The career of Justice Owen J. Roberts on the U.S. Supreme Court provides a cautionary lesson for today's Supreme Court, which seems in danger of making similar mistakes. Roberts concurred in a number of Commerce Clause cases in 1935-6 that threatened the New Deal, but later changed his position. The recent cases of United States v. Lopez and Seminole Tribe v. Florida appear to be heading in the same direction toward restricting Congressional power under the Commerce Clause. More serious, however, is the series of redistricting cases beginning with Shaw v. Reno that are based on a two-dimensional view of racial problems.
Philadelphia lawyer Ken Trujillo will replace Sanford Rivers of Churchill on the state Gaming Control Board, Gov. Ed Rendell announced Wednesday. Trujillo, 50, is a former Philadelphia city solicitor and assistant U.S. attorney who served on Rendell's and President Obama's transition teams.
In what is believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind, an Ohio woman is claiming that her ingestion of the popular anti-depressant Effexor during pregnancy caused a fatal birth defect in her daughter. This ... drug was approved by the FDA in 1993, but the parties involved neglected to disclose the birth defect risks to physicians treating women of child-bearing age," said Philadelphia lawyer Thomas Anapol in a press release.
A former Justice Department attorney originally from Westmoreland County slammed the Obama administration Thursday, claiming top officials lied to the public about a decision to drop a voter intimidation case against two members of the New Black Panthers Party. Christian Adams, who grew up in Hempfield, said he resigned last month because of the Justice Department's decision to not pursue its case against the two men who allegedly attempted to dissuade voters from casting ballots by pummeling them with racial slurs and threatening them with a nightstick.
A Milwaukee labor lawyer, Dan Vliet, was tapped by the Milwaukee School Board on Thursday to investigate whether board member Charlene Hardin violated the group's code of ethics in connection with a trip she took to Philadelphia in July. The decision to investigate her conduct was made over the objection of Hardin, who took part in the meeting and who referred to news coverage of her travel as "a high-tech lynching and yellow journalism.
PHILADELPHIA - A court in Egypt has ordered the release of three American students arrested during a protest in Cairo, a lawyer in Philadelphia confirmed Thursday. Derrik Sweeney, Luke Gates and Gregory Porter, who attend the American University in Cairo, were arrested on the roof of a university building near Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Sunday. Officials accused them of throwing firebombs at security forces fighting with protesters.
Saudi Arabia and several Saudi organizations and banks should cover the $215 million a group of insurers paid out in related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to a federal lawsuit the group filed on Thursday in Johnstown. Lloyd's Syndicate 3500, part of the company more commonly known as Lloyd's of London, filed the lawsuit in Western Pennsylvania because United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Somerset County. The group of insurance underwriters also wanted the case heard in a court covered by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to Stephen Cozen, a Philadelphia lawyer representing the underwriters.
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