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December 13, 2001 | Law.com

Pentagon's Law Man

For a lawyer in the eye of a political hurricane, Jim Haynes has kept a low profile. As the Pentagon's general counsel, he must fill in the details of the administration's controversial order authorizing military tribunals for trying suspected terrorists. Haynes -- who served as GC of the Army in the first Bush administration -- is well-situated to handle the sensitive tasks demanded of a wartime legal counselor.
9 minute read
September 14, 2009 | Law.com

Lawyers' Sanctions Lifted, but 3rd Circuit Judge Delivers Lecture

Be careful what you ask for, the old saying goes, because you just might get it. That aphorism was perhaps ringing all too true recently for a group of Philadelphia lawyers who had been hoping an appeals court would overturn a federal judge's 2007 decision that sanctioned and sharply chastised them for using litigation tactics that, in the judge's view, were designed to "frustrate" and "impede" the discovery process.
11 minute read
May 18, 2005 | Law.com

3rd Circuit: Habeas Judge Has Power to Raise SOL Defense

Judges of the 3rd Circuit have split sharply on a pair of habeas corpus petitions that raise fundamental questions about trial judges' power to raise a statute of limitations defense. In holding that judges may exercise their discretion to raise a statute of limitations issue sua sponte "at any point in the proceedings" -- even if prosecutors have waived the defense -- the 3rd Circuit decision solidifies a circuit split and makes it more likely that the issue will be addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
7 minute read
December 02, 2003 | New York Law Journal

In the Matter of Stanley Friedenburg v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Application of Wetlands Regulations on Waterfront Real Property Rises to the Level of a Taking
27 minute read
February 16, 2010 | National Law Journal

Talk Grows of 2 Openings at High Court

Stories raising the possibility that U.S. Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg may leave the Court at roughly the same time have suddenly become part of the Washington conversation, already fueling nightmare scenarios of dragged-out battles between a weakened President Barack Obama and a fiercely contentious Senate over possible replacements. But one theory argues that, in a strange way, two vacancies at once might actually help Obama push through at least one liberal nominee.
7 minute read
March 08, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Kinder, Gentler Attorney General

Concerns about terrorism, law enforcement and politics aside, this is what people really want to know about the new attorney general, Alberto Gonzales:
9 minute read
July 21, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Home Sweet Home

A growing number of Texas lawyers who jumped at opportunities in Washington have returned to Texas, some of them taking a pay cut in the process.
16 minute read
November 02, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

No Doubt Where Alito Stands

An analysis of Samuel Alito Jr.'s opinions leaves no doubt that the 55-year-old judge President Bush nominated on Monday to replace centrist Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has a record to satisfy Bush's constituents on the right. On abortion, employee and criminal defendant rights, First Amendment and business issues, Alito has landed, consistently, on the conservative side.
8 minute read
January 27, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

A First Monday First

The first Monday in October this fall will be an unusual one. The U.S. Supreme Court will commence its fall term that day, Oct. 6, as dictated by law and tradition, but it will not hear oral arguments. The reason? Yom Kippur falls on that day, and the court last week announced that no arguments would be held "so that Yom Kippur may be observed."
9 minute read
September 25, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Forensic Clemency: Using Science to Bend the Arc of Justice

In his Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin, director of legal information services at the New York State Defenders Association, writes that scientific truth continues to take a back seat to legal necessity. Yet, relief from forensic injustice can be fashioned in the forge of executive clemency or tempered there for judicial review and legislative action.
14 minute read

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