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| Judge Reprimanded for Blasting Prosecutors Who Won Cases Over Atty Wife | A North Carolina judge was reprimanded today for the second time in less than a year—this time over outbursts directed at prosecutors. The prosecutors who the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission say were the objects of Judge Timothy Smith's ire had won convictions in separate trials against defendants represented by Smith's defense attorney wife, the Charlotte Observer reported. “Judge Smith allowed his family relationship to influence his conduct in a public setting, and Judge Smith knew or should have known such outbursts were both intimidating and inappropriate,” the commission wrote in its reprimand. Smith accepted the reprimand and agreed not… |
| Who Are the Most-Downloaded Law Professors? Get the Stats | Social Science Research Network has a site meter of sorts for what legal scholarship is being read through its site and how often. The top law authors page "is watched for sport," Lauren Streib writes at Business Insider's Law Review. The blog pays tribute to the 10 law professors who have had the most downloads in the past year with a slideshow. These top profs are the only ones whose work has been downloaded more than 15,000 times within the last 12 months: • Lucian Bebchuk of Harvard Law School. His papers have been downloaded 26,941 times, and his most-downloaded… |
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| | Lehman examiner says legal claims possible - MarketWatch | |
| Open-primary ballot measure faces legal challenge - San Jose Mercury News | |
Jurist
| | Sweden parliament approves Armenian genocide resolution | [JURIST] The Swedish Parliament [official website, in Swedish] on Thursday voted 131-130 to approve a resolution [text, in Swedish] that recognizes the Ottoman Empire's killing of Armenians between 1915 and 1923 as genocide [JURIST news archive]. Of the 349 assembly members, 88 were absent [AP |
| US State Department releases 2009 annual rights reports | [JURIST] The US State Department (DOS) [official website] on Thursday released its 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices [materials]. Announcing the release [video; statement text], Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the US has recommitted "to continue the hard work of making |
Google law
| | Myanmar's Suu Kyi denounces new law - Aljazeera.net | |
| 5 couples in Mexico City inaugurate same-sex marriage law - CNN International | |
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