Word: circuitousness
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...School professors signed a statement in support of the defendant in a case regarding executive pay that will be heard by the Supreme Court next week. In the case, Jones et al. v. Harris Associates, several mutual fund investors charged that the fund had overpaid its advisors. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago dismissed a full court rehearing of the lawsuit in May 2008. Law professors John C. Coates, Robert C. Clark, Allen Ferrell, and J. Mark Ramseyer signed an amicus brief earlier this month in support of the defendant, Harris Associates, along with more than 20 other...
...young lawyer to the inner workings of the judicial system,” said Craig Primis, a 1994 Harvard Law School alumnus now employed at Kirkland and Ellis, LLP. After graduating from law school, Primis clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig on the U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit, before taking a clerkship for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Primis noted that clerking is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that can “distinguish and advance one’s legal career.” According to the rankings, 41.4 percent of 2007 Yale Law School graduates...
...account for at the time of a given statute’s passing.One of the few Supreme Court justices to step down from the bench while in good health, Souter said that he plans to undertake a variety of part-time jobs, such as returning to the First Circuit in Boston, where he spent just one day hearing cases before starting his tenure at the Supreme Court.Souter has also joined a committee in his home state of New Hampshire that aims to provide statewide standards for a curriculum of civic education—a “subject that...
...this point, I usually run to Circuit City and demand “one of everything...
Another goal of the speech, officials say, was to install a circuit breaker - not only to the mythology and false claims about the legislation but also to the wars that have been waged between the left and the right over actual provisions. Chief among them: the "public option," a government-run alternative like Medicare to cover the uninsured. "What's happened is that has become sort of a Rorschach test for the left and the right," the White House official said. "There are those on the left who believe this would be the nose under the tent for single-payer...