Chris Powell

July 29, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

No one is going to accuse the University of Connecticut of trying to conceal sexual misconduct.

By Chris Powell

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April 16, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Chase T. Rogers will be confirmed by the General Assembly as chief justice of Connecticut's Supreme Court, but it won't be because she was so impressive at the Judiciary Committee's recent hearing on her nomination. To the contrary, Rogers, an Appellate Court judge, was so calculatingly vacuous that an ordinary citizen might have wondered how she was rising to the top.

By CHRIS POWELL

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January 15, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Even as Connecticut's acting chief justice, David M. Borden, is pushing the state's court system into more openness, his chief court administrator, Judge William J. Lavery, is arguing for continuing the judiciary's unaccountability.

By CHRIS POWELL

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June 11, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Hardly anyone at the state Capitol wants to make a judgment about state Sen. Louis C. DeLuca, the Senate Republican minority leader, in regard to his pleading guilty last week to a state misdemeanor charge of conspiracy to threaten. Indeed, hardly anyone at the Capitol is willing even to talk about the DeLuca case.

By CHRIS POWELL

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July 13, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Though the ashes may still be warm, a few conclusions can be drawn from last week's kidnapping of a woman - Hartford attorney Nancy Tyler - by her former husband and the siege that resulted as he held her at their house in South Windsor. First, madness can explode anywhere, even in the most serene suburban neighborhood like the one where the siege happened, and such explosions become more likely as the economy worsens and people come under more stress.

By CHRIS POWELL

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July 30, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

As they consider whether state government should respond to the atrocity in Cheshire, maybe the first thing Connecticut's elected officials should do is stop pretending that the state has a "three strikes" law.

By CHRIS POWELL

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January 29, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

As electricity prices in Connecticut have risen sharply, many elected officials, particularly state legislators and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, have declared that the state's experiment with deregulation is a failure and a disaster. They say Connecticut should go back to the old system of rate regulation, under which electric utility companies both generated and delivered electricity.

By CHRIS POWELL

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September 25, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

H.L. Mencken may have had politicians like U.S. Rep. Nancy Johnson in mind when he remarked that "the whole aim of politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with a series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

By CHRIS POWELL

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March 12, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In her appointments Gov. Jodi Rell seems to give less consideration to politics and personal connections than any Connecticut governor in modern times. That seems to be how Chase T. Rogers of New Canaan came to be nominated for chief justice.

By CHRIS POWELL

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July 16, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The 15-year-old runaway girl from Bloomfield who was missing for almost a year would probably have been found much sooner if Connecticut, like 35 other states, had a law requiring parental or judicial notification when minors have abortions.

By CHRIS POWELL

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