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December 08, 2003 |

News in Brief

Chester Co. Judge Tapped for Federal Bench Washington The White House has nominated a Chester County trial court judge to replace a longtime federal judge who died last spring. Chester County Common Pleas Judge Juan R. Sanchez, a native ...
16 minute read
February 25, 2013 |

Amicus opponents of Section 5 attack on several fronts

If the opponents of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act are confident of victory in the case of Shelby County v. Holder, they are not sitting back or acting complacent. The briefing supporting Shelby County amounts to a full-throated, aggressive attack against the law on several fronts — but also an attack on Congress for ignoring the Supreme Court's recent admonitions to update and repair the statute.
7 minute read
November 09, 2005 |

Drexel Names Inaugural Staff

Philadelphia's Drexel University received 500 applications for its law school's inaugural faculty. The school has released the names of six of the nine professors -- Jennifer Rosato, Barry Furrow, Chapin Cimino Cody, David S. Cohen and Dana Remus Irwin -- who will help build the school's curriculum from the ground up. The six, who have not all met yet, will attend the Nov. 15 groundbreaking of the new law school building.
2 minute read
February 10, 2011 |

Pop Quiz, Lawyers: Are You Culturally Competent?

I recently attended a program on cultural competence for lawyers only to confirm a fear: It turns out, I am not very culturally competent. Apparently, I am not alone, and many lawyers are not as savvy as we should be when it comes to interacting with people from different cultures.
6 minute read
July 14, 2009 |

Sotomayor welcomed with praise, criticism

Answering criticisms that her heritage and gender will influence her judging, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday that her judicial philosophy is "simple: fidelity to the law." She spoke on the first day of a historic confirmation hearing that is likely to result in her becoming the first Hispanic justice-and third woman-on the nation's highest court.
5 minute read
August 05, 2013 |

Circuit Declines to Upset Parolee's Gun Conviction

Finding that a gun was properly used as evidence even though the arrest was illegal under state law, the Second Circuit has refused to overturn the conviction of a man who was arrested at a routine traffic checkpoint while violating his parole.
4 minute read
October 15, 2012 |

Newly Created Docket Takes Aim At Guns

A new docket has been created to handle gun-related felony cases in the New Britain Judicial District, but that doesn't mean the state Judicial Branch plans to go around creating specialized courts at will.
5 minute read
December 28, 2005 |

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August 23, 2013 |

Circuit Suppresses Guns, Denying 'Inevitable' Discovery

Guns found in an illegal search of a man's hotel room should have been suppressed, a federal appeals court has ruled, even though police planned to arrest the man as soon as he left the room and the motel's owner testified that he would have turned anything left behind to police.
4 minute read

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