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2 Dec 2009, 12:03 pm by Jeff Gamso
But the union has scheduled a press conference for this afternoon to show their solidarity with the voluntarily jailed contemnor and thief Adam Stoddard who was just doing his job when he illegally and indefensibly read and then appropriated papers from defense attorney Joanne Cuccia's case files.And where, for the second time this week, a bomb threat has been called in by someone allegedly disgruntled with the Public Defender. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 8:17 am by Indefensible
In the wake of yesterday's news that RTB had been cancelled, I found myself thinking a lot about the whole arc of my life, (leaving The Bronx Defenders, writing Indefensible, going back and forth to Hollywood etc) and more specifically about time and doing time. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 7:19 am
And indeed, that may make Bush's policy defensible and Obama's indefensible. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 6:21 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
" Here, since the state appellate courts' interpretation of the riot law "was not so unexpected and indefensible as to deprive Ortiz of fair notice," the adverse ruling was not unreasonable and therefore does not support his habeas petition. [read post]
27 Nov 2009, 10:01 pm by Tom
Following on a point made in these earlier posts, the Chron's Mary Flood reports on the indefensible conditions that the federal government has imposed on R. [read post]
27 Nov 2009, 2:28 pm
 I blogged a couple of weeks ago about the Registry's indefensible position that Dr. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 1:54 pm
 The DOJ, put in the position of defending a logically indefensible statute, concocted its "neutrality" argument. [read post]
18 Nov 2009, 12:37 pm by Steve Hall
Somehow this put me in mind of the ancient tradition of the Spanish bullfight, which may seem like an odd cognitive leap, but go along with me for a moment: The bullfight is one of the few modern occasions where death becomes a spectacle that crowds congregate to witness, recalling public executions of the past.Philosophically, the bullfight is practically indefensible, though many have tried to make a case for it. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 1:24 pm by Alex Basilevsky
They have objected on the bases that (1) the 2009 determination appears to have been created solely to settle the lawsuit without any scientific support; and (2) the timeline set by the decree is entirely unrealistic and will lead to the adoption of scientifically indefensible standards.Though I have to admit to being skeptical that valid standards can be arrived at within the time period allotted, that is actually not what interests me here. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 1:24 pm by Alex Basilevsky
They have objected on the bases that (1) the 2009 determination appears to have been created solely to settle the lawsuit without any scientific support; and (2) the timeline set by the decree is entirely unrealistic and will lead to the adoption of scientifically indefensible standards. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 10:07 am
” Citing Reagan’s 1987 speech in which he took responsibility for trading arms for hostages in Iran, Sullivan continues: “You may not have intended to torture people, but you did; you may have acted to protect the country within the law, but that admirable desire too easily slid into your approval of actions that are indefensible, illegal, and deeply damaging to America’s reputation and honor. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 1:31 pm
Fifth, and finally, it is important to note that one aspect of the Trial Chamber’s decision is completely legally indefensible: The right of an accused to be present during his trial is, indeed, a right that can be voluntarily waived by that accused and there may indeed be circumstances in which a Trial Chamber could decide to proceed in his absence, even if an accused were not represented by counsel. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 9:20 am
It is conventionally portrayed as chaotic and "muddy," and yet attempts by the judiciary to create some sense of order in it by delineating this field into distinctive categories that apply to each a different set of rules are often criticized as analytically incoherent or normatively indefensible. [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 4:07 pm
However, that conclusion is indefensible as a matter of both statutory construction and epistemology. [read post]
27 Oct 2009, 11:42 pm
This is artistically indefensible and, I suspect, commercially suicidal.I'm not sure what "absolutely fabulous retro vibe" feels like to people who didn't live through the 70s when they were really happening. [read post]
25 Oct 2009, 2:03 pm by Albert Wan
 I would argue that arresting a colleague, especially for the dubious crime of “jaywalking,” after a heated argument about rescinding a traffic ticket, is indefensible before most juries. [read post]
24 Oct 2009, 10:30 am
It suggests that, although the respondeat superior standard is truly indefensible, it survives because it affords broad powers to prosecutors. [read post]