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White House press release: President Nominates Judge Samuel A. Alito as Supreme Court Justice. Also from the White House: Biography of Samuel A. Alito Jr. AP: Bush Nominates Alito for Supreme Court CNN: Bush nominates Alito to Supreme Court Conservatives, liberals ready for heated debate Complete coverage from the New York Times: Supreme Court in …
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Working Paper 05-27, Mitchell Berlin and Yaron Leitner, Courts and Contractual Innovation: A Preliminary Analysis. [s.f.]
In a Letter to President Bush, White House Counsel Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. GOP senators assert independence in wake of Miers withdrawal New York Times: Miers Failed to Win Support of Key Senators and Conservatives Related links on the Miers nomination The Hill: Miers withdraws nomination…quoting …
Press release, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: “Secret docketing procedures used by a federal court in Miami are unconstitutional, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta (11th Cir.) has ruled, meaning federal trial courts in three states must provide written explanations when they decide that sealing documents is warranted. The court’s opinion …
Senate Finance Cmte. Ranking Minority Member Senator Max Baucus Calls on Supreme Court Nominee to Furnish Tax Returns White House Response Baucus letter to White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card Letter to Miers Organized opposition to Miers moves to web: see WithdrawMiers.org WSJ Free Features: Point Man for Miers Juggles Allegiances – Legal Conservative …
Reinventing the Empire of Secrecy: An Agenda for the First DNI, by Lee S. Strickland The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project, by Jonathan Band Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements – Revised and Updated, by Marci Hoffman Criminal Justice Ethics Sources on the Internet, by Ken Strutin In the Wake of Katrina …
From the New York Times (reg. req’d), links to the following documents in PDF: Senate Judiciary Committee’s Questionnaire (57 pages, PDF) 1989 Questionnaire From Texans United for Life (2 pages, PDF) Financial Statement/Net Worth (2 pages, PDF) Financial Disclosure Report – Nomination Filing (6 pages, PDF) From AP: Disclosure forms of Supreme Court nominee Harriet …
From the Federal Judiciary Newsroom, “a new locator map…helps you find all federal courts and probation and pretrial services offices. It is searchable by city and state, zip code, county and state, and area code.”
Press release: Specter-Leahy Release Questionnaire On Nomination Of Harriet Miers To Be Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court, October 12, 2005. See also U.S. Senate Asks Miers If She Made Promises on Court Rulings
From the Christian Science Monitor today, Experience needed? The long history of nonjudge justices. “Nearly half of justices had no prior experience on the bench.”
Key Ruling Backs Blog and Web Rights Delware Supreme Court, John Doe No. 1 v. Cahill et. al., October 5, 2005 (33 pages, PDF) Related links: Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents Updates to Recent White Paper on Blogging Anonymously
From the University of Michigan Law Library, Information on Harriet Miers, Nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court. This page was created with the collaborative effort of Kincaid C. Brown, Barbara H. Garavaglia, Aimee S. Mangan and Jennifer Selby. SMU Underwood Law Library: Published Writings of Harriet E. Miers, Nominee for Justice of the U. …
