Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption and One Woman’s Fight to Restore Justice to All by Sunny Schwartz, with David Boodell Scribner, 204 pp., $24.00 Reviewed by Helen Epstein in a forthcoming issue of The New York Review of Books (Volume 56 Number 9 June 11,…
By Bryan A. Garner Foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “Bryan Garner has collected over a hundred of his finest essays on writing, language, and style in this substantial anthology. The book includes sections on legal language and lexicography, how to write successfully as a professional, and concludes with chapters…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. May 26, 2009. CIVIL RIGHTS, CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, GOVERNMENT LAW, LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW Haywood v. Drown, No. 07-10374 In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action by a prisoner, judgment for…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. May 17-22, 2009. U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, May 19, 2009 US v. Paret-Ruiz , No. 06-2709 Conviction for conspiracy to import cocaine with intent to distribute is reversed and remanded…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. May 17-22, 2009. U.S. Supreme Court, May 18, 2009 Ashcroft v. Iqbal, No. 07-1015 In an action alleging that Plaintiff, who was arrested on suspicion of September-11th terrorist activity, was unconstitutionally detained,…
Update from the Lexis Alert Service, May 21, 2009:. 1. People v. Bolar, 599, 5414/06, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, 2009 NY Slip Op 3946; 2009 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3791, May 19, 2009, Decided, May 19, 2009, Entered, THE LEXIS PAGINATION OF THIS DOCUMENT IS…
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Brian R. Leiter the John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values at the University of Chicago has conducted a poll to determine who people think were the most important legal thinkers in american law in the past century. There were…
In Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Online News, Keith Perine writes: “…Obama, speaking with the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as a backdrop, defended his order to close the detainee prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and outlined several tenets of his own counterterrorism strategy. The president tried…