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Commentary Bainbridge [UCLA]: Don’t Change the Rules for DeLay
Bainbridge [UCLA]: Don’t Change the Rules for DeLay
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 17, 2004 11:34:00 am

Stephen Bainbridge: UCLA Law School:"'House Republicans proposed changing their rules last night to allow members indicted by state grand juries to remain in a leadership post, a move that would benefit Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) in case he is...

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Commentary Ribstein [Illinois]: Eisner’s Testimony
Ribstein [Illinois]: Eisner’s Testimony
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 17, 2004 10:30:00 am

Larry Ribstein, University of Illinois College of Law:"The Disney trial on the hiring and firing of Ovitz continued yesterday with Eisner's direct testimony. As previewed here, Eisner will have to draw a fine line between justifying hiring Ovitz, and justifying...

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Commentary Tokaji [Ohio State]: Provisional Voting Problems
Tokaji [Ohio State]: Provisional Voting Problems
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 16, 2004 04:05:00 pm

Dan Tokaji, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University:"The A.P. has this story summarizing the problems that the states had in implementing provisional voting. It quotes my colleague Ned Foley as suggesting that Congress consider repealing HAVA's provisional voting requirement.My...

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Commentary Henning [Wayne State]: Senate Hearing on Insurance Industry
Henning [Wayne State]: Senate Hearing on Insurance Industry
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 16, 2004 11:18:00 am

Peter Henning, Wayne State University School:"The Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee will be holding a hearing today (Nov. 16) on the state of the insurance industry in light of the...

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Commentary Solomon [Yale]: Confessions of an Unwitting Accessory
Solomon [Yale]: Confessions of an Unwitting Accessory
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 16, 2004 10:29:00 am

Ian Solomon, Yale Law School:"Could we have been so naive? Thousands of the country's most credentialed lawyers flocked to Florida to guarantee a fair election. Did we inadvertently miss an election debacle even greater than that of 2000 and negligently...

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Commentary Crimes of Fallujah and the Continuation of Aggressive War
Crimes of Fallujah and the Continuation of Aggressive War
Jeremiah Lee
November 16, 2004 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego says that the massive US assault on Fallujah is but the latest instance of illegal American aggression in Iraq, undertaken with disregard for international treaties and...

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Commentary Godsey [U. Cincinnati]: AG Nominee Gonzales’ Texas Clemency Memos To Governor Bush
Godsey [U. Cincinnati]: AG Nominee Gonzales’ Texas Clemency Memos To Governor Bush
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 15, 2004 03:46:00 pm

Mark Godsey, University of Cincinnati College of Law:"An article that appeared last year in the Atlantic Monthly about clemency memos written by Alberto R. Gonzales to George Bush while he was Governor of Texas is of renewed importance after Bush...

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Commentary Henning [Wayne State]: Spitzer’s next shoe
Henning [Wayne State]: Spitzer’s next shoe
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 13, 2004 01:23:00 pm

Peter Henning, Wayne State University Law School:"New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer dropped another shoe from his closet on an insurance company, although it was not Aon Corp., about which there was some speculation when Spitzer announced that another suit...

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Commentary Balkin [Yale]: Attorney General Denounces Rule of Law As Aid To Terrorism
Balkin [Yale]: Attorney General Denounces Rule of Law As Aid To Terrorism
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 13, 2004 01:05:00 pm

Jack Balkin, Yale Law School:"From Newsday:Departing Attorney General John Ashcroft on Friday lashed out at federal judges who have dealt setbacks to President George W. Bush's anti-terrorism and wartime policies, accusing them of "invasive oversight and micromanagement.""The danger I see...

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Commentary Friedman [Case]: Gonzales’ paper trial
Friedman [Case]: Gonzales’ paper trial
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 12, 2004 03:26:00 pm

Peter Friedman, Case Western Reserve Law School:"Alberto Gonzalez, the nominee to be chief law enforcement officer of the land, prepared 57 confidential memos on the merits of granting death-row inmates clemency. 56 of the inmates were executed. As Philip Carter...

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