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Supreme Court nixes oral argument on police interrogation case
Last month, the Supreme Court expressed interest in re-examining Michigan v. Jackson, a major 1986 ruling on the Sixth Amendment right to counsel. On Monday, the Court indicated it wants to rule on the issue without hearing oral argument. The Court had asked for briefing on whether Jackson should be overturned in the context of Montejo v. Louisiana, a case argued in January. It's rare but not unprecedented for the Court to ask for supplemental briefing on a related issue in a pending case.Six Heller partners land at Sidley Austin
Six Heller Ehrman partners have landed at Sidley Austin, continuing the migration of attorneys from the dissolving firm to its competitors. Sara Brody, Marie Fiala, Michael Rugen and Carol Lynn Thompson will join Sidley's San Francisco office, while Stan Berman will join the Washington office. Yang Ing Loong will be a partner in Sidley's Hong Kong office and also will maintain a presence in the Singapore office.
Federal Judge Won't Recognize Employers' 'Self-Critical Analysis Privilege'
Employers cannot invoke the so-called "self-critical analysis privilege" in refusing to turn over internal documents in an employment discrimination case, a federal judge has ruled. Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Paul S. Diamond found that the majority of federal circuits "have refused to recognize or apply the self-critical analysis privilege," and that while the 3rd Circuit has not yet done so, it has hinted that it would do the same. The ruling vacates an order Diamond handed down in May 2005.
Federal Court Headed for Paperless Filing System
Signing court documents in ink and delivering hard copies to a clerk may soon go the way of the quill pen. Judges in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania are pushing the Electronic Case Filing system into further acceptance, with paperless procedures due in January. Under the amended rules, attorneys will have to submit filings on disk and complete a form authorizing an electronic signature code. Thirty-two district courts around the country participate in the ECF system.
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French court hands Noriega 7-year prison term
A Paris court on Wednesday convicted former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega of laundering drug money in France in the 1980s and ordered him to spend seven years behind bars - a sentence that comes on top of his two decades already spent in a U.S. prison.
Court: No liability for motel owner
The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday ruled 4�????3 that a motel doesn't have a legal duty to check on a guest's welfare at his worried wife's request.The decision likely means the end to the wrongful death action brought by the wife of Sidney Rasnick, a 77-year-old Texas man who on March 13, 2006, was found in distress on the floor of his motel room in Jesup, about 65 miles southwest of Savannah.