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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor earned a "well-qualified" rating from the American Bar Association on Tuesday as she prepared for Senate hearings next week.
The American Bar Association is calling on the next president and Senate to reduce partisan tensions in federal judicial nominations.
Negative news coverage may have cost former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales his job, but it won him a dubious honor Wednesday from a magazine published by the American Bar Association: Lawyer of the Year.
Serious problems in state death penalty systems compromise fairness and accuracy in capital punishment cases and justify a nationwide freeze on executions, the American Bar Association says.
President Bush's penchant for writing exceptions to laws he has just signed violates the Constitution, an American Bar Association task force says in a report highly critical of the practice.
The American Bar Association denounced President Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program Monday, accusing him of exceeding his powers under the Constitution.
Fixes to death penalty ignored by FloridaLegal experts are criticizing Florida for ignoring fixes to its death penalty procedures recommended three years ago by an American Bar Association team.
Precedent Reinstated In Deportation CasesAttorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. yesterday overturned a Bush administration ruling in January that immigrants do not have a constitutional right to effective legal counsel in deportation proceedings.
US immigrants facing deportation have 'no right to an effective attorney' AG Michael Mukasey, last-minute evisceration of a constitutional rightIn Wednesday's decision, George Bush's attorney general, Michael Mukasey, wrote that immigration courts need not reopen "removal" - or deportation - proceedings on the grounds that an immigrant's attorney was incompetent.
Law Schools Growing, but Jobs Aren'tTo hear many students tell it, law school is a guaranteed ticket to a well-paying career. So a recent milestone must have sounded like good news.
ABA Asked to Examine Accreditation of Pat Robertson's Law SchoolOn Friday, a Houston civil rights lawyer sent a complaint letter to the American Bar Association asking the group to examine the accreditation of Pat Robertson's Regent University School of Law after the school allegedly violated his client's free speech rights.
Gonzales Gets Stripped Of American Bar Association's "Lawyer of the Year" TitleThe ABA Journal posted an article titled "Lawyers of the Year 2007 & 2008" on ABA Journal.com, on Dec. 12, 2007. The article defined that term as the year's biggest legal newsmaker, identifying former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as the major newsmaker of 2007.
Lawyers Move to Kill Death Penalty...."We just do not have confidence in the capital justice system after studying it," Stephen Hanlon, chairman of the ABA's Death Penalty Moratorium Project, told ABC News.
Owen Wilson Eats Lawyers' Cookies and RunsActor Owen Wilson (Wedding Crashers, You, Me and Dupree, and the big-screen remake of Starsky & Hutch) had a hankering for a snack, and the American Bar Association was only too happy to help.
Legal Aid Offer for Detainees Is RetractedThe American Bar Association said this week that it was backing out of an agreement to find lawyers for Guantánamo detainees because it did not want to "lend support and credibility" to what it called inadequate legal protections for the 340 men held there.
UC Irvine Law's firing of Chemerinsky could threaten ABA accreditation, but was it also unconstitutional?Quoted text from the RSS feed which provides an article summary, not the article itself.
Controversy Escalates Over Mich. Law School's MoveA decision to move Michigan's Ave Maria School of Law to Florida has touched off a firestorm of controversy at the seven-year-old Catholic law school. A disagreement over the relocation has escalated in the past few months into a feud between the dean and several faculty memb …
Court Overturns Dismissal of "State Secrets" CaseIn an unusual move that may signal a new, more discriminating judicial view of the state secrets privilege, a federal appeals court has reinstated (pdf) a lawsuit which a lower court had dismissed after the government invoked the state secrets privilege.
Decisions Upend Judges' LivesMore than two years after enraging right-wing groups by ordering Terry Schiavo's feeding tube removed, George Greer still peers over his shoulder nervously at times.
When Vermont's, San Francisco's, and Other Cities' and Towns' Constituents Call For Impeachment of the President and Vice-President, Must Their Federal Representatives Listen?To take a prominent example, the voters of San Francisco adopted Proposition J, which "call[s] on [San Francisco's] elected federal . . . representatives to immediately invoke every available legal mechanism to effect the impeachment and removal from office of President George W.
DOJ Made Immigration Judgeships PoliticalThe authority used to bypass the competitive hiring process would be employed again and again during the last year of Attorney General John Ashcroft's tenure and continue when Alberto Gonzales succeeded him in 2005.
FBI Joins Second Life: The Law is on the Rise in Second Life - Associated ContentLawyers, The FBI, and The State Bar Association are the next organizations to join Second Life residents
Justice Department Scandal Spotlights Pat Robertson's Law SchoolRegent University School of Law, founded by televangelist Pat Robertson to provide "Christian leadership to change the world," has worked hard in its two-decade history to upgrade its reputation, fighting past years when a majority of its graduates couldn't pass the bar exam and …
Bush Uses Signing Statements to Leverage Power from Congress, CRS SaysThe Bush Administration's use of Presidential signing statements to assert objections to enacted legislation reflects an attempt to expand and consolidate Presidential authority at the expense of Congress, according to a new analysis (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service …
Dobbs: Why is the president ignoring our laws? - CNN.com - Jul 26, 2006"The American Bar Association claims President Bush has violated that oath by issuing hundreds of "signing statements" to disregard selected provisions of the laws that Congress passed and he signed."
Lawyers decry Bush's legal interpretationsPresident Bush's penchant for writing exceptions to laws he has just signed violates the Constitution, an American Bar Association task force says in a report highly critical of the practice.
Bar association task force urges Congress to push for judicial review of Bush signing statementsAlthough the president has not issued more statements in total than any other president, he has challenged more than 750 laws in more than 100 signing statements.
Group Objects to Bush's 'Signing Statements' - New York TimesIn a comprehensive report, a bipartisan 11-member panel of the bar association said Mr.
US Bar Association Urges Judicial review of Bush Signing StatementsA US Bar Association task force is to set recommend to Congress that legislation be created that would mandate a judicial review of signing statements as well as give Congress the authority to sue when they feel that a signing statement has been used to circumvent all or part of …
Affirmative Blackmail"The ABA orders law schools to practice racial preference--even if they have to break the law."
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