The NTSB recently rejected both an airman's and the FAA's appeals and affirmed an administrative law judge's ("ALJ") decision suspending the airman's airline transport ("ATP") certificate for 100 days. The case, Administrator v. Hackshaw, arose from an incident in which the airman was operating a C ...

Alabama Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard). Arizona Mary Beth Mitchell (Deputy Maricopa County Legal Defender), Sexually Violent Predator Proceedings in Arizona. This paper is not publicly available. Brooklyn Norman Poser (Brooklyn), Lord Mansfield: Religion, Slavery, and Commerce. This paper is ...

Jill Lawless, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON – Amy Winehouse admits it went beyond seasonal spirit. The soul diva pleaded guilty Wednesday to assaulting a theatre manager who asked her to leave a family Christmas show starring Mickey Rooney because she had too much to drink. The singer, who ...

Ex-Pennsylvania state court judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan who were part of the "Kids for Cash" scandal were granted partial judicial immunity in some of the charges against them in civil lawsuits. We wrote about the "Kids for Cash" scandal in our Common Law Blog here. The judges both ...

That enormous, new, 6,000-passenger cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas, that you've been reading so much about, will begin sailing an odd itinerary this coming May. Every other week throughout the year, it will devote three of its six days of weekly operation to simply wandering at sea, without stopping ...

Last week, The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation (SJBF) announced that its National Advisory Board has expanded to become an International Advisory Board with the addition of experts from across the globe. The SJBF also announced the appointment of Dr. Stephanie Peabody, Visiting Scholar at Harvard Un ...

O presidente do Supremo Tribunal Federal, ministro Gilmar Mendes, afirmou, nesta quarta-feira (18), em entrevista a jornalistas, que o caso da extradição do italiano Cesare Battisti, julgado em Plenário pela Corte, é um caso complexo, atípico, que deve envolver outros desdobramentos. Para o ministr ...

Depois de autorizar, por cinco votos a quatro, a Extradição (Ext 1085) de Cesare Battisti para a Itália, em um julgamento que durou três dias de longos debates, o Plenário do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) decidiu, no início da noite desta quarta-feira (18), que a última palavra sobre a entrega ou n ...

O julgamento do pedido de extradição do italiano Cesare Battisti será retomado para o voto de desempate do ministro-presidente, Gilmar Mendes.O julgamento foi interrompido na semana passsada após empate por 4 votos a 4. Votaram a favor da extradição o relator Cezar Peluso e os ministros Ricardo Lewa ...

Australian actor Mel Gibson and his girlfriend, Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva, have welcomed a baby girl named Lucia into the world. While Lucia is Gibson’s eighth child, it is the couple’s first child together. Gibson has seven children with his former wife, Robyn Gibson. They divorced in Ap ...