Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret Pending National Security Review :: Holds Law Does Not Protect Identities of Lobbyists :: EFF v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (pdf)

In a post yesterday (Is Obama “Everything”?) I referred to the sense in which Democrats do seem to regard Obama as The Messiah, as in “the Alpha and the Omega” from Revelation 22:13. (Otherwise how could they argue that Republican opposition to their 2700 page health care bill means they oppose “eve ...

The subject of antitrust exemptions has been an oft-discussed topic here at TOTM (see, e.g. here and here).  In the latter of those two links I was somewhat critical of the DOJ for taking a neutral stance on the insurance industry exemption, which has now become rather wrapped up in the health care ...

A pretty interesting conversation, via Michael Dorf. Copyright © 2010 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digit ...

Screw the Cite-Check. Pass the Cheetos. Why do things the hard way? It's not like lawyering is demanding. In February's edition of InsideCounsel Magazine (formerly Corporate Legal Times), see Associate Editor Lauren Williamson's cover article, "Mind the Gap: Generation Y Attorneys Enter the Work ...

By Sarah Fendrick -- On Monday and Tuesday, February 8-9, 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was closed due to weather. As a result of the closing, the USPTO will consider each of Monday and Tuesday, February 8-9, 2010 to be a "Federal holiday within the District of Columbia" under 35 U.S.C. ...

Governor Rendell has nominated Lewis Wood Wetzel, Esquire of Dallas and Joseph Van Jura, Esquire of Kingston to fill the open judgeships on the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. It is hoped that these nominees will be whisked through the nomination process quickly so they can assist with the bac ...

A 75-year old Murrieta man lost his life in a Riverside County auto accident as the vehicle he was driving crashed into a center median of the road along the 41000 block of California Oaks Road in Murrieta. This fatal car accident took place on February 7, 2010, around 6:30 a.m. The deceased, Eugen ...

The autopsy of a 27-year old San Diego woman who was struck by multiple vehicles while standing on Interstate 805 in National City is scheduled for today. This very tragic auto accident took place around 12:30 a.m. on Northbound I-805 on February 7, 2010. The victim, whose name has been withheld p ...

Because of predicted severe weather conditions, the Rutgers-Newark campus, including the Law Library, will be closed on Wednesday February 10th.