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I. INTRODUCTION
In late June 2007, the newly formed Roberts Supreme Court of the United States (2) issued two significant opinions: Morse v. Frederi...
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PORTLAND, Maine -- The Maine Supreme Judicial Court next week will hear oral arguments in the appeals of three convicted killers in two murder cases.
Darlene George, 46, of Old Orchard Beach, and her brother, Jeffrey Williams, 48, of West Hempstead, N.Y., are serving 40 years and life in prison, respectively, for murdering her husband on June 20, 2008, in the couple's Old Orchard Beach home.
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In a roundtable discussion, lawyers talked about the Justices, some of the cases of the Supreme Court Term, and the Steel Seizure Cases. Abner J. Mikva, Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, said there were certain things that Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton expected very much for the clerks to do. One was to do the so-called cert memos. Charles C. Hileman, the law clerk for Judge Herbert F. Goodrich at the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit during 1950-1951, said they'd write a short memo telling a Justice what the case was about and their recommendation as to whether he should vote in favor of taking the case or not. William H. Rehnquist was a law clerk for Justice Robert H. Jackson at the Supreme Court. He doesn't think most of the court c...
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In a highly anticipated decision, on August 27, the Delaware Supreme Court upheld Chancellor Leo Strine's October 2011 trial decision in the Southern ...
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday bolstered law enforcement in national security cases, permitting prosecution of U.S. organizations that provide nonviolent legal training or advice to designated terrorist groups.
In the year's most anticipated war-on-terrorism decision, the court by a 6-3 vote ruled that legal and political training proposed to be offered by the Humanitarian Law Project and several California- based groups could amount to "material support" for terrorists.
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A federal judge recently concluded that the statute of limitations period does not begin to run for common law bad faith actions filed in Pennsylvania...
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A federal judge recently concluded that the statute of limitations period does not begin to run for common law bad faith actions filed in Pennsylvania...
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I. INTRODUCTION: THE THEME OF "CHANGE"
The idea of "change" in public policy is everywhere in the United States today. In significant measure, this ...
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Article by John C. Berghoff, Jr. , Susan E. Brice , Frederic L. Hahn , Kathryn Kusske Floyd , Thomas V. Skinner and Mark R. Ter Molen
Originally pub...