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Senate committee approves bill tightening court oversight over gov't surveillance
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to strengthen court oversight of government surveillance while protecting telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for tapping Americans' phones and computers without court approval.Suspect in Afghanistan Shooting Is Removed From N.Y. Courtroom After Outburst
New York federal Judge Richard Berman has walked a fine line between maintaining order and allowing Aafia Siddiqui to stay in the courtroom despite her repeated outbursts -- even though prosecutors and her own lawyers wanted her excluded. However, on Tuesday, Berman ordered the Pakistani-born Siddiqui removed after she rose and shouted, "You're lying!" at the government's first witness in her trial for allegedly grabbing a rifle and attempting to shoot U.S. military and FBI agents in an Afghani police compound in 2008.Sue them, jail them, make them pay for meltdown
Sotomayor doesn't break at hearing
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor weathered a third day of her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, frustrating Republican senators' attempts to probe her controversial past speeches and her views on abortion and other hot-button issues.Appearing more relaxed than on Tuesday, Sotomayor also spoke about her years as a private practitioner and as a prosecutor in New York City.In Academia, Kagan Wrote Far Less Than Peers
President Barack Obama last week presented U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as one of the nation's "foremost legal minds." But is the former Harvard Law dean actually scholar-lite? Some academic and political commentators questioned her slim body of scholarship given her 14 years in academia. It is not just the number of her scholarly articles -- essentially four major and three lesser ones -- that bothers Kagan skeptics, but the lack of any discernible personal opinions on the issues addressed.View more book results for the query "White Case"
Colleagues recall Judge Ruffin's wit
Friends and former colleagues of John H. "Jack" Ruffin Jr., the former chief judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia who died suddenly on Friday at age 75, remembered him as a civil rights warrior with a dry sense of humor and a ready laugh.Chief Judge M. Yvette Miller said Ruffin died late Friday night at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta.Cravath Hires Tax Partner, Its First Lateral in Decades
Cravath Swaine & Moore has elected a lateral partner, its first in more than six decades.Government Shutdown's Effects To Be Far-Reaching
The looming federal government shutdown will affect more than just federal employees.Residents question how off-duty deputy who killed 6 in Wisconsin passed background check
CRANDON, Wis. AP - The residents of a remote northern Wisconsin community struggled to understand Monday how a sheriff's deputy who killed six young people and critically wounded another could have become a law enforcement officer.Tyler Peterson, 20, was shot to death after opening fire early Sunday on a group of students and recent graduates who had gathered for pizza and movies during their high school's homecoming weekend.Trending Stories
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