SC Justice robbed at vacation home

Posted on February 11th, 2012 by Leah Schonell and filed under Justice Points

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed last week by a machete-wielding intruder at his vacation home in the West Indies, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said Monday. The 73-year-old Breyer, wife Joanna and guests were confronted by the robber around 9 p.m. EST Thursday in the home Breyer owns on the Caribbean island of [...]

The ‘Moneyball’ of colleagueship

Posted on February 5th, 2012 by Leah Schonell and filed under Justice Points

All of a sudden, there was work to be done on deadline and I wasnt the only one who would be doing it. Where I used to mark up students papers with abandon and be the final (and only) arbiter of quality and subpar work, I would now actually be working with other people who [...]

GPS violated 4th Amendment, Supreme Court rules

Posted on January 21st, 2012 by Leah Schonell and filed under Justice Points

Attaching a GPS to a car for the purposes of gathering evidence is a search and is prohibited by the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.   The justices were unanimous in their opinion in U.S. v. Jones, but divided on the rationale.  While the majority based its holding on search and seizure law, [...]

City of London wins court bid to evict Occupy LSX protestors

Posted on January 12th, 2012 by Leah Schonell and filed under Justice Points

The City of London Corporation (COLC) has won its High Court bid to evict protestors from their camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral after Mr Justice Lindblom granted orders for possession and injunctions against protestors in December. The corporation filed High Court proceedings against the protestors in November, after the Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX) group [...]