“Skilling testifies he wasn’t aware, would’ve called FBI; Line by line, ex-CEO details his objections to charges, accusers”: Mary Flood has this article in today’s edition of The Houston Chronicle.
The New York Times today contains articles headlined “Ex-Enron Chief Defends Shift of Contracts” and “Enron Prosecutors Aim to Rattle, Not Be Rattled.”
The Washington Post contains an article headlined “His Personality Parade; Former Enron CEO Skilling’s Character Is on the Stand, And He’s Emotional, Assertive and Downright Wonky.”
The Los Angeles Times reports that “Skilling Speaks of Ties to Lay; Enron’s ex-CEO says he and his codefendant made a ‘good team’; Prosecutors may try to get one to undermine the other in court.”
USA Today reports that “Skilling says he misjudged Fastow; Calls creation of LJM deal a ‘horrible idea.’”
And The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Skilling tells his Enron story; On the witness stand in his own defense, the former CEO cites his ‘shock’ at first reports of problems.”
Available online from National Public Radio: This evening’s broadcast of “All Things Considered” contained a segment entitled “An Indignant Moussaoui Testifies at Sentencing.”
Today’s broadcast of “Talk of the Nation” contained a segment entitled “Lawyers Argue to Spare Moussaoui’s Life.”
And today’s broadcast of “Day to Day” contained a segment entitled “Moussaoui Testifies in Sentencing Phase.”
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Available online from law.com: Tony Mauro has an article headlined “Grapes of Wrath at the High Court; Fee dispute in wine industry case embroils Kirkland’s Kenneth Starr and former Stanford law dean Kathleen Sullivan.”
And in other news, “Washingtonienne Blogger Loses Lawyer.”
“Judge Decries Rigid U.S. Immigration Laws”: The Associated Press provides this report. My earlier coverage is here.
“Moussaoui: ‘No Regret, No Remorse.'” The Associated Press provides this report.
Payback is … an obstacle to mootness: Today the majority on a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reverses the dismissal on mootness grounds of a taxpayers’ establishment clause challenge to a grant of money by the Secretary of Education to the University of Notre Dame to be used for a program called Alliance for Catholic Education. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner wrote the majority opinion, in which Circuit Judge Terence T. Evans joined. Circuit Judge Diane S. Sykes dissented, writing that she would affirm the district court’s dismissal for mootness.
“Top court says governor’s office may withhold internal documents from public”: The Columbus Dispatch provides a news update that begins, “Bob Taft and future Ohio governors can withhold internal memoranda and communications from the public under a new exception to the state’s open-records law, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled this morning.”
And The Associated Press reports that “Court Gives Ohio Gov. Partial Victory.”
You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Ohio at this link.
On today’s broadcast of NPR‘s “Morning Edition“: The broadcast contained segments entitled “Moussaoui Lawyers Begin Arguing for Life Sentence” and “Sept. 11 Events Dramatized on Big Screen” (RealPlayer required).
“Final Struggles on 9/11 Plane Fill Courtroom”: Neil A. Lewis has this article today in The New York Times.
The Washington Post reports today that “At Trial, Flight 93 Myth Finally Becomes Reality.”
The Los Angeles Times contains an article headlined “Chaos in Flight 93’s Cockpit; Jurors in Moussaoui’s sentencing trial hear the pilots’ anguished pleas, passengers fighting back — and hijackers’ cries of ‘Allah is the greatest!’”
USA Today reports that “Jurors hear 9/11 cockpit battle; Flight 93 audio rivets court at Moussaoui trial.”
The Sacramento Bee reports that “Jurors hear final struggle of Flight 93; Moussaoui trial plays cockpit tape of jet that crashed Sept. 11.”
The Richmond Times-Dispatch contains articles headlined “Moussaoui defense gets its turn; His star witness might be Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber” and “Flight 93 tape shows heroics amid horror; Moussaoui jurors riveted by voices of hijackers, passengers on plane that crashed on 9/11.”
The San Francisco Chronicle contains an article headlined “United pilot’s widow defends crew’s role in 9/11; Former flight attendant has been waiting 4 1/2 years to tell of Flight 93’s final minutes.”
And in The Christian Science Monitor, Warren Richey has an article headlined “Testimony from 9/11 victims: How much is fair? In Moussaoui’s trial, it can help jurors grasp the full impact of 9/11, say some; Opponents say it encourages jurors to rely on emotion.”
“State Proposes Using Device, Not Doctors, in Execution”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.
And The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina reports today that “Prisons offer machine as monitor; Officials hope a judge’s order concerning lethal injection will be satisfied.”
“Court refuses suit on partners”: Today in The Sacramento Bee, legal affairs writer Claire Cooper has an article that begins, “For the second time in less than a year, the California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to consider a challenge to the state’s domestic partners law.”
“Libby Lawyers Say Bush’s Acts a Trial Issue”: Josh Gerstein of The New York Sun provides this news update.
“Moussaoui Lashes Out at Defense Lawyers”: The Associated Press provides this report.
Programming notes: In connection with my day job, this morning I have a meeting in Philadelphia related to a potential new appellate case. Additional posts will appear here later today.
And one week from today, on Thursday, April 20, 2006, Legal Affairs magazine will cease to be this blog’s online host. This blog’s new online host, as of that date, will be American Lawyer Media’s Law.com. I’ll post the specific new Law.com address for this blog as that date draws near.
“Terrorists’ Web Chatter Shows Concern About Internet Privacy; Groups Advise Members on Anonymity, Avoiding Intercepts”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.
“Why the ‘Political Question Doctrine’ Shouldn’t Necessarily Prevent Courts From Asking Whether a Spending Bill Actually Passed Congress”: Vikram David Amar has this essay today online at FindLaw.
“Raich Still Fighting for Medi-Pot Rights”: This article appears in the current issue of The Austin Chronicle.
“Scalia slams judicial activism in UConn speech”: The New Haven Register contains this article today.
And The Hartford Courant today contains an article headlined “Interpretations Of Justice Scalia.”
