Law Blog
"WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law." The Wall Street Journal's legal blog features a half-dozen detailed posts daily on a wide variety of legal topics from law firm shakeups—sometimes featuring interviews with BigLaw names—to the U.S. Supreme Court. Posts frequently include links to pleadings and other relevant legal documents.
Author: The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog is written by the Wall Street Journal's Legal Affairs group. The blog's editor is Ashby Jones.
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Recent Posts from Law Blog
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Diversity Dilemma: Crist Stuck Choosing Judge From Panel of Whites
The Florida Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Governor Charlie Crist (pictured), violated the state Constitution when he refused to fill an appeals court vacancy because all of the potential picks are white.
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Secret, Recorded Chat Takes Center Stage in OC Sheriff Case
An interesting issue has arisen on appeal of the conviction of Michael Carona, the former sheriff of Orange County, Calif.
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Conviction Tossed in MySpace-Suicide Case
This just in: a federal judge in Los Angeles has tentatively thrown out the convictions of Lori Drew, a Missouri mother, for Drew's role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who…
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The ‘Culture Defense’: Legitimate or a Cop Out?
Our own Amir Efrati today delivered a nice Law Journal column, which asks the question: should immigrants who act in ways that seem ordinary in their homeland but are illegal in the U.S. be cut…
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A ‘Pleased’ Kozinski Cleared of Wrongdoing
Ninth Circuit judge Alex Kozinski has been cleared of wrongdoing by a panel of judges from the Third Circuit. The panel investigated allegations that Kozinski had a Web site that contained obscene images; allegations which…
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Sizing Up a Student-Loan Horror Story
We found Jonathan Glater's page-one story in today's NYT highly entertaining. The thing we struggled with, however, was whether to feel badly for Bowman. Rather than come down on one side or another, we're going…
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Another Potential Blow to Stanford: Bank’s CFO to Plead Guilty
It hasn't been a good few days for Allen Stanford. Earlier in the week, his bail was revoked. On Wednesday, one of Stanford's co-defendants in the case, James Davis, the former CFO of Stanford Bank,…
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Beazer, Now an Admitted Tortfeasor, Settles Fraud Charges
The latest from the world of law and bad mortgages: The Justice Department reported on Wednesday that Beazer Homes will pay up to $53 million to settle mortgage fraud charges related to federally insured mortgage…
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Holden Caulfield Stays Young: Salinger Wins Copyright Suit
U.S. District Court judge Deborah Batts followed up on her temporary restraining order from last month, and permanently banned publication of an unauthorized sequel to J.D. Salinger's uber-famous novel, Catcher in the Rye.
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‘In Praise of Law Firm Layoffs’
Our old friend Dan Slater (who, for those new to our work, used to write this very Law Blog), a few minutes ago published a piece on the NYT's Dealbook site entitled "In Praise of…