LawBeat
LawBeat watches the journalists who watch the law.
Author: Mark Obbie, who writes most of the posts, is director of the Carnegie Legal Reporting Program at the Newhouse School. Before he joined the Newhouse faculty, he was executive editor of The American Lawyer.
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Recent Posts from LawBeat
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LawBeat on hiatus
Why has this blog been so quiet? Two reasons: Until today, I've been in a long, dark tunnel of work, more intense than even past end-of-semester crunches. But on top of that, I've been debating…
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Painting oral arguments as mere politics
Dana Milbank's April 23 column "The Supremes Sing the Oldies" in the Washington Post is hardly what some would categorize as pure legal journalistic writing. In his column, Milbank pokes fun at the Supreme Court…
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Fortune hypes an already-good feature
The new Bernie Madoff narrative in Fortune by James Bandler and Nicholas Varchaver is a hell of a page-turner. I haven't devoured every Madoff detail -- and who can, judging only from the CNNMoney.com Madoff…
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In an instant, the Court camera tide turns
It's hard not to feel a tingle of excitement when reading Tony Mauro's report of today's appearance at a House hearing by Justices Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer -- an annual budget ritual that unexpectedly…
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In Lackey story, an opportunity lost
It is almost unheard of that an acquittal receives more media attention than the case that predicated it. But this is the case for Dan Lackey, a developmentally disabled man who was wrongly accused and…
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The Docket: 04/22
This week's edition covers an impressive range, from torture to witty banter among Supreme Court justices. As always, send comments and suggestions to rsmascarenhas [at] gmail [dot] com. As we've seen since the release of…
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When a child porn charge isn't what it seems
This article in today's Washington Post Outlook section should be required reading for every legal reporter and journalism student. Ting-Yi Oei, a Virginia high school administrator, recounts his indictment and the news coverage of his…
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1st Circuit nixes court cameras
That ends that. I guess it was wishful thinking to expect to find a loophole in the federal ban on cameras in the court.
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Gerstein gives DOJ its due -- and then some
On his blog today, Politico's Josh Gerstein shares the backstory to a report he wrote on Attorney General Eric Holder's speech at West Point last night. Justice Department officials, he writes, were "pretty unhappy" that…
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The Docket Returns
Near the end of last year, I briefly wrote The Docket, a weekly feature on this blog that highlighted some of the best legal journalism around the web. I ended my modest effort (the ABA…