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Abortion Foes Take to eBay to Raise Funds for Roeder's Defense [Voices]

This is a section of the All Things Digital Web site featuring posts from around the Web, from other Dow Jones properties and also original pieces we solicit. The section is now explicitly labeled that it comes "from other Web sites." We are fully ...

From ASHBY JONES, All Things Digital,  26 Oct 2009
Related Topics: eBay Inc.,  Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

A Town, Its Teens, and a Practice Called ‘Sexting’

This is a section of the All Things Digital Web site featuring posts from around the Web, from other Dow Jones properties and also original pieces we solicit. The section is now explicitly labeled that it comes "from other Web sites." We are fully ...

From ASHBY JONES, Voices | All Things Digital,  21 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

Barring 11th-Hour Reprieve, Nacchio to Report to Prison Tuesday

But for now, things don’t look so good. His fall is about to begin. On Monday, the Tenth Circuit denied his request for bail pending the Supreme Court’s decision on whether to take up his case. Barring an eleventh-hour reprieve Tuesday morning from ...

From ASHBY JONES, Voices | All Things Digital,  14 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Stephen Breyer,  Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

MySpace a Bulletin Board, Not Private Room, Says California Court

How do social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace fit within the world of privacy law? Are such sites private rooms in which one can pen his or her internal thoughts without fear of others misappropriating such thoughts? Or are such sites really ...

From ASHBY JONES, Voices | All Things Digital,  6 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

Twelve Twittering Men?

We here at the Law Blog have been called for jury duty several times (in New York City, it feels like an annual event), but have never been picked to sit. It’s probably a good thing, because, despite our legal training and basic understanding of how ...

From ASHBY JONES, Voices | All Things Digital,  18 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  John Schwartz,  Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

Second Circuit Shoots Down Novel Take on Corporate Criminality

Would the Second Circuit shift its stance on the criminal prosecution of companies? That was the question many in the white-collar world were asking as they awaited a decision in a case called U.S. v. Ionia Management. Well, on Tuesday, they got their ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Joseph McLaughlin

Cooley Cuts Deeply, Slashes 52 Lawyers From Payroll

WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law. Times are changing: Its a new year, weve got a new president in the Oval Office, and the Arizona Cardinals are Super Bowl bound. But on the law-firm front, 2009 is starting out just where 2008 ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  21 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Arizona Cardinals,  Wall Street Journal,  Dow Jones,  Digg,  Facebook Inc.

Reading of the Presidential Oath, Take Two?

We really didn’t think it’d come to this. But apparently, some constitutional scholars out there are suggesting that President Obama retake the presidential oath. Click here for the story, from the Washington Post. Yesterday, as the whole ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  21 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George Washington University,  John Roberts,  Calvin Coolidge,  U.S. Department of Justice

Oops! A Chief Slipup on the Oath of Office

WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law. I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  20 Jan 2009
Related Topics: John Roberts,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Rick Warren,  Wall Street Journal

World Court Rebukes U.S. (Again) Over Mexican Death-Row Inmates

Remember José Medellín (pictured)? He was the Mexican national convicted in Texas of murder in the 1990s and executed last year, over the objections of the International Court of Justice. The Hague-based court had called for additional judicial ...

From ASHBY JONES, Wall Street Journal,  20 Jan 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  U N Security Council

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