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Adam Liptak (born September 2, 1960 in Stamford, Connecticut) is an American journalist, lawyer and instructor in journalism. He is currently the national legal correspondent for The New York Times.

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Justices Weigh Life in Prison for Youths Who Never Killed

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed. All are in the United States. And 77 of them are here in ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of South Florida,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bill McCollum

Justices, in Aftermath of 2 Murder Cases, Hear Claims of a Process Gone Wrong

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in two cases involving claims that the criminal justice system had gone badly awry. In one, Iowa prosecutors are accused of fabricating evidence that sent two innocent men to life imprisonment for ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Richter,  Anthony Kennedy,  Neal Katyal,  Sonia Sotomayor,  George W. Bush

Supreme Court Addresses Pay of Fund Advisers

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday appeared reluctant to allow judges to take on a major role in policing the compensation of mutual fund investment advisers. But some justices nonetheless suggested that pay arrangements could be so outsized that ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Sidebar: In Battle Over Gay Marriage, Timing May Be Key

In a San Francisco courtroom two weeks ago, a prominent lawyer opposed to same-sex marriage made a concession that could mark a turning point in the legal wars over the purpose and meaning of marriage. The lawyer, Charles J. Cooper, has studied the ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Theodore B. Olson,  David Boies,  New York University,  Charles J Cooper,  Vaughn R Walker

Justices to hear appeal from uighurs held at Guantánamo

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether federal courts have the power to order prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay to be released into the United States. The court's decision to hear the case adds a further complication to the ...

From ADAM LIPTAK NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Department of Justice,  George W. Bush,  Al-Qaeda

Justices to Decide if Detainees Can Be Released Into U.S.

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether federal courts have the power to order prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay to be released into the United States. The case concerns 17 men from the largely Muslim Uighur region of western ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Department of Justice

Justices Hear Arguments on Property Seized by Police

Civil forfeitures can raise an array of due process issues, and the question before the court was the relatively minor one of whether people seeking to get their property back are entitled to a prompt hearing before a judge. Though some justices ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Breyer,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Antonin Scalia,  John Paul Stevens

Justices Seem Sympathetic to Defendant Given Bad Advice

WASHINGTON Several Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared sympathetic to a criminal defendant who unwittingly agreed to be deported by pleading guilty to a drug crime. But the justices seemed uncertain about whether they could fashion a legal rule ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jose Padilla,  Antonin Scalia,  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Sidebar: An Elusive Line Between ‘Obnoxious’ Dishonesty and the Criminal Kind

Adam Liptaks column about the legal world appears weekly. In February, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that federal prosecutors had developed an unseemly crush on a particularly vague law, one that “has been invoked to impose criminal penalties upon a ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Antonin Scalia,  George Brown,  Boston College,  Hollinger International, Inc.,  U.S. Department of Justice

Supreme Court Memo: Sotomayor Puts Stamp on a Day at Court

WASHINGTON Justice Sonia Sotomayor may be new, but she is not shy. She quickly established herself this week as a significant force in Supreme Court arguments, asking clipped, pointed and sometimes impatient questions. Her predecessor, Justice David H. ...

From ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sandra Day O'Connor,  Sonia Sotomayor,  David H. Souter

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