Posted in Uncategorized, tagged summer judicial internship, 4th Amendment on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
The NY Times has an article today about the suppression of evidence in criminal trials based on police officers’ violation of a suspect’s Fourth amendment rights. I did not realize this before reading the article, but the US is the only country in the world that excludes all evidence that a suspect can show was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged copyright, RNC on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
The RNC is trying to stop CafePress.com’s customers from designing t-shirts that use the trademarked “Official Elephant Logo” and the acronym “GOP.” (Public Citizen’s blog and Politico). Most of the “infringing” material, however, appears to be in support of the GOP. Interestingly, the commentators agree that claims against the pro-GOP material actually have a better chance of suceeding [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged economy on July 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ll admit it. I’m thoroughly confused about the whole economic meltdown that is apparently happening all around me. I don’t have a car, I don’t own a house, and I don’t invest in the stock market, so I’m immune, at least directly, to most of the craziness. But when I read about people in California waiting [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged George Mason, law school, plagiarism on July 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The Washington Post is reporting on a plagiarizing law prof who the White House recently nominated to be a federal judge. The George Mason prof, Michael O’Neill (BYU-Yale), claims that his use of materials without attribution was inadvertent and the result of carelessly copying and pasting from his notes. Regardless of whether the plagiarism was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged NBA, Oklahoma City, Seattle Supersonics on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
The city of Seattle’s suit against the Seattle Supersonics basketball team was settled last week. After waiting for Judge Marsha Pechman to issue her ruling, it was announced that the two sides had reached a settlement. Clay Bennett, the leader of the ownership group that owns the Sonics, will pay the city of Seattle $45 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged GW Law on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From the portal:
This month, The George Washington University Law School became the first law school to participate in the Law Office Climate Challenge, an initiative created by the American Bar Association (ABA) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promote environmental sustainability…. GW’s Law School is meeting the challenge by participating in the “Best Practices [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged SCOTUS on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
This is old news, but in a legal error worthy of an overwhelmed first-year law student, there was a significant goof in the Supreme Court’s decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana, the decision holding that the death penalty for raping a child is unconstitutional. As part of its argument, the Court argued that the death penalty is becoming increasingly rare, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged clerkships, SCOTUS on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sua Sponte joins the chorus in congratulating recent GW grad Jonathan Bond on his clerkship with Justice Scalia. Apparently he is the fifth GW grad in the past six years to win one of the 37 coveted SCOTUS clerkships. From what I’ve read so far, in addition to being a very good human being, Bond [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged DC v. Heller, Second Amendment on June 26, 2008 | 9 Comments »
In case you hadn’t already heard, SCOTUS released their opinion in DC v. Heller today, (unsurprisingly) striking down DC’s handgun ban as unconstitutional. You can find the opinion and a ton of analysis over at SCOTUSblog. As you can imagine, the law blogs are afire, so check out the links on the right for more.
So [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged DOJ on June 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The NYTimes reports: “Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used ‘political or ideological’ factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.”
From a quick skim of the report, it seems that the DOJ changed [...]
