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  • Legal Times

    Tie Goes to the Official

    By Roy T. Englert Jr. and Eric J. Feigin | February 23, 2009

    In the span of less than a week in late January, the Supreme Court reversed a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and vacated two 9th Circuit decisions, in

  • Legal Times

    High Price Wars

    By Sean F.X. Boland | June 12, 2006

    The House of Representatives recently passed legislation (the Federal Energy Price Protection Act of

  • Legal Times

    What Would Abe Do?

    By Ronald A. Berutti | February 19, 2007

    Today, the federal government is closed. Thus, there should be fewer telephone calls, filings may wait another day, and a moment or two will be available to reflect on the one lawyer tra

  • Legal Times

    Still Trapped On Torture

    By Pamela B. Stuart | April 20, 2009

    Ever since the February 2007 report of the International Com­mit­tee of the Red Cross about the treatment of 14 “high-value” detainees in CIA custody was publis

  • Legal Times

    Will the Real VP Please Step Forward?

    By Adam J. White | October 27, 2008

    The vice president occupies a perennially curious office. In 1920, it was held in such low regard that a candidate for vice president—Franklin Roosevelt, no less—felt t

  • Legal Times

    Letters to the Editor: School Disorder; BCRA Case

    December 22, 2003

    SCHOOL DISORDER NOT COURT'S FAULTTo the editor:I am writing a letter in response to Stuart Taylor Jr.'s Nov. 17, 2003, commentary "Lawless in Class" [Page 58]. Cit

  • The American Lawyer

    Settling for a Scapegoat in Fighting Corporate Fraud

    By Frank O. Bowman III | January 8, 2007

    I've met Jeffrey Skilling only once. I shook hands with him across the counsel table in a Houston federal courtroom just before the sentencing hearing that sent him to prison for 24

  • Legal Times

    Don't Blame the Lawyer

    By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey | February 23, 2009

    President Barack Obama’s selection of David Ogden as deputy attorney general has drawn fire from conservative family values groups, including the influential Family Research

  • Legal Times

    Our Enemies Aren't Soldiers

    By Douglas W. Kmiec | September 11, 2006

    If I could change one thing about the way America is fighting terrorism, it would be the seeming inability to grasp the difference between lawful and unlawful combatants. Failing to keep

  • Legal Times

    We Give Money to Charities for a Reason

    By William Robertson | April 23, 2007

    Here's some sobering news for U.S. charities: While more than 90 percent of Americans donated money to charity in the past year, just one in 10 "strongly agrees that charitable organizat

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