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8 Jun 2016, 2:49 pm by Kevin LaCroix
On May 23, 2016, in an interesting development in one of the more high profile lawsuits to arise out of the financial crisis, the Second Circuit reversed the $1.27 billion civil penalty that Southern District of New York Judge Jed Rakoff  imposed on Countrywide and several related defendants in a case involving the company’s sale of mortgages to government sponsored entities. [read post]
26 Dec 2022, 9:05 pm by Series of Essays
The Regulatory Review is pleased to highlight our top regulatory essays of 2022 authored by a select number of our many expert contributors. [read post]
25 Nov 2015, 9:45 am by Bill Otis
 Or I could talk about judges whose behavior was not mere sloppy or unethical but criminal:  Walter Nixon, Otto Kerner, Harry Claiborne (who continued to preside over cases from his prison cell), and Alcee Hastings (whose "accountability" for selling favorable treatment to a defendant was to become one of the most senior members of the leadership of the House of Representatives). [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Although recent decades have been a period of relative calm, states historically had sharp and longstanding disagreements about who should be permitted to marry and under what circumstances. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 6:38 am by Charon QC
Sir Walter Scott This famous quotation seems, to my eye, to be as good a way of introducing the Scots law blogs as any…apart from this great photograph which I could not resist Lallands Peat Worrier considers the Sheridan perjury case… On the perjuries of a satsuma socialist… Law’s great brutality, and in many respects, its great achievement, is its artificial finality. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 4:00 am by Terry Hart
The question I’ve been asking in a series of recent posts is whether history can provide any insight into current claims that copyright law and the First Amendment conflict. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 11:09 am by Charles Johnson
A probation or parole revocation can severely impact your life and send you to jail or prison. [read post]
26 Aug 2015, 8:30 pm
The respondent has not provided any evidence to rebut the applicant’s assertion that the cost of the emergency room services totaled $6,332.28, therefore, that is the amount the applicant should receive for providing “necessary emergency health services” to the injured person in the event the respondent has demonstrated that the injured person was intoxicated at the time of the subject automobile accident.In sharp and irreconcilable contrast to what Arbitrator Benzinger… [read post]
22 Oct 2014, 8:49 am by JD Hull
Bradlee with Washington Post owner Katherine Graham in 1971. [read post]
11 Mar 2021, 11:35 am
 For the last several months I have been sharing sneak peeks of a book to be published in early 2021: Hong Kong Between 'One Country' and 'Two Systems':  Essays from the Year that Transformed the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (June 2019 – June 2020)  (Little Sir Press). [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 2:00 am by Steve Lombardi
Cops: Wrong-Way Driver Was High on Sunken Meadow Patch.com By Kaitlyn Piccoli New Hyde Park resident Walter Tortora was arrested on charges of DWI drugs anddriving the wrong way on the Sunken Meadow Parkway. [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Even in states where COVID-19 protections do remain in place, the issue has exposed a sharp partisan divide and provoked unrest among lawmakers. [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 4:11 pm by Lyle Denniston
  Former teacher Cheryl Perich will be represented, in a 10-minute segment, by Walter Dellinger of the Washington, D.C., office of O’Melveny & Myers. [read post]