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AP via Yahoo! News - 38 minutes ago
The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what may have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.
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New York Times - 2 hours 9 minutes ago
In light of what science tells us about the capacity for adolescents to change, it makes no sense to sentence them to life without the possibility of parole.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 13, 6:22 pm ET
Ohio waded into uncharted territory Friday when it announced plans to switch from the usual three-drug cocktail used to execute inmates to a one-drug method that death penalty opponents praised as a step forward — albeit one that has apparently never been tried on prisoners.
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Fox News - Fri Nov 13, 8:27 pm ET
Ohio waded into uncharted territory Friday when it announced plans to switch from the usual three-drug cocktail used to execute inmates to a one-drug method that death penalty opponents praised as a step forward.
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SCOTUSblog - Fri Nov 13, 10:07 am ET
The discussion of Monday’s arguments in Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida has continued through the end of the week. At Concurring Opinions, Alex Kreit comments on the arguments, highlighting in particular Chief Justice Roberts’s interest in the role that a juvenile offender’s age could play in Eighth Amendment proportionality review. Kreit speculates that [...]
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New York Times - Thu Nov 12, 11:31 pm ET
The giant drug company said it would pull 1,400 jobs out of New London, Conn., eight years after its arrival set off a landmark battle over eminent domain.
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Leelanau Enterprise - Sat Nov 14, 2:09 am ET
Ruth Gilmer, Eleana Reyes and Alva Martinez have a few things in common, including their Hispanic heritage. Gilmer and her husband Ted Gilmer live in Kasson Township. She works at the Traverse City office of Rehmann Robson, an accounting firm, as an as read more
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New York Times - Thu Nov 12, 9:16 pm ET
The news stirred up resentment among local residents who see Pfizer as a carpetbagger that took public money, in the form of big tax breaks, and now wants to run.
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University of Wisconsin - Madison - Fri Nov 13, 10:53 am ET
One of the most memorable moments of Cecelia Klingele's yearlong U.S. Supreme Court clerkship wasn't crafting an opinion on a particular case or listening to an oral argument.
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Daily Princetonian - Thu Nov 12, 12:21 am ET
The more people know about the U.S. Supreme Court, the less they like it, correspondents who cover the judicial body explained to a packed Robertson Hall on Wednesday. The panel discussion, which C-SPAN also broadcasted live, was moderated by sociology professor Paul Starr. “Full Court Press: The Supreme Court, the Media, and Public Understanding” included New Yorker writer and CNN contributor ...
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Law.com - Thu Nov 12, 11:55 am ET
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary committee launched the Federalist Society's annual convention Thursday morning with a call to oppose President Barack Obama's most liberal nominees for the federal bench. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said that the confirmation process this summer of Justice Sonia Sotomayor showed that conservatives have a superior approach to interpreting the law. He ...
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Linux Today - Wed Nov 11, 3:08 am ET
Groklaw: "I know you are dying to know what happened today in oral argument in In Re Bilski before the US Supreme Court. Here is the transcript [PDF] so you can read it for yourself and not have to depend on me or any journalist."
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Law.com via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Nov 11, 3:02 am ET
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that asks: For purposes of diversity jurisdiction, where is a company's principal place of business? The answer will be crucial in determining whether a corporation can be sued in federal court or in plaintiff-friendly state courts.
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Nasdaq - Tue Nov 10, 1:32 pm ET
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Supreme Court appeared poised on Tuesday to overrule a test for determining a corporation's principal place of business that effectively locates a majority of national companies in California.
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Freedom Forum Online - Thu Nov 12, 12:25 pm ET
Public colleges and universities must be vigilant and do more to protect academic freedom, particularly in the wake of court decisions limiting the free-expression rights of public employees, says the American Association of University Professors.
