Thomas B Scheffey

April 07, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Connecticut inventor has taken on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and won a victory with broad national repercussions.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

3 minute read

January 28, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Judges spend a lot of time figuring out what legislators meant when they made a law, and many have autopsied lawmaking at its very worst.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

4 minute read

June 18, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Arrested for drunk-driving earlier this year, Fairfield Family Support Magistrate Susan D. Baran is now facing charges that her out-of-court actions violated two canons of the Code of Judicial Conduct.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY and DOUGLAS S. MALAN

3 minute read

March 27, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

When state lawmakers gave cash-strapped municipalities the power to pay fees to private tax collection companies in 1994, it wasn't a bid to make the process kinder and gentler.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

3 minute read

September 17, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Professionals devoted to making the lives of crime victims more bearable gathered Tuesday for an afternoon to help predict what challenges Connecticut's courts will face in the next few years, and identify possible solutions. It's a sign that the Judicial Branch, under newly-appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers, is seeking grass-roots level input as it works ambitiously to buff up a marred public image.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

2 minute read

November 13, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Eastern Connecticut is poised to undergo its second major election law battle in little more than a decade. But whether it will be as epic as the one that dragged out for months after the 1994 race between then-Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Sam Gejdenson and Republican challenger Edward Munster remains to be seen.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

3 minute read

April 14, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Could all the hot air in the Attorney General's Office warm the Supreme Court? The justices will never know.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

4 minute read

June 19, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Supreme Court Justice David M. Borden, addressing the dinner crowd at Connecticut Bar Association's annual meeting June 12, spoke of the botched manipulation of Justice Peter T. Zarella's nomination to head the Judicial Branch as "the elephant in the room" that can't be ignored.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

3 minute read

August 07, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

After North Haven businessman Michael Schiavione paid to have 500 tons of PCB-contaminated soil properly disposed, he might have felt the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would want to give him a medal.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

4 minute read

September 25, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Theresa Sokaitis of Rocky Hill had reason to rejoice when her sister, Rose Bakaysa, won a $500,000 Powerball jackpot on June 20, 2005.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

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