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On Monday, November 16, we attended an interesting talk by Judge Gerard Lynch , formerly of the Southern District of New York and now on the Second Circuit. He spoke before the Regis Bar Association, a group of lawyers and law...
Mojave cross (courtesy ACLU of Southern California) WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Despite reports of a divided court, an indication of how the court may rule in the Mojave case comes from the decision in last term's Pleasant...
A White House state dinner is an affair like no other because the sartorial demands are so precise, the politics both superficial and opaque and the entire display of pomp, circumstance and exclusivity precisely the kind of...
By John Keenan WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER The day after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right to burn the American flag, Justice Antonin Scalia, part of the majority, wanted his breakfast. “I don't need that,” said Scalia, a...
The winter months are upon us, and as our thoughts turn to the joy of the holidays, I hope we also remember to think of those in the greatest need this time of year – those struggling to feed their families.
Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.
From (what remains of) The Advocate : On the concept of interpreting the Constitution, Scalia said he embraces the school of thought that the document should be interpreted as its authors intended. Its authors? You mean the...
Two tenacious Washington lawyers have the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in their sights—and they just might take it down Jones Day's Carvin and Francisco relish cases that could limit government Stephen Voss From the marbled corridors of...
The fight over God's secular title. And if you answered "Jesus," you might have been trying to filibuster David Hamilton, Barack Obama's first judicial nominee. Bosma, Hamilton determined that those who pray in the Indiana...
This case involves a man named Steven Skoien, who previously had been convicted of misdemeanor domestic battery. It's true that Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion said: "Although we do not undertake an exhaustive...
