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Sunday, February 18, 2007 "When Lawyers and Juries Mete Out Punishment": Monday's edition of The New York Times will contain this new installment (TimesSelect temporary pass-through link) of Adam Liptak's "Sidebar" column focusing on a punitive damages award against Ford Motor Company. The U.S. Supreme Court's docket entries in the case can be accessed here. And the ruling of the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District, Division One, can be viewed at this link (as later amended here). Update: Previously, Ted Frank wrote about this case in an essay titled "Rollover Economics: Arbitrary and Capricious Product Liability Regimes." "Australian Held at Guantanamo May Go Home": The New York Times on Monday will contain an article that begins, "The Australian foreign minister said Sunday that his government had reached a deal to allow David Hicks, who has been held at the American military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for more than five years without trial, to return to Australia by the end of the year." Monday's edition of The Sydney Morning Herald reports that "Costello points the finger at Hicks." BBC News reports that "Hicks to return home 'this year'; Australia's only remaining detainee at the US military jail in Guantanamo Bay could be home by the end of the year." And Bloomberg News reports that "Australian Terror Suspect Hicks May Be Home This Year." "McCain: Roe v. Wade Should Be Overturned." The Associated Press provides this report. Posted at 10:24 PM by Howard Bashman "Lethal injection under increasing scrutiny across country; No executions in Florida while method reviewed": The South Florida Sun-Sentinel contains this article today. Posted at 03:00 PM by Howard Bashman "Tribes' sovereign status under fire; Top state court ruling opens door to suits": This front page article appears today in The Sacramento Bee. Posted at 02:50 PM by Howard Bashman "BALCO case has journalism in a quandary; Support uncertain for media protecting their sources": Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle. Posted at 02:48 PM by Howard Bashman "Smith case is more than just theatrics; Beneath the spectacle of the model's death are vexing legal questions": The Los Angeles Times contains this article today. Posted at 02:45 PM by Howard Bashman "6 of 7 Dismissed U.S. Attorneys Had Positive Job Evaluations": This article appears today in The Washington Post. Posted at 02:23 PM by Howard Bashman "A Man of Mystery: Richard Hohlt is the heavy hitter you've never heard of." In the February 26, 2007 issue of Newsweek, Michael Isikoff will have an article that begins, "Robert Novak, as usual, had a scoop to unload--only this time, it was from the witness stand. Testifying last week in the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the conservative columnist gruffly described how he first learned from two top Bush administration officials that Valerie Plame, wife of Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson, was a CIA officer." Posted at 12:42 PM by Howard Bashman "Judging the Justices: A scholar writes that success on the high court stems from temperament." Today in the "Book World" section of The Washington Post, Jeff Shesol has this review of Law Professor Jeffrey Rosen's new book, "The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America." Earlier this month, Gina Barton of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had a review headlined "'Supreme Conflict' does justice to high court" of ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg's new book, "Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court." And in April 2007, Doubleday Books will publish "Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas" by Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher, both of The Washington Post. "Time to open up High Court to TV": This editorial appears today in The Boston Herald. And The Toledo Blade today contains an editorial entitled "Supreme Court photo op." "'Retired' Justice O'Connor as Busy as Ever": U.S. News & World Report recently posted online this article. Posted at 11:15 AM by Howard Bashman On this date in 1988: The AP's "Today in History" feature reports that nineteen years ago today, "Anthony M. Kennedy was sworn in as the 104th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court." Posted at 11:14 AM by Howard Bashman "Pulitzer winner talks about changes on land's highest court; Greenhouse says court has effect on justices just as they have an effect on the court": On Friday, The ASU Web Devil posted online an article that begins, "New York Times Supreme Court correspondent Linda Greenhouse spoke about the importance of Supreme Court Justices to approximately 300 people at a lecture Thursday." Posted at 11:10 AM by Howard Bashman "Senior U.S., Canadian judges spar over judicial activism": Saturday's edition of The Toronto Globe and Mail contained an article that begins, "If the framers of the Charter of Rights did not want judges to rule on moral and ethical issues, they should have said so, Mr. Justice Ian Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada said yesterday during a freewheeling debate with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia." Posted at 12:24 AM by Howard Bashman  
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