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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.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.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 TakingTalk 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.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: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.Trending Stories
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