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The Associated Press
February 3, 2006
Samuel Alito split with conservatives in a death penalty case on his first full day on the Supreme Court. Handling his first high court case, Alito sided with five other justices Wednesday evening in refusing to allow Missouri to execute inmate Michael Taylor. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas supported lifting an execution stay issued by an appeals court, but Alito sided with the majority in turning down Missouri's last-minute request for a late-night execution.
New York Law Journal
January 31, 2006
A rabbi's ongoing suit against the nonprofit group that allegedly got him fired from his job as a supervising kosher-meat inspector highlights the frequent tension between Jewish and state law. In denying the defendant's motion for summary judgment, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jane S. Solomon restated the oft-cited rule that in such conflicts, state law wins. "Parties are not free to evade the law by claiming that their decisions are inherently protected because they are religious in nature," she wrote.
The Associated Press
January 27, 2006
A leading Muslim scholar who opposes the war in Iraq has sued the U.S. government, claiming officials used anti-terrorism laws to stop him from accepting speaking invitations. In a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday, Tariq Ramadan accuses the government of manipulating the Patriot Act to muzzle him. Ramadan was blocked from accepting a tenured teaching position at the University of Notre Dame when his visa was revoked in 2004 under a provision of the Patriot Act, said Jameel Jaffer, an ACLU staff attorney.
Legal Times
January 25, 2006
Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito Jr. was voted out of the
Senate Judiciary Committee early Tuesday afternoon, with all 10
Republicans endorsing the 55-year old federal appeals court judge and
all eight Democrats opposing him. The strictly partisan committee vote
had been widely anticipated after Alito's weeklong hearings. The full
Senate will take up the Alito nomination this morning and could vote on
his confirmation as early as Friday.
New Jersey Law Journal
January 24, 2006
President Bush is expected to nominate four judges to the federal district court on Wednesday, ending a stalemate that's kept four seats vacant for a year. The standoff between Bush and New Jersey's two senators was over a Camden, N.J., seat vacated by U.S. District Judge Stephen Orlofsky last year. Last February, Bush nominated former Republican State Committee executive director Peter Sheridan of West Windsor, but the senators wanted someone from southern New Jersey for the post.