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Investors.com – Another Radical Judge.  Interesting and troubling  editorial about a candidate for the 7th  Circuit Court of Appeals.

Supreme Court Justices debate, draw laughs at Tucson event | www.azstarnet.com ®. Interesting brief article discussing Justices Scalia and Breyer’s debate on how to interpret a constitution.

One of the biggest economic concerns in Florida continues to be the decreased prices in the real property markets, both residential and more recently commercial.  Any time this type of financial upheaval occurs, important legal cases will result, although sometime the maxim that difficult facts can result in bad law holds true.  The classic example […]

The Trial |Judge Issued his ruling to day on the Sansom official misconduct charges, and dismissed them, leaving only a perjury charge based on Sansom stating that the College had requested the increase in funds and the state contradicting that testimony.Sansom Order Dismissing Official Misconduct.  As we previously noted, the arguments to dismiss were not […]

Well, the Supreme Court issued its order list  of cases it granted Cert in last week after its first long conference, and Frazier was not among the cases Cert was granted in, but as of today Cert has now been denied.  For those of you not familiar with this case, a case I had the […]

Well, the First DCA issued its opinion today in the NCAA Public records case, and no real surprises, given the oral argument. The court held the records were public because they were received by a public agency.  The court  did specify that it was not deciding whether the requested records were protected under FERPA if […]

Today the First DCA  issued an opinion in Oken v. Williams, 1D08-3398, granting a petition for cert in case that argued that the trial court had failed to follow the law when denying a motion to dismiss for failure to comply with presuit notice in a medical malpractice action.  Basically, the plaintiff was attempting to […]

222 years later, constitution scholars find little to celebrate in founding document – News. Amazing headline from Harvard Law Record, but explains much about current elite constitutional thought, and it is worth reading from that perspective.  Thanks to How Appealing for identifying this gem.

Well, the Oral Argument was held this morning at the First DCA, and based on the questions from the Panel, it does not look good for the NCAA .   The panel did ask some questions on the FERPA, Public Records exemption issue, but the discussion seemed to be somewhat sidetracked on the fact the documents […]

Annals of Law: Bench Press : The New Yorker.  Are Obama’s Judges really liberals,? by Jeffrey Toobin.  Interesting article not so much for the topic it discusses, but for its discussion of what liberal and conservative means, and noting how the language of judicial confirmations now presumes a need for judges to use conservative descriptions […]