Wizbang: Justice Archives

Q: What do you call 25 skydiving plaintiffs' lawyers?

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 13, 2008 · Comments (3)

A: Skeet. Okay, how about this one: Q: How many plaintiffs' lawyers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Three. One to climb the ladder. One to shake it. One to sue the ladder company. * * * Speaking of lawyers and tort lawsuits: Bush administration crafts rules to... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (3 votes cast)

Dragging the Old Ball & Chain

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 9, 2008 · Comments (4)

Check this out: Federal sting nets 83 arrests in suspected marriage-for-citizenship scam A federal sting in Florida of four companies accused of arranging fraudulent marriages for U.S. citizenship, complete with faux wedding photos of brides in gowns and elaborate fake cakes, has netted more than 80 arrests, authorities said Friday.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (4 votes cast)

Law & Order Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 9, 2008 · Comments (0)

Click the below link if you'd like to read about some recent crime & punishment news stories: A left-wing enviro-nut getting 20 years in the clink, an Alaska Republican legislator sentenced to prison for corruption, an illegal immigrant 'coyote' receiving life imprisonment for homicide, and that ongoing late-term abortion criminal... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

War on Terror Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 7, 2008 · Comments (26)

Former Gitmo Prisoner Carried Out Recent Suicide Attack in Iraq The U.S. military is confirming that a former Guantanamo Bay detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in Northern Iraq. * * * The U.S. in 2005 transferred Abdallah al-Ajmi to Kuwaiti custody from Guantanamo. A Kuwaiti court... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (9 votes cast)

Law & Courts Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 7, 2008 · Comments (0)

Here's an interesting court decision which for obvious reasons will not make the front page of USA Today: Local governments and state universities in Michigan are prohibited by a voter-approved ban on gay marriages and gay civil unions from offering health insurance to the partners of gay workers, the Michigan... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (5 votes cast)

Appeals Court Shoots Down NYC Lawsuit Against Gun Industry

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 30, 2008 · Comments (6)

Click the below link to read about a noteworthy court decision that deals with the intertwined topics of legislated tort reforms, partisan politics, the federal judiciary and so-called "gun control."... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (12 votes cast)

Supreme Court Upholds Anti-Fraud Voter Law, colossal defeat for Democrats

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 28, 2008 · Comments (35)

What the Court did: Rejecting claims by Democrats and various leftist groups, the Court upheld Indiana's strict election law. That law mandates photo IDs to cast ballots, thereby to root out election fraud. What it means: A significant number of states will follow Indiana's lead and will adopt strict anti-fraud... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (29 votes cast)

The Sheriff

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 25, 2008 · Comments (52)

Arizona residents, long-time conservatives, and other law & order mavens, certainly know the tall tales of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. For those not in the know Arpaio -- the "toughest sheriff in America" -- has for almost 20 years been titillating law enforcement hawks and angering and dispiriting liberal... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (23 votes cast)

Business/Immigration Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 25, 2008 · Comments (2)

Click the below link for snippets about (1) a key immigration enforcement measure and its potential costs to employers, and (2) the government's quest to hire more prosecutors to handle criminal cases -- including alien smuggling -- along the Southern border. ... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (6 votes cast)

Ramos and Compean drug smuggler pleads guilty

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: April 24, 2008 · Comments (3)

So when will Ramos and Compean be released? Here's the story: The Mexican national who was the star witness in a controversial prosecution that resulted in the sentencing of two Border Patrol agents to more than a decade in prison pleaded guilty to multiple drug charges in federal court Thursday.... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.8/5 (11 votes cast)

Supreme Court Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 23, 2008 · Comments (8)

-- The Virginia Car Search Case What the Court did: The Court ruled the federal Fourth Amendment does not bar police officers from searching and seizing evidence for which there is probable cause -- even in connection with arrests that violate state traffic laws. How they voted: This was a... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (11 votes cast)

Rights of the Unpopular

Posted by DJ Drummond · Published: April 23, 2008 · Comments (51)

I'm worried, and I think maybe you should be, too. The media had a lot of fun covering the April 3 raid by law enforcement on the FLDS' so-called "polygamist compound" just outside San Angelo. The FLDS members have been roundly mocked, and in the public eye have been branded... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (26 votes cast)

Jay Tea, Super Genius

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: April 18, 2008 · Comments (23)

It's not often I can claim with a straight face to be more of a Constitutional scholar than a sitting Supreme Court Justice, but today I am doing that. Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, who will turn 88 this weekend, says that he has changed his mind and now considers... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (35 votes cast)

Supreme Court Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 16, 2008 · Comments (13)

-- Death Penalty/Lethal Injections What the Court did: The Court upheld Kentucky's lethal injection protocols. What it means: For all practical purposes the far left's 40-year crusade to abolish the death penalty nationwide itself is dead and buried. How they voted: This was a 3-2-1-1-2 plurality decision. The lead opinion... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (26 votes cast)

Eminent Domain

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 11, 2008 · Comments (5)

Check this out: A federal judge has ordered a Texas woman to allow the government to survey her land in connection with the ongoing construction of the Southern border security fence, the latest victory for the Department of Homeland Security in a series of legal skirmishes arising from construction of... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (15 votes cast)

Supreme Court Review

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 10, 2008 · Comments (1)

The most newsworthy cases -- gun rights, death penalty, voter laws -- have yet to be decided. Click the below link, however, for synopses of the 07-08 term's most important Supreme Court rulings to date: a case involving federal securities laws, a decision involving principles of Federalism, the International Court... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (5 votes cast)

Money Well Spent

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: March 27, 2008 · Comments (17)

Here in New Hampshire, we haven't had an execution in about 70 years. We still have the death penalty on the books, though, and right now two cases are working their way through the system that could end up putting the defendants on death row. New Hampshire's capital punishment law... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (9 votes cast)

Life... Don't Talk To Me About Life

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: March 13, 2008 · Comments (4)

Today, the Boston Herald has a news story about an organization of which it does not approve. Lifer's Group Inc. has very strict membership criteria -- you have to be serving life in prison. It meets twice a month at the state prison in Norfolk, Massachusetts and discusses matters of... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (6 votes cast)

Duke lacrosse players sue university

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: February 21, 2008 · Comments (6)

This could possibly be the least surprising story of the day, but the lacrosse team deserves justice. 38 players are suing Duke University, its president Richard Brodhead, the Duke Medical Center, and the city of Durham, North Carolina. Good for them -- these young men were slandered before the entire... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (12 votes cast)

Law & Order Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 11, 2008 · Comments (3)

In this update we've got musings about the upcoming military trials in Gitmo of the 9/11 planners and the Justice Department's charges of espionage against that DOD official. Click the below link to read more.... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (3 votes cast)

Law & Order Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 8, 2008 · Comments (0)

In this update we've got musings on DNA technology and parole policies, a state supreme court decision regarding capital punishment, a major worksite immigraton raid, along with a veritable pot luck of recent news items on the immigration enforcement front. Click the below link if you'd like to read more.... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Judge Upholds Arizona's Strict Anti-Illegal Immigrant Hiring Law

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 7, 2008 · Comments (7)

A federal judge on Thursday for the second time upheld a law that prohibits businesses knowingly from hiring illegal immigrants and pulls the business licenses of those which do so. U.S. District Judge Neil Wake dismissed a lawsuit filed by business groups that sought to invalidate the law. The business... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (7 votes cast)

Dutch crime reporter "solves" Natalee Holloway case

Posted by Kevin · Published: February 4, 2008 · Comments (7)

ABC's 20/20 is running a special 90 minute report on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. In the broadcast Joran van der Sloot confesses on tape that he was in fact responsible for the disappearance of the American girl in Aruba. de Vries' website has a summary of the story and... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (7 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: January 31, 2008 · Comments (0)

Today's winner is South Korean Judge Kim Mi-ri. He gets the award for the following. SUWON, South Korea -- The South Korean businessman accused of bribing two AAFES officials in connection with a lucrative Internet contract was sentenced Wednesday to pay a fine. His company, SSRT, also was fined. Jeong... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (9 votes cast)

Katrina Lawsuit Against Federal Gov't Dismissed

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: January 30, 2008 · Comments (51)

A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a key class action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that was based on the levee breach that caused much of the flooding of New Orleans. The ruling relied on the Flood Control Act of 1928, which makes the federal government... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (4 votes cast)

Justice Archives

May 13, 2008

May 9, 2008

May 7, 2008

April 30, 2008

April 28, 2008

April 25, 2008

April 24, 2008

April 23, 2008

April 18, 2008

April 16, 2008

April 11, 2008

April 10, 2008

March 27, 2008

March 13, 2008

February 21, 2008

February 11, 2008

February 8, 2008

February 7, 2008

February 4, 2008

January 31, 2008

January 30, 2008

Advertisements

Search

Contact

Subscribe Via E-Mail

The Wizbang® Network

Wizbang Pop!: Wrong wrong wrong wrong....

Wizbang Blue: West Virginia Democratic Primary Results

Wizbang Pop!: James Garner Hospitalized

Wizbang Blue: Affluent OK with Dems Raising Capital Gains Tax

Wizbang Sports: Annika Sorenstam announces her retirement

Wizbang Blue: Newsbuster Swiftboating of Weiler Taking on Water

Wizbang Pop!: Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dies in Fla. at 82

Wizbang Pop!: National Doodle Day Auction!

Wizbang Pop!: Weinsteins roll with 'Fraggle Rock'

Wizbang Pop!: Iowa man charged with throwing candy at police

Categories

Credits

Work At Wizbang!