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$12 million = Billions in damages
American Enterprise Institute's Ted Frank provides this excellent WSJ ($) op-ed on the stakes involved in the upcoming Supreme Court decision in Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta, which could seriously erode the Central Bank rule against holding financial institutions secondarily liable for...
In a split decision, the winner is the Texas GOP. For now.
The Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision yesterday (earlier posts here) ordering congressional districts in south Texas redrawn because a 2003 redistricting map orchestrated by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was designed to disenfranchise Hispanic voters so that vulnerable...
Hope for Jamie Olis?
This previous post highlighted the egregiously disingenuous approach that the Justice Department has taken on the market loss issue in order to promote an absurdly long prison sentence for former mid-level Dynegy executive, Jamie Olis. Now, the Third Circuit in...
How many Texans have been on the Supreme Court?
With the confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito, Jr. coming to a close this week, it's time to dust off a good Supreme Court trivia question that you can use to stump your colleagues: How many...
A lot about Alito
Most of us don't have time to watch much of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on President Bush's nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court, so here are a few items to help you catch up...
SCOTUS agrees to consider Texas redistricting cases
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review the controversial 2003 redrawing of Texas congressional districts that Democratic Party officials claim was unconstitutional because it disenfranchised Democratic voters and was improperly designed primarily to ensure the Republican Party's control of...
A lot about Alito
The ever-alert Tom Mighell passes along this handy AskSam database of over 350 of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's published opinions, which can be viewed either online or after a download. Between this database and this previously-noted University of Michigan...
All about Alito
As it did with Harriett Miers, the University of Michigan Law Library has put together this top notch site that includes biographical information, downloadable opinions, and almost everything else you need to know about Supreme Court Justice nominee, Samuel A....
Criminalizing everything
George Melloan, the deputy editor, international, of The Wall Street Journal, has recently written two columns (here and here) in which he has addressed a common topic on this blog -- i.e., the increasing criminalization in American society of ordinary...
It's Alito
Third Circuit Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. is President Bush's new nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Larry Ribstein provides an overview of Judge Alito's decisions in business cases, Orin Kerr believes that Judge Alito will...
NY Times on candidates to replace Chief Justice Rehnquist
This NY Times article does a good job of summarizing the situation surrounding the increasingly likely retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who is suffering from thyroid cancer and the effects of the treatment for the condition....
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