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Bob Thompson on the PCAOB Case

In Donna Nagy's first post on the PCAOB case, she mentioned being at the Supreme Court with Bob Thompson of Vanderbilt, who is visiting this year at Georgetown.

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Related Topix: Corporate Governance, Law, US News

Wed Dec 09, 2009

WebCPA

Supreme Court Could Prove to Be PCAOB's Undoing

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is facing an uncertain future after several justices on the high court appeared to side with the accounting firm and conservative group that hope to prove the board is unconstitutional.

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Related Topix: Corporate Governance, US News, Law, Sonia Sotomayor

Tue Dec 08, 2009

Clover Herald

Court: Reconsider death sentence for Kindler

The Supreme Court will let lower courts consider reinstating a death sentence for a convicted murderer who twice escaped from prison after being found guilty of killing a man who was planning to testify against him.

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Related Topix: US News, Third Circuit Court of Appeals

Mon Dec 07, 2009

WebCPA

Supreme Court Questions PCAOB's Constitutionality

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, with several justices appearing to take the plaintiffs' side in the case.

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Related Topix: Corporate Governance, Law, US News, US Supreme Court

Mydd.com

Shaping the Judiciary for 50 Years and Beyond

I have written a good deal throughout Barack Obama's tenure in office about the need to focus more on the judiciary, both in absolute numbers and in terms of the attributes of his nominees .

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, George Bush, W., District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Sat Dec 05, 2009

KXMA-TV Dickinson

Justices seem unsure whether Florida homeowners lost anything...

Justices seem unsure whether Florida homeowners lost anything Washington It's a case that could have big implications for coastal communities around the country that are dealing with beach erosion.

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Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, US News

Fri Dec 04, 2009

Bloomberg.com

Beachfront Property Rights May Be Backed by Supreme Court in Erosion Case

The U.S. Supreme Court considered bolstering the rights of oceanfront property owners, as justices questioned a Florida program that protects against erosion by adding sand and creating new strips of public beach.

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Related Topix: US News, Florida, Florida Government, US Supreme Court

Thu Dec 03, 2009

New York Times

Homeowner Rights and Hot Dog Sellers Are Talk of Court

If you are the owner of beachfront property and the state comes along and widens the beach, do you own the new land or does the state? Gary McCracken The line between public and private property has been a sore point in Destin, Fla., after six beachfront homeowners sued over a beach-widening project.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court

Wed Dec 02, 2009

Los Angeles Times

Justices appear sympathetic to beachfront property owners

Reporting from Washington - Hearing arguments today in a Florida beach case, the Supreme Court justices sounded as though they agreed with property owners who said their right to a private beach could not be taken away when the state added new sand to an eroded shoreline.

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Related Topix: US News

Tue Nov 24, 2009

SF Gate

Review: Scalia biography draws on key interviews

"American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia" , by Joan Biskupic: The last time veteran Supreme Court reporter Joan Biskupic wrote a biography of a justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, she promptly retired.

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Related Topix: US News, Entertainment

Sun Nov 22, 2009

The GW Hatchet

All-female panel to preside over moot court

For the first time in the event's history, the GW Law School's annual Van Vleck Moot Court in January will host an all-female panel of judges, law school Dean Frederick Lawrence said last week.

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Related Topix: Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Sonia Sotomayor

Fri Nov 20, 2009

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Sarah Palin is only pretending to be pro-life enough, says American Right to Life

Sarah Palin: pro-life exemplar or poser in lipstick? Sarah Palin, who's monopolizing the airwaves as part of her publicity tour for her new book, Going Rogue , is widely viewed as one of the more pro-life politicians on the current scene.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Sarah Palin, Abortion, W.

Wed Nov 18, 2009

ABA Journal

Invisible Constitution and Missing Pounds Surface at Alito Speech

Perhaps there's something in the water at the U.S. Supreme Court. That's one explanation offered by Above the Law for Justice Samuel A. Alito's new younger and thinner appearance.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court, Blog News

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Legal Times

Alito Praises Fidelity to the Law, Defends Sotomayor

In a speech to the Federalist Society Thursday as part of its annual conference, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr.

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Related Topix: US News, Sonia Sotomayor, Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Sat Nov 14, 2009

U.S. Supreme Court Monitor

Sotomayor Emerges as Frequent -- and Tough ? Questioner

Bryan Stevenson, a superhero in the pantheon of the liberal public interest bar, was standing before the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Pasadena Weekly

A 'Dirty Shame'

As the Right Wing wraps Samuel Alito up in a festive black robe, hoping to sell his Supreme Court appointment for Christmas , celluloid iconoclast John Waters wants nothing more than to revel in the season - boozy familial fisticuffs, consumer despair, goopy cornflake-wreath cookies and all.

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Related Topix: A Dirty Shame, Comedy Movies, Life, Holidays, Christmas, Crime Movies, Female Trouble, Hairspray, Drama Movies, Music!, Musical Movies, John Waters

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Deseret News

2 more in GOP may challenge Bennett

With Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's exit from the U.S. Senate contest, two other Republicans are looking seriously at a race against Sen.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Jason Chaffetz, Sundance Film Festival, Jon Huntsman, Jr., US Governors, US Supreme Court

Tue Nov 10, 2009

CNN

Justices debate life sentences for juveniles

The Supreme Court wrestled in often emotional terms Monday over whether sentencing juvenile criminals to life in prison without parole is "cruel and unusual" punishment, especially when their crime is not murder.

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Related Topix: US News, Prison, Death Penalty

Mon Nov 09, 2009

MSNBC

High court looks at life in prison for juveniles

Joe Sullivan raped an elderly woman when he was 13-years-old and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, US News

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Legal Times

'Justices split on Series'

"Justices split on Series": Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has a report that begins, "He's a right-leaning New Jersey native with a lifelong love of the Phillies.

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Related Topix: US News

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