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  • Legal Times

    Suddenly People Are Eager to Threaten Suit Over Their Names

    By William W. Bedsworth | February 19, 2007

    My full name is William Wiley Bedsworth II. That is technically erroneous in terms of naming rules. I am technically not a "second." Because I was given the same name as my father, the r

  • Legal Times

    Cut Waste, Fraud, Abuse

    By Stephen M. Lilienthal | December 25, 2006

    The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's platform, "A New Direction for America," vows to "restore the budget discipline

  • Legal Times

    Try, Try Again

    By Robert L. Weinberg | February 16, 2004

    On the closing day of the 2003 session of Parliament, the 800-year-old guarantee against double jeopardy was repealed in England. The promise that a defendant, once acquitted of

  • Legal Times

    It's Their Turn

    By Gregory Stuart Smith | February 27, 2006

    Suddenly, the sleepy Crime Victims' Rights Act has awoken with a vengeance. A

  • Legal Times

    Brain Freeze?

    By William W. Bedsworth | August 14, 2006

    Inexplicably lost in all the heated scientific debate over global warming has been the most conclusive evidence of all. For reasons I cannot begin to understand, everyone has focused on

  • Texas Lawyer

    It Doesn't Stay in Vegas

    By Paul Coggins | March 27, 2006

    It's Vegas folklore, a recurrent male fantasy, and a porn clich� (not that I rent those kinds of videos, if the Federal Bureau of Investigation is reading this). The repressed librarian

  • Legal Times

    Anna Nicole's Daughter is No Million-Dollar Baby

    By Horace Cooper | April 9, 2007

    As many in the media await the results of a DNA test to determine the real father of Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter, Dannielynn, some reports have perpetuated a legal myth. Consider

  • Legal Times

    It's Just Bribery as Usual

    By Randall D. Eliason | March 6, 2006

    The January guilty plea by Jack Abramoff has many people in Washington feeling anxious. Lobbyists and law

  • Legal Times

    Striking Out: The BALCO Reporters Shielded a Lying Lawyer. They are No Heroes.

    By Randall D. Eliason | March 19, 2007

    A recent case involving two San Francisco journalists has been widely cited as evidence that we need a federal reporter's shield law. In fact, their story may suggest just the oppos

  • Legal Times

    First, Secure Our Borders

    By Cynthia E. Berry | October 2, 2006

    When my grandparents sailed into New York Harbor and caught their first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty, they made a silent pact with her: "Just give us a chance, and we will make you p

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