Jan 25, 2010
Monday law blog round-up
By: Caryn Tamber
Happy warm-but-rainy Monday!
- Let’s move on from the Judge Nalley tire saga, writes Ron Miller.
- “Courts seem to have difficulty with the concept that a member of one minority group may discriminate against a member of the same group on the basis of ‘color,’” says Baltimore employment lawyer Mary Keating.
- Pennsylvania hasn’t executed anyone since 1999, even though governors have signed death warrants for many, many inmates over the years. HT: How Appealing.
- Manhattan’s a hotspot for people changing their names to go with their changed genders. (Sometimes, prisoners troll the name-change advertisements for dates. Yikes.) HT: Baltimore Crime.
- Does tossing bodily fluids and waste on the floor for prison staffers to clean up constitute assault? The New Hampshire Supreme Court will take up the question.
I think the “death penalty” should be used as it is given.
Whenever someone receives the death penalty in a court of law by a jury of his peers, he (SHE)should not be allowed to take so many appeals. We have to feed him, cloth him, give him a place to live with free medical treatment, and treat him with ‘kid gloves’ for over ten (10)years. These costs place the burden on the citizens of the area.