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...York's Cuomo does have the authority to bring criminal cases involving securities violations under the Martin Act, which gives the attorney general of New York the power to prosecute financial fraud. And it is not unheard of for executives to go to jail for lying on a proxy statement. In the 1970s, in a famous Wall Street fraud case, the chief executive of National Student Marketing was sentenced to 18 months in jail for lying about the finances of a company National Student Marketing was acquiring. Yet Cuomo has typically stuck to bringing civil charges against executives and companies...
...World Report ranking of U.S. law schools placed Yale ahead of Stanford and Harvard based on the percentage of 2007 graduates from each school who received employment as judicial clerks. Clerks are assigned to one judge or justice and are charged with reviewing briefs and conducting research for pending cases. The ranking system takes into account both the percentage of graduates employed as clerks in any court and the percentage of graduates employed as clerks in Article III courts, which include the U.S. Supreme Court, the 12 U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the 94 U.S. District Courts...
...from movie to movie. She purses her lips while crying; the outer edges of her eyebrows elevate when she smiles; she speaks slowly and almost reluctantly. After nearly two decades of these mannerisms, she could be accused of simply mimicking herself role after role, but this is never the case. Rather, Zellweger doesn’t need any radical physical transformation to inhabit her roles. British director Richard Loncraine—who previously directed film adaptations of Shakespeare and a made for TV movie about Winston Churchill—allows Zellweger to flourish in a quieter, more formal movie than...
...views on approaching Court decisions.Souter, whose polite but persistent questioning of lawyers who appear before the court and gracefully written opinions reflect his relatively liberal stance, described himself as a “pragmatic,” in the sense that he “worries first about the case and factual details of a case before deciding just how grand a principle is necessary to decide it.”“That’s why I espouse the common law method, which gets down to nitty-gritty kinds of factual issues to decide which...
...whom are undergraduates, according to Rosenthal. This number is much higher than the usual number of sick students in September. “What we’re seeing in a day, we might be seeing in a week last year,” Rosenthal said. Of the 120 cases since August, about 50 are currently active. These students are either in isolated rooms, at home, or in Stillman Infirmary. “Everyone at Stillman has been phenomenal,” said Kevin W.H. Chi ’10, who has been in Stillman for five days with...