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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines June 25, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, June 25, 2009.

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Working pro bono to reverse conviction of John Connolly for Boston mob-related crimes

"Attorney James McDonald, former FBI agent and one-time federal prosecutor, has a nose for rats, rogue investigators and crooked informants. He also knows a government frame-up when he sees one, he claims, which is why he has spent the past three years working pro bono for former FBI agent John Connolly, who is currently in prison for convictions stemming from his relationship with mobsters Whitey Bulger, Steve Flemmi and Boston's Winter Hill Gang. Prosecutors allege that for years, Connolly protected his top mob informants, tipped them off to investigations, falsified FBI reports and accepted bribes."

 

Blogger arrested for threatening three federal judges

"A blogger and Internet radio host was arrested by the FBI in North Bergen, N.J., on Wednesday after urging the killing of three Chicago-based federal appellate judges who earlier this month declined in a court ruling to overturn laws banning handguns in Chicago and a nearby suburb. "

 

First online law grad admitted in Massachusetts

"An online law school graduate who sued the high court of Massachusetts for the opportunity to take that state's bar examination is now a newly minted Massachusetts lawyer. Last November, Ross Mitchell won his case against the state's Board of Bar Examiners, which denied his bid to bypass a requirement that U.S.-trained applicants be graduates of an American Bar Association-accredited law school. The court allowed Mitchell to sit for the bar because the ABA is mulling changes to its accreditation standards."

 

Iranian-American lawyers call for independent investigation of election

"One day after President Obama declared that the United States and other countries were 'appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings and imprisonments of the last few days' in Iran, the Iranian American Lawyers Association called for the creation of an independent commission to investigate human rights violations in the tumultuous aftermath of the June 12 election. The NLJ spoke with P. Patrick Ashouri, a member of the association's board of directors and a principal at Ashouri Law Offices in Mission Hills, Calif., about the proposed commission."

 

California's global warming suit melts away

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has granted California Attorney General Jerry Brown's motion to voluntarily dismiss the state's global warming lawsuit against six of the nation's largest automobile manufacturers" 

 

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).