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53 min ago | Philip Brooks' Patent Infringement Up...

Bilski Case's Pittsburgh Connection

From an article by Anya Litvak in the October 30, 2009 print edition of the Pittsburgh Business Times : On Nov.

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5 hrs ago | Sentencing Law and Policy

Amicus filing in SCOTUS habeas cases creating controversy among death penalty crowd

This story from the Boston Globe , which is headlined "Death penalty foes rip Coakley for signing brief," highlights that the politics of the death penalty in Massachusetts in quite different than in other parts of the country.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty, US News, Criminal Defense Law, Law

10 hrs ago | Pittsburgh Tribune

Attorneys of Indiana County man accused of killing child say he's mentally retarded

Attorneys for a 19-year-old Indiana County man charged in the beating death of his girlfriend's 19-month-old son in 2008 say a psychologist's examination of their client proves he is mentally retarded and therefore ineligible for the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Death Penalty, Indiana, US News

14 hrs ago | Free Republic

Maryland Judges Uphold State Anti-Handgun Law

I've written recently about how courts in New Jersey and Illinois have concluded that the Second Amendment poses no obstacle to local governments enacting stringent anti-gun laws.

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19 hrs ago | Kentucky.com

Supreme Court wades into mutual fund fee disparity

The U.S. Supreme Court is taking a close look at a question individual investors have long asked about their mutual funds, but the courts have largely ignored: Why am I getting charged twice as much as big institutional clients? Sure enough, the money-management services that different classes of fund clients get aren't the same.

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Related Topix: US News, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Journal News

Delaware to appeal Bonistall murder case to U.S. Supreme Court

WILMINGTON, Del. - State prosecutors will ask the nation's highest court to restore the conviction and death sentence for a man accused of the 2005 rape and murder of a University of Delaware sophomore from White Plains.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, US News, Wilmington, DE, Criminal Defense Law, Law, University of Delaware

Christian Science Monitor

Supreme Court appears split on tackling rogue prosecutors

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday took up the difficult issue of what to do about unscrupulous prosecutors willing to induce false testimony and hide exculpatory evidence to convict innocent defendants.

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Related Topix: US News, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Samuel Alito

WSYX

Pa. jury spares execution in Ohio student slayings

A southwestern Pennsylvania jury has decided against the death penalty for a former Pittsburgh man accused of fatally shooting two Ohio college students in 1999.

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Death Penalty, US News

KTKZ-AM Sacramento

Can Washington Make You Buy Health Insurance?

Yes, yes, says White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Congress has the power to make everyone buy health insurance.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, US News, Opinion

KMOV-TV Saint Louis

Mo. court weighs death sentence in triple killing

The attorney for a Missouri man sentenced to death for a 1992 killing urged the state Supreme Court on Thursday to spare his client, saying he is mentally disabled.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty, US News

Thu Nov 05, 2009

WBKO-TV Bowling Green

Sex Offender Law Controversy Continues

Attorney General Jack Conway is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend the Kentucky Supreme Court's recent ruling which loosened restrictions on where convicted sex offenders may live.

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Ann Arbor.com

Developer Robert Aikens gives $10 million to U-M Law School expansion

The University of Michigan has received a $10 million gift from a suburban Detroit developer and his wife toward the $102 million expansion of its law school .

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Des Moines Register

U.S. Supreme Court hears Iowa case about prosecutors

The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed worried that allowing a bad prosecutor to be sued by a wrongfully convicted person might chill other prosecutions - even if they're doing their jobs correctly and honestly.

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Politik Ditto

DC Sniper John Allen Muhammad Seeks To Halt Execution

Attorneys for sniper John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the terrifying 2002 Washington area shooting spree, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to halt their client's execution, saying he was paranoid and delusional during his trial.

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Arizona Daily Star

Employer-sanctions foes heartened by US scrutiny

PHOENIX a ' One of the key attorneys fighting Arizona's employer-sanctions law is hoping the Obama administration keeps politics out of its legal opinions.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Arizona, Arizona Government, US News, Illegal Immigration

Sentencing Law and Policy

Effective coverage of the SCOTUS Seale dodge

The New York Times has this effective piece , headlined "Court Declines Case of Klansmen in a 64 Slayings," and The BLT has this effective entry , headlined "Supreme Court Rejects 5th Circuit Plea in Kidnap Case," discussing the notable action from the Supreme Court in a high-profile criminal case.

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Related Topix: US News, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Prison

Wed Nov 04, 2009

ChannelOne

Gay leaders blame TV ads, Obama for loss in Maine

Stunned and angry, national gay rights leaders Wednesday blamed scare-mongering ads - and President Barack Obama's lack of engagement - for a bitter election setback in Maine that could alter the dynamics for both sides in the gay-marriage debate.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

MyFoxDFW

Bible at Center of TX Execution Case

One witness who saw 64-year-old Joe Collins being beaten over the head by a rifle-swinging assailant compared it to someone getting pummeled with an ax or a golf club.

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Related Topix: Nacogdoches, TX, US News, Houston, TX, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

NBC Connecticut

Mr. Blumenthal Goes to Washington

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal wants the states and local residents to have the power to fight high electricity rates, and that took him to Washington on Tuesday to argue his point before the United States Supreme Court .

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Indiana Law Blog

Courts - State of Indiana co-authors amicus brief in Melendez-Diaz challenge

Following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that abruptly required crime-lab analysts to start testifying at criminal trials, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller's office has co-authored a friend-of-the court brief asking that the decision be limited or even overturned.

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