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Friday, July 31, 2009

“Obama Awards Medal of Freedom to O’Connor”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Posted at 3:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“Bias suit by black US Capitol officers revived”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court on Friday revived a discrimination lawsuit brought by more than 200 black police officers who claim they were mistreated by white supervisors with the U.S. Capitol Police.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

Posted at 3:01 PM by Howard Bashman



“Court Creates Waves in Criminal System; Right to Cross-Examine Expert Witnesses Means Big Changes In Presenting Lab Evidence”: Lawrence Hurley had this article yesterday in The Daily Journal of California.

Posted at 9:37 AM by Howard Bashman



“Porn prosecution fuels debate”: Today at Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has an article that begins, “President Barack Obama’s Justice Department has quietly agreed to move a pornography prosecution out of socially conservative Montana to more urbane New Jersey — fueling perceptions by some attorneys that the new administration is stepping back from the aggressive approach the Bush administration took to prosecuting obscenity.”

Posted at 9:15 AM by Howard Bashman