Goldman Sachs showed restraint after a Supreme Court ruling that political ads were protected as free speech.
Tue 3 Aug 2010
Filed under: Goldman Sachs Group|GS|NYSE, Campaign Finance, Political Advertising, Wall Street (NYC), Supreme Court — @ 3:55 am
Fri 30 Jul 2010
Filed under: Bribery and Kickbacks, Chesler, Stanley R, Ferriero, Joseph A, Bergen County (NJ), Decisions and Verdicts, Supreme Court, Democratic Party — @ 5:45 am
A judge terminated the case against Joseph A. Ferriero, citing a Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the definition of the theft of “honest services.”
Wed 21 Jul 2010
Filed under: Immigration and Emigration, Deportation, Supreme Court, Decisions and Verdicts, Drug Abuse and Traffic — @ 3:40 am
A ruling that the government was wrong to automatically deport legal immigrants for minor drug offenses will not help thousands already ejected from the country.
Wed 30 Jun 2010
Filed under: Kagan, Elena, Kagan, Marc, Schwartz, Arthur Z, Transport Workers Union, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Supreme Court, Organized Labor, Manhattan (NYC) — @ 2:47 am
At the headquarters of the Transport Workers Union Local 100, they aren’t watching the confirmation hearings, but they are remembering when Elena Kagan’s brother Marc worked there.
Tue 29 Jun 2010
Filed under: Harvard Club, Harvard University, Kagan, Elena, Supreme Court, Manhattan (NYC) — @ 4:19 am
Elena Kagan is a Harvard Law School alumna, but club members said the hearings on her Supreme Court nomination were not exactly gripping.
Fri 25 Jun 2010
Ruling for two corporate executives in prison for fraud, the Supreme Court drastically narrowed the scope of a law often used by federal prosecutors in corruption cases.
Fri 25 Jun 2010
A Supreme Court decision to limit the law under which Joseph L. Bruno, a former State Senate leader, was convicted might work in his favor.
Thu 24 Jun 2010
A decision to limit the federal law under which the former State Senate majority leader was convicted may work in his favor.
Thu 24 Jun 2010
The Supreme Court ruled that a federal fraud law that has helped white-collar crime prosecutors could not be used to convict the former Enron chief.
Fri 18 Jun 2010
Filed under: Hunter College Elementary School, Harvard University, Kagan, Elena, Kagan, Irving, Kagan, Marc, Kagan, Gloria Gittelman, Kagan, Robert, Princeton University, Hunter College High School, Democratic Party, Families and Family Life, Children and Youth, Supreme Court, Columbia University, Toussaint, Roger, United States Politics and Government, Manhattan (NYC) — @ 6:21 pm
Elena Kagan and her two brothers, the children of a lawyer and a teacher, were raised in a family of intellectual dynamism and liberal causes.