Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was reindicted on corruption charges by a federal grand jury. According to Reuters, prosecutors reindicted Blagojevich because the constitutionality of the law underpinning some of Blagojevich's original charges -- honest services fraud -- has been challen ...

The New Jersey bill which would have moved the state toward making gay marriage legal in the Garden State was rejected. CNN reported that the bill passed through the state's Senate Judiciary Committee last month, but that the bill needed 21 votes in order to continue its route towards passage. The c ...

The NTSB today published a Final Rule that amends its regulations concerning notification and reporting requirements for aircraft accidents or incidents. The Final Rule codifies the amendments that were originally proposed in an October 7, 2008 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The NTSB believes the ...

Bel0w, Rakesh Kilaru of Stanford Law School recaps Weyhrauch v. United States, one of the two “honest services” cases heard by the Court on Tuesday. Rakesh’s preview of the case can be read here, and his recap joins Lyle’s earlier analysis of the argument, available here. Che ...

Below, Stanford Law School’s Rakesh Kilaru previews Weyhrauch v. United States, one of two cases to be heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 8. Check the Weyhrauch v. United States (08-1196) SCOTUSwiki page for additional updates. On Tuesday, December 8, 2009, the Supreme Court will ...

Oy this Tiger Woods thing is a mess.As always, the cover up is worse than the crime. A sports figure possibly having an affair and getting into a domestic dispute with his wife is really not that big a deal.But when you add deception, power, privilege, and a perception that a rich star is being (or ...

A man named Willis Willis is not happy, and not for the name-related reason you might think. Willis, who is unemployed, has been playing the same set of lottery numbers at the Lucky Food Store in Grand Prairie, Texas for about 10 years. On May 29, Willis' ship came in, or at least it should have, wh ...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A 25-year-old Dallas convenience store clerk is accused of conning a senior citizen out of her winning lottery ticket and claiming the $1-million prize before fleeing to his native Nepal, say authorities. Pankaj Joshi was indicted in September on one count of claiming a lott ...

National Coming Out Day 2009 (October 11th) found itself preceded by a speech by President Obama and commemorated by a solidarity march on Capitol Hill involving tens of thousands of gay rights supporters---making it a big weekend to come out, be out, and demand to be equal. California Governor Arn ...

Guest Blogger: Ashish S. Joshi, Lorandos & Associates (Ann Arbor, MI / Washington, DC) Moderator: Gerald B. Lefcourt Panelists: Susan Brune, Hon. Lewis Kaplan, Walter Ricciardi, Ira Sorkin This was one of the most anticipated panels of the program as...