Jacob A. Korn, of Seattle, entered a guilty plea in Washington's largest mortgage fraud case. Korn was involved in the scheme that siphoned off millions of dollars from home loans. Joshua Adam Hicks, writing for The Bellevue Reporter, reveals that Korn did not report real-estate transactions that h ...

As detailed in , a state judge "expressing concerns about how Kentucky's execution procedures handle issues of mental retardation and insanity."  Here are more details: this AP article Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd said during a hearing that Kentucky's execution r ...

In one of the 142 posts on the LexBlog Network today, food safety advocate Bill Marler has a strong opinion on the hiring of Stewart Parnell, a peanut industry executive whose processing plants were blamed for an extensive Salmonella outbreak, as a consultant to peanut companies. Also, Jim Walk ...

David P. Kirsh and Paulette Livers bought a two-bath home at 1637 W. Julian St. in Wicker Park from Edward Benido for $385,000 on Aug. 5. Benido paid $100,000 for the property in Jan 2004. The 1,288-square-foot house was built in 1887. Mr. Kirsh is a partner at Berger Schatz Matrimonial and Family L ...

SCOTUS judge and law clerk selection as principal-agent / incomplete contracting problem (Orin Kerr) How to read an academic article (Peter Klein), though what seems missing are decision-rules for when articles should be rejected for a full-read after skimming The Washington Post reports that antit ...

76 year-old Tony Alamo, the Southern preacher accused of taking underage girls across state lines for sex, was convicted and sentenced to 175 years in prison last year. The latest drama to come from Tony Alamo concerns a string of lawsuits that pits former members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministr ...

George E. Allen Chair in Law - David Epstein August 23, 2010 – The University of Richmond School of Law is pleased to welcome Professor David Epstein to the faculty as the newly appointed George E. Allen Chair in Law. An expert in bankruptcy law and an award-winning teacher, Epstein will teach ...

The University of Chicago Law School is undeniably one of the nation's elite training grounds of lawyers. But "elite" might not be good enough for Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein, who seems to want Chicago, his alma mater, running neck-and-neck with the likes of Harvard and Yale.

David G. Post (Temple University School of Law) has posted The Theory of Generativity (Fordham Law Review Vol. 78, No. 6, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper was written in response to a request from the editors...

A new state police effort in Chicago known as a “Combined Corridor Enforcement” will get underway this month in an effort to catch drivers engaging in several common distracted driving actions. According to My Fox Chicago the project will focus on what are known at the “Fatal Five” violations: spee ...