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California Court Corruption and The Illegal Solitary Confinement of Richard I Fine

January 3, 2010

Full Disclosure, with Producer Leslie Dutton, has followed the disbarment and confinement of Attorney Richard Fine. The details are shocking, and every citizen in the United States is in danger. View Leslie Dutton's Emmy-winning series, and then contact the Department of Justice. Betsy Combier

Luis Carlos Montalván, Iraq VET With a Service Dog, Is Attacked at McDonalds By Employees

November 27, 2009

Luis on the incident in January, 2009: members of the McDonalds staff began hurling insults in English and Spanish, and throwing plastic garbage can tops in our direction. Two employees punched me while on the sidewalk outside of McDonald's. In disbelief, I kept taking photos of them. As they stopped, I called the N...

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E-Discovery and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

November 13, 2009

Managing and organizing email and other electronically stored information for complex litigation is a new and important aspect of discovery.

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Community Meetings On Judicial Oversight Set To Begin

October 29, 2009

The National Forum On Judicial Accountability (NFOJA) is coordinating this historical effort. In addition to deterring judicial misconduct, NFOJA's proposed legislation would provide venues for addressing alleged judicial misconduct ". . . that do not rely almost exclusively for effectiveness on judicial integrity."

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US President Barack Obama Opposes a Shield Law For Reporters

October 11, 2009

The administration this week sent to Congress sweeping revisions to a “media shield” bill that would significantly weaken its protections against forcing reporters to testify.

Questions Arise in New York City About Lobbying and Queens' Willets Point

August 22, 2009

Local development corporations range from tiny neighborhood groups to giant quasi-public agencies like the city’s Economic Development Corporation. These loosely regulated organizations are designed to encourage businesses and industry to invest in local areas. But one thing they are not supposed to do is lobby. Sta...

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Causes of the Current Financial and Economic Crisis by Robert Siegel, President, Cabot Capital

July 14, 2009

The push for de-regulation started during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. During its second half, the Carter administration tacked sharply rightward in both domestic and international policy. With the unrelenting urging of his Economic Czar, Alfred Kahn, Jimmy Carter implemented a wave of de-regulation across a var...

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Former Judge Sol Wachtler On the Myth of Judicial Activism

July 13, 2009

We would like to unmask the myth by measuring the record of conservative Supreme Court justices against each element of the conservative judicial philosophy of judicial restraint. The conservative tenets may be sound but they have not always been practiced by conservative judges. Elected legislators, not unelected j...

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Ricci v. DeStefano Changes Employment Discrimination Law

June 30, 2009

The law of employment discrimination today is not what it was before 10 a.m. Monday, June 29, 2009, when the Supreme Court ruled against the City of New Haven for scrapping a fire department promotional exam that appeared to favor white test-takers. White firefighters in New Haven were subjected to race discriminati...

Edward Fagan Begs the New Jersey Supreme Court To Allow Him to Keep His License

June 17, 2009

Fagan's former client, Gizella Weisshaus, whose $82,000 was stolen from her by Mt. Fagan, travelled to Trenton on June 18, 2009, to hear Ed Fagan beg for his law license in New Jersey. Fagan has already been disbarred in New York State.

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The American Indian Charter Schools in California Teach To The Test, Mock Liberal Orthodoxy, and Produce Top Scores

May 31, 2009

Reporting from Oakland — Not many schools in California recruit teachers with language like this: "We are looking for hard working people who believe in free market capitalism. . . . Multicultural specialists, ultra liberal zealots and college-tainted oppression liberators need not apply." That, it turns out, is jus...

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Public/Private Ventures: Job Training That Works Study Initial Results

May 16, 2009

Job Training That Works presents the results of a two-year study conducted by P/PV with support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. The random assignment evaluation found that high-quality sector-focused job training programs produced significant impacts for participants, including increases in earnings and em...

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Supreme Court Issues Unanimous Decision in Fitzgerald v. Barnstable: Parents Can Sue School Officials Under Discrimination Laws

April 19, 2009

On March 3, 2008, the Fitzgeralds, parents of a child harassed on a school bus, took their case on to the Supreme Court. They did not challenge the adverse ruling on Title IX. Instead, their appeal focused on whether Title IX had displaced their right to sue for constitutional violations. The question presented: “Wh...

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New York's Appellate Division, First Department Remands, No Proper Review Of Child Support Agreement Under §516

April 8, 2009

The principal issue is whether petitioner is precluded from seeking to modify the terms of an agreement providing for the support of her nonmarital child because of the constraints of Family Court Act §516(a). The Court says the petition is granted to the extent of remanding the matter for a hearing on petitioner's ...

In the Stanford Group $8 Billion Ponzi Scheme, Whistleblower Leyla Basagoitia was Ignored

February 27, 2009

Leyla Basagoitia, who was fired from Stanford Group Company in 2002, told a broker-dealer arbitration panel that the firm was engaged in a Ponzi scheme, according to a document on the website of broker-dealer watchdog Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Robert Allen Stanford, 58, of Houston, Texas, is C...

The Federal Government Wins Detention For Disbarred Lawyer Arthur Nadel

February 26, 2009

"If the defendant can't be trusted not to flee," Judge Cote said, "then the taxpayers have provided a mechanism to deal with that situation. That's detention."

Obama's Justice Department Wants to Have the Court Dismiss the Bush E-mail Case

February 22, 2009

Two advocacy groups suing the Executive Office of the President say that large amounts of White House e-mail documenting Bush’s eight years in office may still be missing, and that the government must undertake an extensive recovery effort. They expressed disappointment that Obama’s Justice Department is continuing ...

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Clash of the Public School Titans in Washington DC

February 1, 2009

American Federation of Teachers' President Randi Weingarten and Washington DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee are set to go head-to-head when the DC teachers' union unveils its contract proposal. At stake is not only the fate of Rhee's ambitious attempt to transform the District's failing schools, but also a signif...

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is Voted Out of Office

January 30, 2009

Gov. Rod Blagojevich was thrown out of office Thursday without a single lawmaker coming to his defense, brought down by a government-for-sale scandal that stretched from Chicago to Capitol Hill and turned the foul-mouthed politician into a national punchline. Blagojevich, accused of trying to sell Barack Obama's vac...

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The U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Crawford v Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee That Employees Are Legally Protected Against Retaliation If Asked Questions During an Informal Investigation

January 27, 2009

U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter wrote, "If it were clear law that an employee who reported discrimination in answering an employer's questions could be penalized with no remedy, prudent employees would have good reason to keep quiet,"

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New Jersey Attorney Ethics Committee Recommends the Permanent Disbarment of Attorney Edward Fagan

January 23, 2009

In recent years, Fagan’s reputation has gone into a freefall. For years the first client he represented on the Swiss banks case, Holocaust survivor Gizella Weisshaus, 78, had alleged that Fagan stole money from the escrow account of her dead cousin Jack Oestreicher.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Files a Lawsuit Against the FIA Amendments Act of 2008

December 19, 2008

The FISA Amendments Act, signed into law this summer, amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to allow the government to intercept communications between U.S. citizens and people abroad without first obtaining a judicial warrant.

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Two Great Writers on America today: New York Times' Op-Ed Columnist Frank Rich on the Corruption and Michael Lewis on The End of Wall Street's Excesses

December 15, 2008

It’s a sad snapshot of our century’s establishment that Robert Rubin, the former Clinton Treasury secretary, has been an economic adviser to Barack Obama and Gramm to John McCain. And that both captains of finance remain unapologetic, unaccountable and still at their banks, which have each lost more than 70 percent ...

FBI is Pursuing an Investigation of Joe Bruno, Former New York Senate Majority Leader...and Political Leaders are Worried

November 29, 2008

Several subpoenas were issued in recent weeks and shortly before the November elections, according to recipients and people close to individuals receiving the orders, which required secret testimony at the U.S. Courthouse in Albany. Jack Werk, a thoroughbred horse expert from California, said Friday he flew here in ...

Bernard Spitzer, Eliot's Dad, is on Trial For Racial Discrimination in New York City

November 28, 2008

Bernard Spitzer testified he had nothing to do with the firing of four African-American employees who filed a lawsuit in 1999 claiming they lost their jobs because of the color of their skin. The four men, who worked as doormen or porters at the 34-story building located at 150 E. 57th St., are seeking $2 million ea...

No Child Left Behind Law and the Challenge of Meeting the Needs of Title 1 Schools and Special Needs Children

October 26, 2008

Th e assessment and data reporting systems put in place as a result [of No Child Left Behind] have been crucial to our understanding how deep that challenge is, and how much needs to change in how we organize instruction. But they have also allowed us to identify schools and districts that have something to teach u...

Current Events

California Court Corruption and The Illegal Solitary Confinement of Richard I Fine

Luis Carlos Montalván, Iraq VET With a Service Dog, Is Attacked at McDonalds By Employees

E-Discovery and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Community Meetings On Judicial Oversight Set To Begin

US President Barack Obama Opposes a Shield Law For Reporters

Questions Arise in New York City About Lobbying and Queens' Willets Point

Causes of the Current Financial and Economic Crisis by Robert Siegel, President, Cabot Capital

Former Judge Sol Wachtler On the Myth of Judicial Activism

Ricci v. DeStefano Changes Employment Discrimination Law

Edward Fagan Begs the New Jersey Supreme Court To Allow Him to Keep His License

The American Indian Charter Schools in California Teach To The Test, Mock Liberal Orthodoxy, and Produce Top Scores

Public/Private Ventures: Job Training That Works Study Initial Results

Supreme Court Issues Unanimous Decision in Fitzgerald v. Barnstable: Parents Can Sue School Officials Under Discrimination Laws

New York's Appellate Division, First Department Remands, No Proper Review Of Child Support Agreement Under §516

In the Stanford Group $8 Billion Ponzi Scheme, Whistleblower Leyla Basagoitia was Ignored

The Federal Government Wins Detention For Disbarred Lawyer Arthur Nadel

Obama's Justice Department Wants to Have the Court Dismiss the Bush E-mail Case

Clash of the Public School Titans in Washington DC

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is Voted Out of Office

The U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Crawford v Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee That Employees Are Legally Protected Against Retaliation If Asked Questions During an Informal Investigation

New Jersey Attorney Ethics Committee Recommends the Permanent Disbarment of Attorney Edward Fagan

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Files a Lawsuit Against the FIA Amendments Act of 2008

Two Great Writers on America today: New York Times' Op-Ed Columnist Frank Rich on the Corruption and Michael Lewis on The End of Wall Street's Excesses

FBI is Pursuing an Investigation of Joe Bruno, Former New York Senate Majority Leader...and Political Leaders are Worried

Bernard Spitzer, Eliot's Dad, is on Trial For Racial Discrimination in New York City

No Child Left Behind Law and the Challenge of Meeting the Needs of Title 1 Schools and Special Needs Children

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