Spotlight on the Ninth Circuit’s Alex Kozinski: “ A ‘California eccentrics’ theme has emerged from our morning items. We just posted on Seymour Lazar, an 80-year-old lawyer who pleaded guilty to crimes related to the Milberg Weiss case. On the opposite end of the Golden State-bar respectability spectrum, but no less colorful: Judge Alex Kozinski,…
Monthly Archives: October 2007
3rd Circuit Upholds FCC on Internet Deregulation
The Legal Intelligencer reported today that the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an FCC decision relieving telephone companies of the obligation to grant competing high speed internet providers access to the companies wires at “non-discriminatory” rates. This is, of course, a major victory for proponents of internet service deregulation. If only Verizon…
Nifong Seeks Reimbursement for Attorneys Fees
The ABA Journal reports that disbarred, discredited and disgraced former Durham District Attorney and former inmate Mike Nifong has formally requested that Durham should either assume his defense in the civil suit that the former Duke lacrosse players have filed, or pay for him to hire counsel. Of course he has. Nifong claims that he…