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24 May 2007, 10:20 pm
The main problem with the lower court's ruling in this case is not whether the victim of verbal abuse can sue for damages, but whether the government -- the court -- can issue orders prohibiting certain disfavored words from being said at all, regardless of the context in which they're said.While we had taken a position that opposed the ACLU, it's worth noting that a year earlier, in 1997, in addition to filing a lawsuit against Attorney General Janet Reno… [read post]
23 May 2007, 3:26 am
What's next, attorneys doing heart surgery? [read post]
23 May 2007, 2:29 am
So to answer the question posed, I don’t believe that General Counsel here in the states are any more trusting than in Europe regarding the tendency of firm attorneys to pad their hours. [read post]
20 May 2007, 10:01 pm
(That's the main point of this post.)As for the second point, I'm afraid Doug is grasping at straws. [read post]
20 May 2007, 8:17 am
I don't know the guy making this report about the aftermath of the Greensburg, Kansas tornado, but he gives FEMA generally bad marks. [read post]
19 May 2007, 10:12 am
Outside of the five main executing states of Texas, Virginia, Oklahoma, Missouri and Florida, this figure rises to one in five for the remaining 28 jurisdictions that have executed since 1977. [read post]
18 May 2007, 1:15 pm
However, the blog allows more in-depth and current coverage of the legal happenings within the state. [read post]
17 May 2007, 1:01 pm
Tierney (pictured), a former Maine attorney general who lives in Lisbon Falls, took delight in our call and encouraged us to start a movement to change “attorneys general” to “attorney generals. [read post]
17 May 2007, 9:01 am
Tierney (pictured), a former Maine attorney general who lives in Lisbon Falls, took delight in our call and encouraged us to start a movement to change “attorneys general” to “attorney generals. [read post]
16 May 2007, 3:12 pm
STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL, SEX OFFENDERS, MySpace, and the law. [read post]
16 May 2007, 10:01 am
They simply don’t know how poorly their words come across, or how many negative feelings they may inadvertently be generating. [read post]
14 May 2007, 8:10 pm
Ravel noted that the town clerk was just following the instructions of the Attorney General, and she didn't like being a defendant in the case. [read post]
13 May 2007, 6:46 am
New Hampshire's attorney general, Kelly A. [read post]
11 May 2007, 3:21 am
"Former state attorney general and former State Supreme Court Judge Peter G.Verniero reiterated those findings in a Jan. 14 op-ed piece in The New YorkTimes, writing: "Despite the law on the books, this state has never reallyembraced capital punishment. [read post]
10 May 2007, 11:24 am
A LOSS FOR ELLIOT SPITZER: One of the cases that former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer might have expected to be a slam dunk was his six charges against former New York Stock Exchange Chairman Richard Grasso. . . . [read post]
8 May 2007, 1:03 pm
In many states (and in Maine) you may compel your attorney to participate in fee arbitration when there is a dispute about what is owed. [read post]
8 May 2007, 8:01 am
Once in federal court, they felt that, in general, they would have a more sympathetic judicial ear for the claim that multi-state class actions brought under state law - that is, the laws of multiple states - would fail to meet the "predominance" requirement of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 and, thus, couldn't be certified as class actions. [read post]
8 May 2007, 5:27 am
Admissible or Admissibility: Any testimony, docu Âment or demonstrative material that is officially con Âsidered by the court by allowing it into evidence generally in compliance with the rules of evidence. [read post]
7 May 2007, 1:38 pm
Aside from the distribution of wealth, the other main function of the divorce court is to set child custody and visitation schedules. [read post]
5 May 2007, 7:57 am
Madden's HB 914 creating and inspector general at TYC (discussed briefly here) is also moving through the process and likely to pass in some form.Competency RestorationSB 867 by Duncan (discussed here) along with new funding for state hospitals (that will be decided in conference committee) are the two main legislative initiatives to address the crisis of mentally ill defendants languishing in jail without trial - often on misdemeanor charges - because the… [read post]
