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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

“New Orleans DA loses race-firing appeal”: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, “The New Orleans district attorney lost his fight Wednesday against a ruling that said he violated the civil rights of dozens of white employees when he fired them after taking office in 2003 and replaced them with black workers.”

And The Times-Picayune of New Orleans provides a news update headlined “Jury verdict upheld in Jordan bias case.”

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

Posted at 11:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Ninth Circuit Judge Marsha S. Berzon Receives ABA’s Margaret Brent Award”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued has issued this news release.

Posted at 8:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals court may let NSA lawsuits proceed; A 9th U.S. Circuit Court panel peppers government attorneys with sharp questions and suggests that two cases alleging illegal surveillance should be allowed to continue”: Declan McCullagh of c|net News.com provides this report.

Posted at 8:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“What Happened in Norfolk: Four Navy men who confessed to a 1997 rape and murder now say those confessions were false; The only version of events less plausible than four innocent men signing false confessions could be the state’s theory of how they committed the crime.” Alan Berlow will have this article (TimesSelect temporary pass-through link) in the August 19, 2007 issue of The New York Times Magazine.

Update: You can now freely access the article at this link.

Posted at 6:00 PM by Howard Bashman



Solicitor General’s Office files amicus brief in support of affirmance in Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.: You can access the amicus brief, filed today in the U.S. Supreme Court, at this link.

Earlier today, WSJ.com’s “Law Blog” had a related post titled “Stoneridge: Let 1000 Amici Bloom!

At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Government supports investment banks.”

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Tony Mauro has a post titled “Suspense on Stoneridge is over.”

Posted at 3:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“How lawyer navigates sea of secrecy in bizarre case; Among the obstacles: responding to a filing he can’t see and writing a brief with none of his notes at hand.” Today in The Los Angeles Times, Henry Weinstein has an article that begins, “Oakland lawyer Jon Eisenberg calls the case of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. George W. Bush the strangest he has ever handled. How strange? Eisenberg was required to write one of his briefs in a windowless government office, without notes or lawbooks, under the watchful eye of two federal security guards. When he got hungry, one of the guards brought him a banana. And when he finished, a security official shredded all his drafts — and even the banana peel, Eisenberg said.”

Posted at 12:27 PM by Howard Bashman