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December 05, 2005 |

Crime and More Punishment

A $30 million will contest that reads like a Russian novel acquired a subplot Tuesday when a claimant to the fortune sued to oust the administrator, defrocked Superior Court Judge John Richardson.
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December 20, 1999 |

Battling a Bureacracy Run Amok

Nearly 45 years after it was begun, the impetus for the Security Risk Committee of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia seems to have come from an unusual source. The committee was established in January 1955 to provide legal and investigative help to federal employees who had been branded disloyal or security risks. It was the brainchild not of some firebrand defense lawyer but of the U.S. Navy's general counsel.
7 minute read
February 14, 2006 |

2005 Change in Tort Law Loses at High Court

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June 04, 2003 |

Real Estate Securities

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March 15, 2004 |

Hitting the Wall

Professors Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle discuss how the justices have just reaffirmed special treatment for religion under our Constitution.
7 minute read
March 18, 2013 |

Help Wanted: Who Will Fill 5th Circuit Vacancies?

While President Barack Obama has appointed six U.S. district court judges in Texas, he has yet to place a jurist from the Lone Star State on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
7 minute read
July 03, 2008 |

Attorney Zach Scruggs Sentenced for Role in Judicial Bribery Scandal

Attorney Zach Scruggs was sentenced Wednesday to 14 months in prison and fined $250,000 for not alerting authorities to the bribery scandal that entangled his father, famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard Scruggs. Zach and Dickie Scruggs and a law partner were indicted in November after an associate secretly recorded conversations about a plan to bribe a judge. Prosecutors said the goal was to get a favorable ruling in a dispute over $26.5 million in fees from a settlement of Hurricane Katrina insurance cases.
3 minute read
July 28, 2003 |

Justice Dept. Moves to Halt POW suits against Iraq

The Justice Department has asked a judge to throw out a $959 million judgment levied against Iraq for torturing American prisoners of war in 1991 -- arguing that President Bush has recently granted the country sovereign immunity from actions committed by the Saddam Hussein regime. The move on July 21 surprised lawyers representing 17 former U.S. soldiers and their families and threatens at least two other pending civil cases against Iraq.
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