New U.S. Attorney in New Jersey Is Sworn In
New York Times - 2 hours 1 minutes agoPaul J. Fishman would probably have been installed in the position a decade ago had Al Gore won the presidency.
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Biros Died in About 10 Minutes
WKBN 27 Youngstown - Wed Dec 9, 3:12 pm ETOhio made history in September when an execution was botched so badly the governor called it off. The state made history again Tuesday, executing an inmate with just one drug for the first time in the United States.
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Constitution as Talmud
Forward - Wed Dec 9, 12:27 pm ETSeth Lipsky says that while he was writing his new book about the U.S. Constitution, one of his children suggested he design it like the Talmud, with text in the middle and commentary all around.
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Ohio becomes first state to execute inmate with one-drug injection
The Ironton Tribune - Wed Dec 9, 12:01 pm ETLUCASVILLE (AP) — Ohio made history in September when an execution was botched so badly the governor called ...
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Ohio executes inmate with one-drug injection
Zanesville Times Recorder - Wed Dec 9, 9:27 am ETLUCASVILLE -- An Ohio killer was put to death in an efficient 10 minutes Tuesday in the first U.S. execution to use a single drug injection instead of the standard three-chemical combination that has come under legal attack because it can cause excruciating pain.
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Veterans Fight to Save Another Memorial From Being Torn Down
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 7:00 am ETNinth Circuit Court Hears Case on Mount Soledad Cross
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US inmate executed with one-drug injection
Cape Cod Times - Wed Dec 9, 6:28 am ETLUCASVILLE, Ohio — A convicted killer was put to death in an efficient 10 minutes Tuesday in the first US execution to use a single drug injection instead of the standard three-chemical combination that has come under legal attack because it can...
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U.S. Supreme Court takes up "Honest Services" statute
The Saratogian - Wed Dec 9, 5:15 am ETAfter former Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno was convicted of two felonies of defrauding New York citizens of his "honest services" as an elected official, the nation’s highest court heard arguments on the legality of that very same statute.
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Bruno banks on overturn of ‘services’ law
The Troy Record - Wed Dec 9, 4:14 am ETDave CanfieldThe Record
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Supreme Court says law vague in Weyhrauch case
KTUU Anchorage - Wed Dec 9, 3:38 am ETThe U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether the law under which former state Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch was charged-- a federal mail and wire fraud provision-- was unconstitutionally vague.
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High Court Justices Take Aim at 'Honest Services' Law
Law.com via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 9, 3:02 am ETU.S. Supreme Court justices of all stripes appeared sharply critical on Tuesday of the federal law that makes it a crime to "deprive another of honest services," leaving the often-used prosecutorial tool in serious doubt.
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High Court: Vague law may free Conrad Black
New York Post - Wed Dec 9, 1:58 am ETConrad Black's ego could swell even larger if he succeeds as the convict who opened the cells of some of the most notorious white-collar criminals jailed in the past decade. The imprisoned former publisher, who still sits in the British House of L...
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Weyhrauch lawyers optimistic after high court hearing
Anchorage Daily News - Wed Dec 9, 1:45 am ETOne of the attorneys urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down an anti-corruption statute told the justices on Tuesday that the law used in the case against a former Alaska lawmaker is "vague, amorphous," and "open-ended."
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Ohio Executes Inmate With 1-Drug Lethal Injection
WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul - Tue Dec 8, 10:50 pm ETOhio has executed a killer through the first U.S. lethal injection using a single drug, a longer but supposedly less painful method than previous executions that required three drugs. Kenneth Biros was pronounced dead at 11:47 a.m. Tuesday, about 43 minutes after he entered the death house at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.
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Supreme Court rules against Philly killer, who might now face death sentence
Philadelphia Daily News - Tue Dec 8, 10:20 pm ETJoseph Kindler, a notorious Northeast Philadelphia man convicted of kidnapping and bashing an accomplice with a baseball bat and drowning him in 1982, may die by injection after all.
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U.S. Supreme Court rules against Mohawk in attorney-client privilege case
The Dalton Daily Citizen - Tue Dec 8, 9:20 pm ETThe U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday that a federal judge’s decision releasing documents created by Mohawk Industries’ lawyer could not be immediately appealed. It was Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s first opinion as a Supreme Court justice.
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Court Rules Immigrants Tax Records Are Private
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Supreme Court Hears Sarb-Ox Auditing Board Case
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Cornell University: Supreme Court Decisions
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ALVAREZ, ANITA v. SMITH, CHERMANE, ET AL.. Decided 12/08/2009
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UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. v. BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE. Decided 12/08/2009
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MOHAWK INDUSTRIES, INC. v. CARPENTER, NORMAN. Decided 12/08/2009
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BEARD, SEC., PA DOC, ET AL. v. KINDLER, JOSEPH J.. Decided 12/08/2009
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MICHIGAN v. FISHER. Decided 12/07/2009
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