrible things. [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 7:17 am by Jim Sedor
But what about state and local officials’ conflicts-of-interest? [read post]
11 Oct 2018, 4:14 am by Howard Friedman
It is only where that practice could conflict with an overriding public interest, such as another person’s constitutional rights, that a court may restrict it in a courtroom environment. [read post]
17 May 2016, 10:42 am by John Chierichella
  Perhaps an otherwise “clean” organizational conflict of interest certification will be compromised by the transfer, or the transfer may introduce a level of foreign, ownership, control or influence over the offeror that compromises its eligibility. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 7:08 am by Dan Bressler
” “In a 2021 interview with The Legal Intelligencer, leaders of Mullen Coughlin said it was founded by partners who sought to evade the constraints of larger firms—namely, territorial competition for clients and origination credit, pressure to maintain a sizeable book of business and inefficiency in checking for conflicts of interest. [read post]
1 Mar 2016, 7:39 am by Shane Reeves, Winston Williams
But in striking this difficult balance, which current or proposed justice brings a more than theoretical perspective regarding the challenges of governing amid ongoing conflict? [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 4:41 pm
Still, a potential conflict of interest on the case within the Obama administration is already brewing, a week before the Illinois Senator assumes the presidency. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 6:18 am by Emma DiNapoli
In its post-9/11 jurisprudence, the court has also made clear that only significant security (and legally prescribed) interests may be invoked to outweigh individual fundamental liberty interests, including the right to life. [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 8:49 am by Kathryn Fenderson Scott
Virtually all difficult ethical problems arise from conflict between a lawyer's responsibilities to clients, to the legal system and to the lawyer's own interest in remaining an ethical person while earning a satisfactory living. [read post]
20 Feb 2016, 12:33 pm by Yishai Schwartz
This is important in order to ensure that there is no conflict of interest here for the defense team. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 5:07 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
  Readers who are interested in the recognition of belligerency in non-international armed conflict will find that my response includes a much more academic treatment of that issue than has been possible on Opinio Juris. [read post]