News & Politics

Arapahoe, Colorado County Clerk Tracy Butler is trying to block the release of some six hundred luridly sexual emails he exchanged on his work computer with his female deputy. Doh! TheDenverChannel.com reports it here. UPDATE: A court has blocked the release of the emails for 20 days, giving Mr. Butler an opportunity to appeal the earlier court order saying they should be released, according to this.

Boston law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault has just laid off 34 1st and 2nd-year associates — or nine percent of its total lawyers, according to this.

The small firm netted between $2 and $3 billion in fees. Now it has split apart, with former partners suing each other. The fight includes disputes over the firm’s $18 million Falcon 50 corporate jet (one of several), and has the former partners calling each other endearing diminutives such as “antichrist” and “dictator,” according to this article.

The recent arrest of one leader and the death of another has thrown some groups into turmoil. But such turmoil often results in acts of violence by members, according to this.

Sooner or later (perhaps sooner . . .), Chief Justice Rehnquist will retire. How will “The Rehnquist Era” be viewed in the future? This interesting article argues that Rehnquist will be remembered for the blossoming of federalism and for “breathing new life into the 10th Amendment.” It discusses what may be the genesis the movement spearheaded by Rehnquist — his dissent in an obscure 1975 decision, Fry v. United States. Duke University law Professor H. Jefferson Powell says: “What was viewed in Fry as basically a lunatic position has now become orthodoxy. Chief Justice Rehnquist has shifted the center of the discussion so far it would take a long time to shift it back. He took the long view, and he has won.” For better or worse . . . .

She tried to argue that the insurer who provided her client’s health insurance through his employer was his “constructive employer.” Now she’ll have to personally pay the insurer’s legal fees, including a “lodestar,” according to this.

The DA, once dubbed “America’s deadliest DA” for her lust for the death penalty, has repeatedly slammed judges in the press for being too lenient on criminals. Now the judges may slam her back, according to this.

An attorney has filed an application for an injunction in U.S. District Court to force Qualcomm Stadium to comply with the terms of a 2001 settlement in which it agreed to improve access for the disabled, according to this at overlawyered.com.

A court in Detroit has held that Ford Motor Credit Co. is responsible for unpaid parking tickets on cars it leased to customers because it remained the owner of record of the vehicles, according to this.

A 66 year old Iowa stock broker spent more than $330,000 on his fiance before she dumped him. Now he’s suing to get his “investment” back, according to this.