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National Law Journal: Selections from Legal Times Afternoon Update January 11, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, January 11, 2010.

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Next Target for Plaintiffs Bar: Nursing Homes?

"The American Association for Justice, which lobbies on behalf of plaintiffs lawyers, won a small victory last month in the long war over mandatory arbitration. Congress banned defense contractors from including in their employment contracts any provisions that require arbitration Â? clearing the way for more employment disputes to be taken to court. "

 

Lawyers for Iranian Group Challenge 'Terrorist' Designation

"The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran is not a foreign terrorist organization and should not be labeled as such by the State Department, according to a Mayer Brown lawyer who is planning to argue the group's case at a federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday."

 

Justices Temporarily Halt Streaming of Prop 8 Trial on YouTube

"The Supreme Court today ordered the federal judge hearing the Proposition 8 trial to confine the real time streaming of the trial to rooms within the confines of the courthouse. The temporary stay of Judge Vaughn Walker's plan to record the trial and post it on YouTube is in effect until Wednesday at 4 p.m. (EST)."

 

Federal Judge Orders Release of Sealed Court Papers in Blackwater Case

"A federal judge in Washington is planning to release hundreds of pages of transcripts from sealed hearings in the governmentÂ?s prosecution of five former Blackwater Worldwide security guards, saying there is no justification for keeping the information secret indefinitely."

 

At the Supreme Court, Life is One Big Vocabulary Lesson

"We've written in the past about an advocate before the Supreme Court who taught Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. a new vocabulary word: romanette, an obscure but self-explaining word for lower-case roman numerals. This morning, the new word du jour was "orthogonal," a mainly mathematical term for things that are perpendicular or at right angles to each other"

 

Ethics Reform Groups Praise White House Efforts

"Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters, and U.S. PIRG for the first time issued a report card that gave the administration 'A' grades for its revolving door restrictions on lobbyists and open government efforts, and "B" grades for its lobbyist gift ban, rules restricting lobbyists from serving on advisory boards, and the restrictions on seeking stimulus funds."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on January 12, 2010 (boomark / email).