Jurist Embraces Image As a Hard-Line Holdout
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has methodically built a record notable for its unwavering conservatism and aggressive challenges to longstanding legal precedents.
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The legal profession may have a reputation for being conservative, but some US courts are taking a more hi-tech approach.
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Being a lawyer isn't really about exciting "Law and Order" courtroom drama. It's about paperwork. Lots of it.
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Why a Supreme Court ruling on sentencing guidelines puts more power back on the bench
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 17--LONG BEACH -- Her brain clogged with legal jargon, Lindsay Ward delivered an opening statement on a recent weekday with staggering zeal. Her cross-examination was so powerful that it almost fell into the subset of intimidating.
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While it is risky to predict how the justices will decide, some expressed skepticism today about the case.
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In the United States, when defenders are making an attitude signal, traditionally an unnecessarily high card is encouraging, asking for that suit to be continued or led.
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In what may be a sign of things to come, the lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. last month invoked the rarely used courtroom tactic: the âbloggers can be meanâ defense.
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The rulings, the latest legal setbacks for the governmentâs effort to bring war crimes charges against detainees, could stall the militaryâs prosecutions at GuantÃ¡namo Bay.
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The project has prompted criticism from those who worry that lawyers could skew new rules in favor of their clients.
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Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales is promising senators that he will abide by treaties prohibiting the torture of prisoners, despite deriding the restraints as relics in 2002.
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Of all the organs of the government and the state the judiciary is one that is held highest in public esteem in Bangladesh. It is considered as the last resort of individuals seeking personal redress as well as of the nation in times of national crises.
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Analysis: A court decision requiring that all evidence on prisoners be disclosed in court was a blow to the Administration. But it could help at the Supreme Court
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Justice is blind and so are some judges &#151; at least in sports.
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A âjudgeâs probationâ program shows what can happen when judges with meager training exercise unchecked power.
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Judges may be stopped from freeing criminals on legal 'loopholes' under government plans.
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A lawsuit over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad allows presidential hopefuls to strut their stuff in defense of the constitutional rights of satirists