Archive | July, 2007

In 1987, Abdul Haliym (then known as Wayne Frazier) was sentenced to death by an Ohio court for his role in the murders of Marcellus Williams and Joann Richards in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. After exhausting his state law remedies, Haliym filed a federal habeas petition asserting some 20 grounds for relief, all of which were […]

This Wikidedia entry brings back some fond memories of the late, great Action Park of New Jersey. Where else could a fourteen year old ride a go cart at highway speeds? I didn’t know that local doctors referred to it as “Traction Park,” but I’m not surprised. When I went with some friends in 1981, […]

Ed Whelan has a useful summary of the status of judicial nominations to federal appellate courts at NRO’s Bench Memos. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts also has this tabular summary of vacancies.

Given the turmoil in the subprime mortgage market it is inevitable that legislatures and regulators are going to be considering new regulations. One area in which that market certainly could work better would be with respect to the comprehensibility of disclosures to consumers. In that vein I commend to readers and regulators an excellent new […]

University of San Diego lawprof Michael Rappaport follows up his earlier post on his judicial clerkship from hell with an addendum to my suggestions on ways clerkship applicants can identify judges who abuse their clerks: Ilya raises the question of how information about judicial tyrants can be publicized. One possibility is simply to list whenever […]

I blogged about the panel decision here; Howard has the news about the court’s decision to go en banc here. It seems like a strange case to take en banc given how fact-specific it is, but I guess it adds some variety to the docket.

Is there anything wrong with the Ninth Circuit? Anything that splitting the Court would solve? For more on these questions see this post at SCOTUSBlog by Ben Winograd and this post by Ethan Leib on Prawfsblawg.

A New York attorney has filed a class action lawsuit against several Manhattan nightclubs, alleging that by hosting “ladies nights” they are engaged in unlawful gender discrimination. He is seeking a declaratory judgment that the nightclub policies in question constituted “state action” due to their regulation by the state Alcoholic Beverage Division. Such a finding […]

(except, of course, when God forbid that people should ignore demographic data): The Feminist Law Professors blog writes: [TITLE:] Oh for the love of… Exactly what possessed Eugene Volokh to look into the sexual orientation of female law profs whose scholarship gets cited a lot? See his “update” at end of this post and try […]

The Washington Legal Foundation> just put up a Web Seminar this morning on “The Ongoing Saga of Marshall v. Marshall: Beyond the Anna Nicole Headlines, Critical Legal Issues Lurk in Federal Court”; it should now be available at the WLF Web site. Some interesting procedural issues there, plus stuff on bankruptcy and probate — the […]

In response to Eugene’s post below, about law enforcement possession and distribution of contraband, this post from my now-abandoned solo blog might be helpful. (Unfortunately the comments there are down, but you can get the gist of them — and particularly Marty Lederman’s answer — from the update.)   Here’s the key language from Nardone v. […]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (thanks to How Appealing for the pointer): Douglas County District Attorney David McDade violated federal law when he distributed a videotape from a rape and child molestation case to legislators and journalists, the U.S. attorney’s office said Wednesday. U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said federal law prohibited distributing the videotape because it […]

“Frankly, Michael Moore is an example of why the health care system costs so much in this country. He clearly is one of the reasons that we have a very expensive system. I know that from my own personal experience,” said Huckabee, who lost more than 110 pounds and became an avid runner after he […]

Over at SCOTUSblog, Tommy Goldstein speculates about who might be nominated for the next Supreme Court spot if a Democrat wins the White House in 2008. It’s all speculation, of course, but it’s interesting speculation.   UPDATE: I noticed that Judge Diane P. Wood of the 7th Circuit is in Tommy’s full chart of possibilities, but […]

Reason‘s Hit & Run reports on a new Arizona statute (Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-3726) that would limit the use of names and pictures of dead soldiers. The law, which was apparently prompted by outrage over the sale of antiwar T-shirts that contain the names of soldiers killed in Iraq, reads: A. A person shall […]