The Wall Street Journal yesterday ran an op-ed piece by former Solicitor General Ted Olson in which Olson speculates about the possible legal hijinks that could result from a continuing nomination deadlock between Democrat candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. While I disagree with Olson’s implication (unintended, I expect) that the Electoral College system is…
The Federalist Society has posted on its website a very useful and informative feature in which the presidential candidates – the Republican candidates, at least, the Democrats are yet to respond – discuss their views on judicial philosophy and describe what kind of judges they would appoint if elected. I commend this feature to your…
In a decision blasting the parties’ attorneys for “impos[ing] needless burdens on busy courts,” a federal judge in Manhattan has instructed a Hong Kong-based company to pay $21 million it had promised in exchange for shares in a marketing company.Southern District Judge William H. Pauley III said in BrandAid v. Biss, 03 Civ. 5088, that…
So says defense attorney Mark Geragos about the federal investigation into steroid use and distribution that led to the recent indictment of home run king Barry Bonds. As outlined fairly persuasively in this recent article on Reason magazine’s website, Geragos appears to be right. The BALCO case appears to be yet another federal boondoggle in…
Book publisher Judith Regan has filed a lawsuit against her former employer, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., seeking $100 million in damages. The New York Times reports that, among other salacious allegations, Regan claims in her complaint that a News Corp. executive ordered her to lie about her affair with Bernard Kerik, the former, and recently…
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,…
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…
D.C. $54 million pants judge loses job, should be disbarred.
One of Michael Vick’s co-defendants in the dog fighting fiasco pleaded guilty today and is cooperating with the federales, the Associated Press reports. While it is critical not to pre-judge and assume Vick’s guilt – if the Duke case taught us anything it was about the dangers in rushing to jkudgment – this is nonetheless…
You may have noticed that the blog is undergoing some changes. I have been in the process of melding a couple of litigation related blogs together, so as to do all of my trial related blogging in one place. Over the next week or so I will be trying to clean up the mess that…
