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...police investigation is being conducted with the assistance of the California attorney general's office, which keeps a database of prescription drugs, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Neither Bratton nor the two law-enforcement agencies involved in the case would go into further details when contacted by TIME. However, the police investigation is reportedly centered on a coterie of physicians who treated Jackson throughout the years. Gossip website TMZ reported over the weekend that Jackson may have been administered Diprivan, a powerful sedative typically used in hospital or clinic settings for surgical purposes, shortly before he stopped breathing. (See pictures...
...Attorney Brian Oxman, who helped represent Jackson during the molestation trial, says dozens of drug vials, including Zoloft, Percocet, Vicodin and Demerol, were found at the time. Oxman told TIME: "Instead of pursuing the evidence which was staring them right in the face really - overprescription by doctors, overprescription by employees who were providing him with their drugs - instead of pursuing that which was an obvious, easily proved case they went after the molestation...
Monica Youn, an attorney in the Democracy Program of NYU's nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice, presents this study of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's record. To contextualize Sotomayor's decisions and inform the ongoing debate over the U.S. Supreme Court nominee's purported history of "judicial activism," Youn looked at every constitutional case - 1,194 in total - decided by the judges of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals during Sotomayor's decade of service. The study used three major measures: whether the votes of each judge were in accord with his or her colleagues'; how often the judge upheld...
...Still, the balance remains to be settled. The L.A. attorney's office is investigating how the cash-strapped city got stuck with the bill - and how it can press other parties to chip in. Officials have reached out to members of the Jackson family, though their response is as yet unknown. (Hear TIME's top 10 Michael Jackson songs...
...Here According to Palin, as she announced her decision, her family was uniformly delighted by her move. "It was four yeses and one 'Hell, yeah!' " she said. Others, however, had tried and failed to persuade Palin to rise above silly-season attacks. John Coale, for one. A prominent Washington attorney and fundraiser (and husband of Fox News' Greta Van Susteren), Coale helped Palin set up a PAC and a legal-defense fund. "She was very worried about money," he says, because the cost of defending herself against the various complaints ran some $500,000 in legal bills. Perhaps inevitably...