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• Did You Know... Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Was Interviewed On 60 Minutes?

  Brett Emison | November 29, 2010 11:33 AM | 2 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Justice Stevens was featured in an intriguing behind-the-scenes interview onCBS's 60 Minutes last night. [More of theDid You Know... series] (c) Copyright 2010 Brett A. Emison

• Breaking News: SCOTUS Rules Lap Belt Only Seat Belt Cases Not Preempted

  Brett Emison | February 23, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In a victory for the constitution, states' rights and safety, the Supreme Court of the United States, in Williamson v. Mazda, has unanimously ruled (2 concurrences, no dissents) that federal...

• University of Chicago, Northwestern, New York Times Examine Business Influences on SCOTUS

  Brett Emison | December 30, 2010 12:12 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  New York Times legal correspondent Adam Liptak this week filed an excellent page A1 story on the influence that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has had on recent Supreme Court decisions. In...

• Laurence Tribe's Comments On Sonya Sotomayor

  Brett Emison | October 29, 2010 9:24 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  There has been lots of coverage regarding a private letter Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe wrote to President Obama after it was announced that Justice David Souter would step down from the...

• Illinois Chief Justice In Election Fight Over Med Mal Decision

  Brett Emison | September 01, 2010 2:30 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Walter Olson wrote on his blog, Overlawyered, about an effort to unseat Illinois Chief Justice Thomas Kilbride. Olson, as does the Chicago Tribune, links Chief Justice Kilbride's election fight to...

• Legal and Safety News of the Day

  Brett Emison | August 03, 2010 2:30 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Legal and safety news from around the web: Michigan Supreme Court tweaks the standard for injury lawsuits [Detroit Free Press via Howard Bashman at How Appealing; also from Joe Consumer at The...

• US Supreme Court To Re-Examine Seat Belt Preemption

  Brett Emison | July 13, 2010 10:33 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In May, the United States Supreme Court announced that it would hear an appeal of a case that had alleged a seat belt design defect, but was dismissed because the vehicle complied with the technical...

• Another Argument Against Partisan Judicial Elections

  Brett Emison | July 03, 2010 9:02 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I've written about how Don Blankenship -- CEO of the Massey Energy Company responsible for the West Virgina mine explosion -- attempted to buy a West Virginia supreme court judge in a partisan...

• Followup: Elena Kagan Confirmation Hearing Roundup

  Brett Emison | July 01, 2010 2:46 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Now that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has finished her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, here's what others are saying: The Consensus: Kagan Does Well, But Still Rankles Some...

• Elena Kagan Confirmation Roundup

  Brett Emison | June 29, 2010 11:10 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A roundup of blog coverage of the second day of the Elena Kagan's Supreme Court confirmation hearings: Top 5 Elena Kagan Quotes from Day 2 of Her Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings by Kashmir Hill...