Topic: Richard Posner
Verna Sadock/AFP/Getty Images. Courtroom sketch shows Conrad Black appearing before US District Judge Amy St. Eve.. . Last Friday, Judge Amy St...
Image by Julien_e via Flickr. . In the vitriolic debate surrounding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and everything from its funding...
Internet radio shock jock Harold (Hal) Turner was sentenced Tuesday to 33 months in prison for threatening three federal judges.. . Federal Judge...
In the United States during 1999, several noteworthy court decisions were handed down concerning, at least indirectly, the rights of consumers. In one case, an antitrust case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, District Court Judge Thomas P. Jackson released ...
(V?clav Havel) I look around myself and wonder, where are we going. With fear we willingly bend ourbacks for a pittance, we allow our children to fall into despair, we allowgreed to overcome the world.I do not and will not ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. judges reviewing former media mogul Conrad Black's conviction on Wednesday questioned whether jurors found him guilty of depriving shareholders of his "honest services" or of being a thief.The distinction is crucial to Black's effort to ...
Gary Becker and Richard Posner debate a timeless question: Will the next generation be better off than their parents' generation? Becker's take: "America has always been optimistic about its future. " Posner, meanwhile, offers a slightly different take: "[B]ut I do ...
Jim Beck over at the Drug and Device Law blog writes about a decision by Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner that exposes a central flaw in much of the pharmaceuticals litigation today: Drugs have side effects, and children's ...
A jury in Brooklyn found right wing radio talk show host and blogger Hal Turner guilty of threatening to murder three federal judges, Friday:. "Turner was arrested and charged in June 2009 for writing Internet postings that month that proclaimed "outrage" over ...
Had Copernicus been too terrified to publish his theory of heliocentrism, how long would it have taken people to realize that Earth, in fact, revolves around the Sun? Had U.S. Secretary of State William Seward folded to public scrutiny and not ...
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Judge Richard Posner - Part 1
Judge Richard Posner presented at the third annual conference on ...2009-10-10 -
Judge Posner on WikiLeaks - Pt 3 ...
chicagohumanities.org - See more Chicago Humanities Festival events. Judge Richard ...2011-11-30 -
Richard Posner and Sam Peltzman Part ...
Milt hosts a discussion about our current economic woes with ...2009-06-15
