News Roundup (September 7, 2012)
Jeff Welty
It was a short week, but not a slow week. Here in North Carolina, the News and Observer has this story describing the increase in post-release supervision resulting from the […]
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September 7, 2012
It was a short week, but not a slow week. Here in North Carolina, the News and Observer has this story describing the increase in post-release supervision resulting from the […]
READ POST "News Roundup (September 7, 2012)"August 31, 2012
Results from the July bar examination are now available. Apparently, there were some, um, irregularities in the administration of the test. Above The Law reports that “[o]ne test site — […]
READ POST "News Roundup (August 31, 2012)"August 24, 2012
Can you name all nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court? Take a moment and test yourself before you read on. How did you do? If you were able […]
READ POST "News Roundup (August 24, 2012)"August 17, 2012
I’ve been traveling a fair bit lately, which made me especially receptive to this story about things the TSA has found on air passengers or in their luggage this year. […]
READ POST "News Roundup (August 17, 2012)"August 3, 2012
Here in Chapel Hill, the big news of the week is that the town’s ban on cell phone use while driving was struck down by a superior court judge. The […]
READ POST "News Roundup (August 3, 2012)"July 27, 2012
I feel like we’re living in East Texas, where summer consists of a long, unbroken string of 100 degree days with high humidity. Lucky for us, there are lots of […]
READ POST "News Roundup (July 27, 2012)"July 20, 2012
Some of you aren’t getting email notifications of new posts. Sorry about that. Our IT folks are working to resolve the glitch, but it may take a little time. I’ll […]
READ POST "News Roundup (July 20, 2012)"July 13, 2012
Over the past several days, the national news has been dominated by the issuance of an investigative report about the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, a topic I previously […]
READ POST "News Roundup (July 13, 2012)"June 29, 2012
Apparently the Supreme Court issued some sort of decision this week about broccoli, or health insurance, or something. But it wasn’t all mandates and Medicare: there were several significant criminal […]
READ POST "News Roundup (June 29, 2012)"June 22, 2012
The biggest news locally this week was the General Assembly’s passage of S 416, which will dramatically alter, if not effectively repeal, the Racial Justice Act. I summarized the bill […]
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