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Established earlier this year, the ACS has already recruited legal and political heavyweights to its board, including former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, fomer U.S. Solicitor General Drew Days, and Laurence H. Tribe, Tyler professor of constitutional...
After reviving the discussion last night, Braude asked Deputy City Solicitor Donald Drisdell whether the council could grant the easement only on the condition that women be admitted after some defined period of time...
...fierce public debate over the rights of unmarried partners, the MoD announced it would discuss a settlement with Homsi. She would not get the war widow's pension, says an MoD spokesman, but rather an "ex-gratia payment recognizing that in her case there are exceptional circumstances." Homsi's solicitor, Tom Reah, says that his client is still waiting to hear what the MoD might offer but notes that there are larger issues at stake. "Anna Homsi is concerned about herself, obviously," he says. "But she also wants to make sure that anyone else in her position is looked after...
Speakers at the kickoff event, the first meeting since the national society was founded this spring, included Tribe, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, Elaine Jones of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund and Walter Dellinger, the former acting solicitor general. Although the speakers spoke on a range of topics, they all stressed the need to develop a forum for lawyers to debate liberal and progressive ideas...
...plum job of top dog in the Justice Department's criminal division has gone to Michael Chertoff, a former U.S. Attorney who served as GOP Sen. Alfonse D'Amato's chief counsel in his Whitewater investigation. Ted Olson is now solicitor general, having spent part of the last 8 years helping out with the American Spectator's zealous prosecution of Bill Clinton -even as his wife, Barbara Olson, who used to work for Dan Burton, appeared on a fleet of TV talk shows defending Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton. Brett Kavanaugh, who used to work on Starr's independent...