Between the political campaigns and the latest terrorist threat from Yemen, there was this story out of a Manhattan courtroom.The good news: A mother wasn’t held responsible for the actions of her 4-year-old daughter, at least not legally. The bad news: The little girl is going down.A state Supreme Court judge ruled that the girl, [...]
In a startling sideshow to the courtroom battle over the buyout of EMI Group, Judge Jed S. Rakoff, pictured, erupted at lawyers for Guy Hands on Thursday, saying that he had “serious questions” about “whether an attempt was made to mislead the court” over the job title of a colleague of Mr. Hands’s. Mr. Hands, [...]
A federal judge in California has refused to delay her order stopping enforcement of the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” rule, which bars gays from serving openly in the armed forces. The Justice Department is expected to appeal Judge Virginia Phillips denial of the request for a stay to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals [...]
Military recruiters have been directed to start signing up gay men and lesbians who apply for the armed forces — and also to regard the don’t ask, don’t tell law as suspended until the fate of the controversial policy is settled by the courts or Congress. Meanwhile, a federal judge who earlier found don’t ask, [...]
Loyal DealBook readers know that Judge Jed S. Rakoff runs a lively courtroom. Judge Rakoff has recently overseen several prominent cases, including the Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against Bank of America over executive bonuses. Judge Rakoff, 67, now finds himself presiding over the courtroom battle between the British financier Guy Hands and Citigroup and he [...]
Challenges to the new health care reform law can go forward after a federal judge in Florida rejected the Obama administration’s bid to throw out the leading lawsuit against the overhaul. The ruling Thursday by U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson was a procedural one and did not decide on the constitutionality of the law, only [...]
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