, whcih is headlined "Okla. panel OKs death sentence for child rapists," spotlights that some legislators continue to want to resist the Supreme Court's 2008 ruling declaring unconstitutional Louisiana's capital child rape law.  Here are the basics: This new local article Ken ...

Put some bleachers out in the sun And have it out on Highway 61. --R. Zimmerman John Dawson Winter III, b. Beaumont, Texas (1944- ). Note to "no guts no gospel" weenies born after 1965: Johnny Winter is a straight-up Boomer Hero. Listening to him could make you tougher. Make you ready ...

The Washington Legal Foundation has just released an interesting paper by Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, co-authored with HLS student Joshua D. Branson and Shook, Hardy & Bacon attorney Tristan L. Duncan, arguing that public nuisance lawsuits against utilities for their alleged contributi ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has squandered over $101,000 tax dollars on “in-flight services” on congressional delegations since 2008, according to new documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch. Expenditures on Pelosi-led CODEL ...

The Obama Administration is at work on re-evaluating and overhauling the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, more often known as No Child Left Behind. With some bi-partisan support in Congress, the Administration is looking at changing several key provisions of the education law. The Wa ...

A Winston-Salem man says he is going to sue GlaxoSmithKline for North Carolina personal injuries that he claims he sustained from using Poligrip. Johnny Howell, 53, says he started exhibiting signs of zinc poisoning in 2004, 15 years after he started using the denture cream. It wasn’t until last ye ...

The Obama Administration is at work on re-evaluating and overhauling the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, more often known as No Child Left Behind. With some bi-partisan support in Congress, the Administration is looking at changing several key provisions of the education law. The Wa ...

The New England Law Review hosts a symposium today on Tax Exempt Organizations and the State: New Conditions on Exempt Status: Panel #1: Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOTs) Evelyen Brody (Chicago-Kent) Ronald Chester (New England) (moderator) Darryll Jones (Florida A&M) Eric Lustig (New England) Pane ...

Via DougJ, Norm Ornstein touts the accomplishments of 2009: There seems to be little to endear citizens to their legislature or to the president trying to influence it. It's too bad because [. . .] this Democratic Congress is on a path to become one of the most productive since the Great Society ...

Sundays are great days for having an opinion. And if you read this blog, it's an informed opinion. Not everyone does. NY Times editorial: The economy grew at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009. But well over half of that growth came from large adjustments to business inv ...