Constitutional Law

Week in Review: April 7-April 11

Stories

• Frank Kendall, an observer from Human Rights First who is blogging from Guantánamo Bay, posted his expectations for the trip, and attended his first military commission hearing.
• An analysis of recent preemption cases involving pharmaceutical companies.
• An interview with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins.
• What will happen to detainees if Guantánamo Bay is closed?
• An ex-convict rehabilitation bill was signed into law on Wednesday.
• New evidence that the Bush Administration planned and approved details of the interrogations of al Qaeda suspects by the CIA.
• Videos of internal Wal-Mart corporation meetings have been made available for purchase by their former video production company, which has proved a boon to lawyers suing Wal-Mart.
• The Bush administration has increasingly employed “deferred prosecutions” of U.S. corporations accused of criminal liability.
• A New York law firm has banned BlackBerry devices at major meetings.

Resources

• A live webcast from a symposium on the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v. Texas, held April 11th and 12th.
• A paper presented by Naomi Cahn, Professor of Law at George Washington University School of Law and June Carbone, Professor of Law at the University of Kansas-Missouri School of Law, entitled, “Deep Purple: Religious Shades of Family Law.”
• This week’s congressional activities.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on April 11, 2008 (boomark / email).