With the hindsight of history, it’s easy to forget that the guilty verdicts at the postwar Nuremberg Trials were not a foregone conclusion. Much of the credit for those verdicts goes to Thomas Dodd, a gifted prosecutor with a flair ...
Read More »Shrunken head fuels drama in ‘Nuremberg Letters’
By Margaret Carlson Bloomberg News With the hindsight of history, it’s easy to forget that the guilty verdicts at the postwar Nuremberg Trials were not a foregone conclusion. Much of the credit for those verdicts goes to Thomas Dodd, a ...
Read More »What Larry Craig wants, no judge or jury can give
If Minnesota judge Charles Porter Jr. does the expected, he will refuse to let Sen. Larry Craig take back his guilty plea for his now notorious men’s room encounter with an undercover cop. At that point, Porter will have saved ...
Read More »Napier: Now is the winter of this lawyer's discontent
Boy, the ugly head of the no-business monster can turn up when you least expect it. But this time I kind of saw it coming. Or, should I say, very little paying business. I’m stuck on a few domestic cases ...
Read More »Napier: The winter of a lawyer’s discontent
Boy, the ugly head of the no-business monster can turn up when you least expect it. But this time I kind of saw it coming. Or should I say, very little paying business. I’m stuck on a few domestic cases ...
Read More »Some advice for surviving the lawyer cocktail party
Some people think the most important thing to bring to a cocktail party is a stack of business cards. Wrong. The most important thing? Breath mints. Trust me on this. No one is going to want your business cards when ...
Read More »CPI’s lie on household inflation doesn’t wash
The U.S. consumer price index continues to be a testament to the art of economic spin. Since wages, Social Security cost-of-living increases and some agency budgets are tied to it, the government has a vested interest in keeping it as ...
Read More »Hillary and health care prove a toxic mix
When Hillary Clinton last took a stab at repairing America’s health-care system, advertisements featuring “Harry and Louise” — a fictional couple struggling to comprehend her proposal — aroused nationwide hostility. An overwhelming majority of Americans rejected her grand vision of ...
Read More »Questions for Greenspan that need better answers
It’s been all Greenspan, all the time for over a week now, what with news stories trickling out last weekend, official publication of the former Federal Reserve chairman’s memoir on Sept. 17, and a PR media blitz encompassing print, TV ...
Read More »Cautious Fed turns aggressive, surprises with 50
Federal Reserve officials chose to go the whole hog last week in response to a risk assessment, not a current reality. The Federal Open Market Committee reduced its target for the overnight lending rate by a half-percentage point, to 4.75 ...
Read More »High court employment rulings to have impact
Workplace related litigation accounts for about 40 percent of the civil docket of many federal courts. But the predominance of employment law cases is not reflected on the calendar of the U.S. Supreme Court, which annually hears a much smaller ...
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