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January 14, 2003 |

Felons Have Allies in Vote-Ban Case

A group of former law enforcement and U.S. Department of Justice officials have filed an amicus brief urging the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to restore voting rights to felons. The case challenges the validity of a Florida law that strips felons of voting rights even after they have finished serving time and rejoined society. Rejected on summary judgment last year, the case will be argued before the 11th Circuit in March.
3 minute read
April 22, 2002 |

Private Man: Moments With Justice Byron White

Dennis J. HutchinsonTo those who knew Byron R. White, who died last week two months before his 85th birthday, the obituary accounts of what The Associated Press called his storybook life were accurate without being true. The facts were all there-multiple valedictorianships, Kennedys, independent voting on the Supreme Court-but in many respects, the man was missing.
7 minute read
April 20, 2000 |

Market Makers

Where is the site to swap corporate legal services? In England. In early February, a company called FirstLAW Limited opened for business claiming to be "the first and only e-market for live trading in the buying and selling of legal services."
7 minute read
January 24, 2001 |

Novel View of Election Money

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says there will be "blood all over the floor of the Senate" if opponents block his campaign finance reform bill. This means the return of a familiar debate involving questions of preventing corruption and restricting speech. Law Professor John Hasnas says these issues are beside the point; and the relevant question is whether legislative mandates are necessary in the first place.
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May 19, 2003 |

Bill Targets Class Action Lawyer Fees

Republican Sens. Jon Kyl and John Cornyn have asked the Senate to apply a tax code provision drafted after the collapse of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's empire to limit contingency fees earned by lawyers in suits resulting in settlements or judgments of $100 million or more. Kyl called it "the tobacco-tax lawyers' amendment." While that bid failed last week, the idea is still very much alive.
4 minute read
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October 14, 2009 |

SC board pardons 2 black men executed 94 years ago

COLUMBIA, S.C. AP - South Carolina pardoned syndicated radio host Tom Joyner's great-uncles Thursday, nearly a century after they were sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran.Officials believe the two men are the first in the state to be posthumously pardoned in a capital murder case.
4 minute read
August 11, 2003 |

Many Candidates, Few Lawyers

Relatively few lawyers, even in Washington, specialize in the arcane area of election law -- and that many of those in the field will work only for candidates of one political party.
6 minute read
May 04, 2000 |

Part-time Work, Full-time Lives

In a profession that prizes workoholics, a handful of attorneys carve a comfy niche for themselves in customized work arrangements with their firms. Not surprisingly, a lot of them are working moms. How do the economics pan out for their firms, and can lawyers really free themselves from the "tyranny of the billable hour"?
9 minute read
May 24, 2004 |

David Boies Cleared by Florida Bar of Ethics Charge

The Florida Supreme Court has dismissed an ethics complaint against prominent Microsoft litigator David Boies, who was charged with violating Florida bar rules by paying more than $400,000 to help his law firm's chief financial officer pursue a contract dispute in Palm Beach County Circuit Court.
4 minute read
May 04, 1999 |

Sneak Attack

A California congressman slipped an anti-Delaware provision into a federal bankruptcy bill that would threaten Delaware's thriving bankruptcy practice by sharply paring away the corporate reorganizations that could be filed in the state. Delaware's influential congressional delegation is already riding to the rescue and expected to carry the day before the bill becomes law. The provision arose last month during the House Judiciary Committee's bill-drafting session on revising the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
5 minute read

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