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Point of Law- Securities law 2008-in-review webcastThe panel discussion I was on yesterday (earlier) can be found archived at Bruce Cartons Securities Docket. For much more, see this sites categories on Corporate Governance and Class Actions....Walter Olson
- Specter on AG-nominee HolderSen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) gave a floor speech in the Senate on Tuesday challenging the merits of the nomination of Eric Holder to be the next attorney general. His comments are here. Focus of Specters criticism: Holders review or lack...Carter Wood
- Environmental justice is to justice as ...The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is the first committee out of the 111th Congressional gate to hold confirmation hearings on President-elect Obamas cabinet nominees. (More accurately: pre-confirmation hearings on anticipated nominees.) On Thursday, HELP hears from former...Carter Wood
- Mortgage cramdowns said to be in Obama stimulus packagePer this account; earlier here and here....Walter Olson
- Around the web, January 7Sending Wall Street To Jail: major source of criminal liability could be over-rosy business statements meant to shore up customer, supplier confidence [Roger Parloff, Fortune] Famed Texas injury lawyer Mark Lanier addresses Prof. Jon Hansons torts class at Harvard...Walter Olson
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- Government Reply in Lori Drew Case:...Orin Kerr
- Judge Alton Parker Responds to Theodore Roosevelt:In 1910, Theodore Roosevelt, preparing for his Progressive Party candidacy for the presidency, attacked the Supreme Court in a speech before the Colorado legislature. He singled out Lochner v. New York...David Bernstein
- Larry Flynt asks for a bailout of the porn industry.The latest bailout request is from the porn industry....Jim Lindgren
- Movie Day at the Supreme Court:I was reminded recently of this remarkable story, from Woodward Armstrong's excellent The Brethren. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Court's obscenity doctrine essentially called for case-by-case...Eugene Volokh
- The Case for Renominating Peter Keisler:...Orin Kerr
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