What happens when: (a) a state attorney general charges that the officers of a financial institution are garden variety fraudsters, while (b) a federal agency whose avowed purpose is to protect the investing public decides that insufficient evidence exists to prove that said officers v ...

Supreme Court Justice David Souter will speak at Harvard University’s spring commencement ceremony. Souter is scheduled to speak on May 27 2010 (the school’s 359th commencement) in the Tercentenary Theatre of Harvard Yard. He was a Rhodes Scholar and earned his law degree from Harvard Law in 1966. S ...

Now, having gotten that out of the way (unbidden), on to a few brief, and probably socially unacceptable, words about a Congressman and Ex-Marine who passed away yesterday: John Murtha. In the interest of time, space, and not prolonging nausea, I won’t delve into this corrupt late Congressman& ...

A few months back, the Student Bar Association at Northwestern University School of Law got its panties in a bunch over inappropriate language and the "unthinking use of stereotypes." Saying that you were "raped" by an exam, for example, was offensive to some on campus, said the SBA. (They preferred ...

Adam Liptak has an excellent piece in the New York Times about . Hopwood, who is now working as a paralegal, got his job with a reference from former Solicitor General Seth Waxman. Shon Hopwood, who transformed himself in Federal prison from a bad bank robber to an excellent jailhouse lawyer ...

Tomorrow, Senator Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund is launching a money bomb for Marco Rubio. You need to understand specifically why it is important that this be a success. DeMint is under massive and sustained attacks from establishment Republicans for daring to challenge the hand pi ...

A Chicago car accident along Interstate 80 resulted in one death on Sunday night. The accident occurred about three miles east of the convergence of I-80 and I-355 in the Chicago suburb of Mokena, IL. The Chicago area car crash claimed the life of a 57 year-old University Park man. According to repo ...

By John Christoffersen, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Authorities launched a criminal investigation Monday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they couldn’t rule out negligence. The powerful explosion blew apa ...

Yesterday the FAA published it's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("ANPRM") titled New Pilot Certification Requirements for Air Carrier Operations which I discussed in my February 4, 2010 post. According to the ANPRM, "[t]he purpose of this notice is to gather information on whether current el ...

Segal v. St. John's University, (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept.) A swim team member could not prevail on negligent hiring and supervision claims regarding her coach's training methods. Allegedly negligent actions of a university swim team coach were within the scope of his employment, thus defeating negligen ...