Mark Sherman

December 12, 2005 | Law.com

U.S. citizen Jose Padilla's legal challenge to his three-year stay in a military jail without charges should be dismissed because he now stands accused of a crime, the Justice Department told a federal appeals court Friday. The filing with the 4th Circuit is an attempt by the administration to avoid a Supreme Court showdown over its controversial policy of detaining U.S. terror suspects indefinitely and without charges.

By Mark Sherman

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May 23, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Supreme Court has decided unanimously that a long-running billion-dollar dispute between two defense contractors and the government over a canceled contract for a Navy plane will continue.

By MARK SHERMAN,Associated Press

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June 18, 2007 | National Law Journal

Passengers, like drivers, have a constitutional right to challenge the legality of police decisions to stop cars in which they are traveling, the Supreme Court said Monday.

By Mark Sherman

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June 12, 2008 | Law.com

By Mark Sherman

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May 12, 2008 | Law.com

By Mark Sherman

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November 08, 2007 | Law.com

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said Wednesday she'd do away with electing judges and make prosecutors and defense lawyers interchangeable to improve the U.S. justice system. O'Connor, who has spent much of her retirement defending judicial independence, said judges who run in partisan elections risk being compromised by the campaign cash they must raise. "If I could wave a magic wand ... I would wave it to secure some kind of merit selection of judges across the country," O'Connor said.

By Mark Sherman

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March 29, 2007 | Law.com

Two outsized personalities clashed at the Supreme Court on Wednesday when Justice Antonin Scalia was briefly silenced by a barbed comment from longtime Harvard Law professor and television commentator Arthur Miller. Lawyers who argue at the Court are advised that jokes often fall flat -- but this one left other justices laughing and solicited an "ooh" from spectators. And it wasn't long before Scalia had his say.

By Mark Sherman

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March 01, 2007 | Law.com

The Supreme Court unanimously reinstated a Nevada child molester's conviction Wednesday in a decision that continued the justices' refusal to apply recent rulings on criminal procedure retroactively. The question in the case was whether the Court's 2004 ruling that defendants have the constitutional right to cross-examine witnesses against them would apply to older cases. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the Court, said the 2004 case "did not effect a change of this magnitude."

By Mark Sherman

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June 25, 2008 | Law.com

By Mark Sherman

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May 01, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday gave police officers protection from lawsuits that result from high-speed car chases, ruling against a Georgia teenager who was paralyzed after his car was run off the road.

By Mark Sherman The Associated Press

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