Presidential Signing Statements Undermine Constitutional System of Checks and...
Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School has a worthwhile op-ed piece in the Sunday Chicago Tribune entitled "The Problem With Presidential Signing Statements."
View ArticleFederalist Society Critique of the Ohio Supreme Court
The Federalist Society has posted a critique of the alleged activism exhibited by the Ohio Supreme Court in the years leading up to the November 2004 elections entitled The Ohio Supreme Court: A Court...
View ArticleShould Law Firm Diversity Be a Criterion in the Appointment of Lead Class...
Adam Savett has a post in his blog Lies, Damn Lies & Forward-Looking Statements regarding a recent order from the District of Minnesota requiring counsel seeking appointment as lead class counsel...
View ArticleOhio Court of Appeals Upholds Reduced Punitive Damages Award in Securities...
Adam Savett, author of the excellent blog Lies, Damn Lies and Forward-Looking Statements, has called to our attention this story on the recent decision from the Court of Appeals for Marion County,...
View ArticleFederal Court Rejects Bush Administration's State Secrets Defense in Suit...
In a notable rebuke of the Administration's claim for the exercise of unfettered Executive Branch powers in the interests of national security during wartime, Chief District Judge Vaughn R. Walker...
View ArticleMore on Presidential Signing Statements
Supplementing our July 17 post on Professor Richard Epstein's commentary regarding presidential signing statements, the ACS Blog recently treats the same subject in the wake of President Bush's first...
View ArticleOhio Supreme Court Holds Retired Judges May Not Preside Over Jury Trials,...
On July 12, the Ohio Supreme Court issued its opinion in a widely-followed case involving the referral of cases or submission of issues to retired judges by stipulating parties pursuant to Section...
View ArticlePlaintiffs' Class Action Firm Ordered to Make Financial Disclosure
Plaintiffs' class-action law firm, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, already under fire and under indictment for allegedly paying millions of dollars in incentives to entice clients to become...
View ArticleHouse Financial Services Committee Holds Hearing on H.R. 5491
The Capital Markets, Insurance and Government-Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on June 28, 2006 on H.R. 5491, a bill entitled the "Securities...
View ArticleGamble Succeeds as Ohio Supreme Court Unanimously Holds Part of Ohio's...
Carl and Joy Gamble finally succeeded in stopping the City of Norwood from bulldozing their home to pave the way for a $125 million shopping and office complex, as they and two other homeowners...
View ArticleMore on Presidential Signing Statements: Prof. Tribe Takes Issue with ABA Report
Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe has this thoughtful guest post in Balkinization criticizing the recent Report and Recommendation of the ABA Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements and...
View ArticlePresidential Signing Statements Redux: The Debate Intensifies
Eight distinguished lawyers and law professors who formerly served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel have now weighed in on the debate raging over the legality of President Bush's use...
View ArticleDomestic Spying Program Declared Unconstitutional; Government Plans Appeal to...
In a strongly-worded and broadly-based rebuke of a cornerstone of the Administration's war on terror, U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor today issued an opinion declaring the Terrorist Surveillance...
View ArticleSixth Circuit Requires Disclosure of Attorney Work Product Provided to Expert...
In a ruling of first impression in the Sixth Circuit on whether attorney opinion work product given to expert witnesses is discoverable under Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Court...
View ArticleSixth Circuit Upholds Certification of a State-Wide Express Warranty Class,...
In a Rule 23(b)(3) class action filed in the Southern District of Ohio, the class seeks damages against Ford Motor Company for a defective throttle assembly that allegedly causes the accelerator to...
View ArticleMore on Eminent Domain and Norwood vs. Horney
Our thanks to Jason Harrow of Scotusblog for pointing out Ilya Somin's op-ed piece in Legal Times regarding the status of eminent domain after Kelo and the Ohio Supreme Court's recent decision in...
View ArticleMore on Domestic Spy Program
Lyle Denniston has this post in Scotusblog on the NSA spy program declared unconstitutional last week by Judge Anna Diggs Taylor. Our post on the decision can be found here.Scotusblog also has a...
View ArticleNeither Disgorgement Damages Nor Punitive Damages May be Aggregated to...
After having been away for two months due to a variety of factors (en banc argument in Sixth Circuit, Jewish high holy days, daughter's wedding), we are more than ready to climb back into the saddle...
View ArticleSupreme Court Denies Cert. in Sixth Circuit Case
On October 2, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Case No. 06-38, Detroit Entertainment LLC v. Romanski. A jury found that respondent had been arrested at a casino without probable cause and...
View ArticleSixth Circuit Stays Implementation of Judge Taylor's Order Permanently...
We have previously posted on the August 17 opinion by Judge Anna Diggs Taylor (E.D. Mich.) declaring the NSA's domestic wiretap and surveillance program unconstitutional and in violation of FISA and...
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