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16 May 2007, 4:29 am
The President signed the directive himself, and allowed the NSA program to continue for at least two weeks, even though DOJ had concluded that it was legally indefensible, i.e., that it violated a criminal statute. [read post]
6 Sep 2008, 5:38 pm
It led to the despicable and morally indefensible practice of undisclosed rebates and commission sharing on structured settlement annuity premium, often at the expense of the unwitting plaintiff or their trial lawyer. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 9:01 am by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
I said: I would like to see the Defense of Marriage Act go, and I encouraged the Obama administration to decline to defend it, but I don't think it's "indefensible," and in fact, it deserves to be defended, and the House Republicans did the right thing in hiring Clement. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 8:15 am by Lovechilde
  For starters, we need an immediate repeal of the indefensible carried-interest tax break, which allows hedge-fund titans to pay taxes of only 15 percent on their billions in gambling income. 5. [read post]
30 Jul 2008, 9:45 pm
I saw (and still do) Kroc as worse than the racist who would not hire African-Americans at all; Kroc knew his position was morally indefensible, but rather than make an effort to educate or inculcate or use his position for change, he let it all just slide. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 9:02 am
David Feige, Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey Into the Inferno of American Justice. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 4:36 am by Bill Otis
Conyers, said, "The sheer visuals of tossing Conyers, a civil rights legend, aside for a convicted felon would be close to indefensible. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 10:28 am by OBABL Staff
You don’t go around defending the indefensible … but you don’t regret, because at the time you thought it was the best you could do. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 5:21 am by Steve Cornforth
"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18814487The NHS Trust has apologised to his family.This will surely lead to an indefensible claim for clinical negligence against the trust which says that it has admitted responsibility – they didn’t really have much choice.I hope that Kane’s family get prompt and adequate justice for what he went through. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 9:53 am
AP Assurance was told by their own medical consultant that the surgical procedure performed on her was "inexcusable and indefensible. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 6:28 am
But the point is to illustrate that the A.P. is taking an absurd and indefensible position, too. [read post]
9 Dec 2010, 7:10 am by Jeralyn
Right now the lack of transparency (by releasing only the summary and not the report), the failure to provide names, and the inability to check their figures, renders the report meaningful only to those who want to use it as support for their indefensible agenda of keeping all terrorist suspects in indefinite detention for life. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 6:15 am by Lawrence Solum
Grounded on white supremacist notions of the inferiority of inhabitants in U.S. territories, the Insular Cases finally appear indefensible to modern eyes. [read post]
12 Jan 2018, 12:51 pm by John Buhl
But many states are currently ignoring the Quill decision, and absent the Court’s action—or legislation from Congress—this will result in a complex and indefensible patchwork of laws harming interstate commerce. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 8:49 am
Sometimes a driver's actions can seem completely indefensible, but that is a conclusion best left for a qualified lawyer to decide in the comfort of a conference room with his or her client. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 8:03 am
Ruckman at Pardon Power.In the comments over at Paul Burka's shop, I offered my own view on the sentence commutations:1) The BP agents committed a crime, covered it up, and deserved to be punished. 2) Their sentences were too long because of federal mandatory minimums sweepingly applied in an utterly undiscriminating fashion. 3) Therefore the commutations were justified based on the specifics of the cases, but 4) There are many, many thousands of similarly situated offenders who also received… [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 6:33 pm by Barry Sookman
For more information about CASL, see, CASL: the unofficial FAQ, regulatory impact statement, and compliance guideline, Michael Geist’s defense of Canada’s indefensible anti-spam law CASL. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 2:25 pm
In these matters, it is vital that the criminal defense attorney have the requisite experience and judgment to first recognize the fact that the case is indefensible and then the integrity to break the bad news to the client. [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 6:10 pm by Transplanted Lawyer
So are there violent, awful, morally indefensible passages in the Koran. [read post]
6 Oct 2018, 1:31 pm by Marty Lederman
On May 15, 1969, Justice Fortas resigned from the Supreme Court, thereby ending a seven-year period in which a 5-4 majority of the sitting Justices had been appointed by Democratic Presidents. [read post]