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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Camera ban = pen ban = eyesight ban?
A holiday gift idea for the court that has everything: those memory-erasing flashy things from Men in Black. Evidently a D.C. Circuit panel could have used one last week when its attempt to control news…
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Internet gambling's murky rules
I just noticed that the Washington Post's Gilbert Gaul followed his Sunday report on cheating scandals in Internet poker -- "Inside Bet," an investigation conducted with "60 Minutes" -- with the legal angle in a…
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Law blog list duped once again
I'm flattered that the ABA Journal's editors didn't vote me off their law-blog island. For the second year in a row, LawBeat is among the Journal's 100 best law blogs (even though it's more a…
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WSJ spots gun angle in pardons-story folo
Amir Efrati uses a reporter's nose, and shoe leather, to document a pattern among many of last week's recipients of presidential pardons. He writes in Friday's Wall Street Journal:On the surface, the list of the…
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"Sting" story months in the making
Christopher Ketcham's story from the upcoming January issue of Vanity Fair shows what a magazine writer can do to break news in a tabloid-friendly murder case -- especially when one side in the case chooses…
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Abrams: 650 so far have drunk the Kool-Aid
Dan Abrams -- the NBC legal journalist scheming to hire out working or unemployed journalists as corporate consultants -- tells the Observer's Felix Gillette that in the first five days, he lured 650 journalists to…
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Good impending news on NYT legal beat
This morning's reappearance of Adam Liptak's Sidebar column prompted me to wonder anew whether the Times will ever replace Liptak on the national legal-affairs beat. Good news: deputy national editor David Firestone predicts an announced…
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LAT gives Prop 8 the drive-by treatment
If this is the best that the LA Times can muster in covering a huge legal issue at a critical turning point, then I pity California voters -- and anyone else in the country, on…
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Boiling down without dumbing down
SCOTUSblog's Lyle Denniston performs a feat of summarizing and packaging with this report on a remarkable series of cases that put into practice the Supreme Court's Boumediene v. Bush decision. It's been five months since…
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Recorder plays public-record watchdog
Thanks to a brief and accidental disclosure of a court document meant to be sealed, Dan Levine of The Recorder shines a light on a court's casual decision to conceal public documents -- and a…