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How Judges Think
1 day ago ago from California Commons - The Press Democrat - Santa Rosa, CA
by california.commons As a Circuit Judge with the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, Richard A. Posner is experienced as a judge, teacher and author of more than thirty books. Among his most recent is How Judges Think , which offers unique perspectives on how cases are decided by judges and justices. He argues that with clear legal rules applicable, most ...
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11 hours ago ago from Pescadero Memories
Story by John Vonderlin Email John: benloudman@sbcglobal.net Hi June, Five days later, on November 19th, 1873, an article appeared in The Daily Alta, headlined, The Pescadero Murder, The Prisoners Discharged Killing Held to Be Justified. This shocking decision in the Harvey Green murder case and the town of Pescadero's reaction to it, was in the article's text as follows: Redwood November 18th. The examination of the ...
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14 hours ago ago from RightsForMothers.com
The U. S. Department of Justice report, Profile of Intimate Partner Violence Cases in Large Urban Counties, (October 2009) by Erica L. Smith and Donald J. Farole, Jr., Ph.D., was recently released. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend a discussion with the authors on this report, accompanied by a judge from one of the sixteen urban counties that participated in the study. Some of the highlighted information is below, with links to ...
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16 hours ago ago from Feminist Law Professors
Earlier this week, Feminist Law Prof Caroline Bettinger-Lopez (Columbia) summarized the Ciudad Juarez case (see here and here ) for members of the Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers' Network . Here is Professor Bettinger-Lopez's e-mail (reprinted with permission): Dear BHRH Network Members, As you know, on December 10, 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued an important decision (in Spanish) in the Campo Algodonero ...
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Effort Begun to Abolish the Election of Judges
11 hours ago ago from The New York Times
A group of judges, political officials and lawyers, led by the retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor , has begun a campaign to persuade states to choose judges on the basis of merit, rather than their ability to win an election. As a state legislator in the 1970s, Justice O'Connor helped Arizona create a merit selection system for judges. She is now chairwoman of the O'Connor Judicial Selection Initiative, announced this month ...
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