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Saturday, March 11, 2006

“Supreme Court Smackdown!” Adam Liptak will have this article in the Week in Review section of Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 10:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“One year after shootings, how much safer is courthouse?” This article will appear Sunday in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Exactly one year ago today, a trial judge, a court reporter, and a sheriff’s deputy were shot to death at Atlanta’s Fulton County Courthouse.

Posted at 8:35 PM by Howard Bashman



In Sunday’s edition of The Chicago Tribune: Tomorrow’s newspaper will contain an article headlined “Internet blows CIA cover: It’s easy to track America’s covert operatives; All you need to know is how to navigate the Internet.”

And the newspaper will also contain related articles headlined “A shift from real firms to false fronts“; “Plame’s identity, if truly a secret, was thinly veiled“; “Data mining easy as using credit card“; and “The murder that sparked Identities Protection Act.”

Posted at 8:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge doles out NU settlement; Splits $16 million payment among 6 in Wheeler family”: Today’s edition of The Chicago Tribune contains an article that begins, “Nearly five years ago, the family of Northwestern football player Rashidi Wheeler sued the university for negligence after he collapsed and died during a preseason football drill.”

And The Chicago Sun-Times today contains an article headlined “NU athlete’s mom: Settlement ‘insult.’

Posted at 11:30 AM by Howard Bashman



“Judge Issues Secret Ruling in Case of 2 at Mosque”: The New York Times today contains an article that begins, “A federal judge issued a highly unusual classified ruling yesterday, denying a motion for dismissal of a case against two leaders of an Albany mosque who are accused of laundering money in a federal terrorism sting operation.”

Posted at 11:25 AM by Howard Bashman



“6-Year Terms in O.C. Sex Assault; The judge sees a lack of remorse in the three young men who taped an attack on a girl”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

And The Orange County Register today contains articles headlined “Haidl, co-defendants get 6 years each; Judge Francisco BriseƱo cites an apparent lack of remorse until today for the sentence he imposed” and “For some observers, six years isn’t enough; A trio of O.C. college students argue that Gregory Haidl, Kyle Nachreiner and Keith Spann got off easy,” along with an essay by columnist Frank Mickadeit entitled “Trial’s key figures emotionally spent.”

Posted at 11:23 AM by Howard Bashman



In commentary from today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times: Law Professor Samuel W. Buell has an op-ed entitled “Abortion law’s criminal loophole: Who would go to jail in South Dakota? Not women, and it’s all because of politics.”

And columnist Meghan Daum has an op-ed entitled “Middle school confidential” that begins, “Last Monday, the California Supreme Court struck down a state law that required anyone who’d had consensual oral sex with 16- or 17-year-olds to register as a sex offender.”

Posted at 8:20 AM by Howard Bashman



“Former Top Bush Aide Accused of Md. Thefts; Refund Scam Netted $5,000, Police Say”: The Washington Post today contains a front page article that begins, “Claude A. Allen, who resigned last month as President Bush’s top domestic policy adviser, was arrested this week in Montgomery County for allegedly swindling Target and Hecht’s stores out of more than $5,000 in a refund scheme, police said.”

The New York Times reports today that “Former White House Aide Is Arrested on Theft Charges.”

The Baltimore Sun reports that “Ex-aide to Bush charged in thefts; Allen, once top adviser, accused of retail scheme.”

And The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that “Former Bush adviser faces theft charges.”

Previously, Claude A. Allen had been a nominee to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Update: A press release from the Montgomery County, Maryland Department of Police is entitled “Gaithersburg Man Arrested for Theft Scheme” (via National Review Online’s “The Corner“).

Posted at 8:10 AM by Howard Bashman