A quarterly journal published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. on behalf of the American Bar Foundation. Law & Social Inquiry is a multidisciplinary quarterly that publishes original research articles and wide-ranging review essays that contribute to the understanding of sociolegal processes. Law & Social Inquiry’s combination of empirical and…
Below is a message, useful to law librarians and others, from the current Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section. It includes information about new books and some discussion about publication activities within the Section : Message from the Chair: The Criminal Justice Section is comprised of a number of…
A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust Flores-Figueroa v. United States (No. 08-108) Decided: May 4, 2009 Petitioner Flores-Figueroa, a Mexican citizen, gave his employer counterfeit Social Security and alien registration cards containing his name but other people’s identification numbers, he was arrested and charged with two immigration…
April 27 – May 1, 2009 To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. U.S. Supreme Court, April 28, 2009 Cone v. Bell, No. 07-1114 In a capital habeas proceeding, the denial of Petitioner’s habeas petition is reversed where the…
Top Ten Stories of the Week ending May 1, 2009: Law Firms Profits Drop at 12 of 15 Top Firms Apr 30, 2009, 07:11 am CDT Law Schools Number of Students Applying to Law School Jumps 3.8 Percent Apr 29, 2009, 12:22 pm CDT Law Students Summer Associates Advised to…
May 1, 2009. Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust DEAN v. UNITED STATES (No. 08-5274) United States Supreme Court Opinion Decided: April 29, 2009 Petitioner Dean was convicted of conspiring to commit a bank robbery and discharging a firearm during an armed robbery. Because the firearm was “discharged”…
“The Response”, a movie based on an actual transcript of a military tribunal hearing at Guantanamo Bay, has been selected by the American Bar Association (ABA) as the 2009 ABA Silver Gavel Award winner for “drama and literature”. It was made in collaboration with the University of Maryland School of…
United States Supreme Court Decision: April 28, 2009 A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust SYNOPSIS. At trial the State discredited Mr. Cone’s defense that he killed two people while suffering from acute psychosis caused by drug addiction, he was then convicted and sentenced to death. The Tennessee…
Update from the Lexis Alert Service, April 29, 2009. 1. People v. Jackson, 195, 3988/04, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, 2009 NY Slip Op 2450; 874 N.Y.S.2d 908; 2009 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2503, March 31, 2009, Decided, March 31, 2009, Entered, THE LEXIS PAGINATION OF…
In response to litigation brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Obama administration authorized the Justice Department to release four secret legal memoranda used by the Bush administration to justify torture. The memoranda were releasd on April 16, 2009. President Obama also issued a statement, emphasizing that “this…