The Supremes SCOTUS Building's Front Entrance Closed Justices Appear Skeptical Over Petition-Privacy Argument High Court Finds Federal Employees Immune for Medical...
Archive for May, 2010
Daily Opinion Reporter – 9th Circuit
NINTH U.S. CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS Criminal Law and Procedure United States v. Stever The court's preclusion of both the potential defense theory and discovery of government documents that could...
DC Circuit Court Puts SpeechNow Ruling into effect
On Monday, the D.C. Circuit Court, in a case entitled, SpeechNow.org, et al., v. Federal Election Commission, put into effect its March decision on campaign...
Daily Opinion Reporter – California
CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT Labor and Employment Law Runyon v. Board of Trustees of the California State University Public employee need not file a mandamus petition in order to...
Daily Opinion Reporter – 9th Circuit
NINTH U.S. CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS Civil Procedure Rouse v. Law Offices of Rory Clark Court mist find that plaintiff brought the action in bad faith and...
Daily Opinion Reporter – U.S. Supreme Court
Criminal Law and Procedure Renico v. Lett The more general the ruling of the state court, the greater is the deference owed under the Antiterrorism and Effective...
26 Percent Increase In Wiretap Applications
A report by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts shows that there were more than 2,370 applications for wiretaps filed and granted last year in...
Law School Protests Rankings by Boycotting
Al Garcia, the dean of St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami Gardens, Fla., critical of the U.S. News & World Report rankings, decided...
$200 Million Punitive Damage Verdict in Asbestos Case
(LawIllustrated) A Los Angeles jury awarded $200 million in punitive damages and $8.8 million in compensatory damages in an asbestos product liability trial on April...