By: Steve Lash
Welcome to Monday and a reminder to reserve your infield spot for Saturday. Here are some news items to get your week started.
– Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticizes Roe v. Wade.
– The family of NHL player sues National Hockey League for wrongful death.
– Male lawyers will don stilettos to make a point.
– The family behind the Bananas Foster fights over its New Orleans restaurant.
By: Steve Lash
Welcome to Monday, the 98th anniversary of Baltimore native Babe Ruth’s first major league home run. Here are some news items to get your week started.
– The West, Texas, fertilizer plant was woefully under insured.
– Is there “a fundamental right … to engage in intimate contact“?
– A new book on The Roberts Court will hit stores this week.
– Businesses speak well of the aforementioned court.
By: Steve Lash
Welcome to the final Monday of April, a day to recall singing siblings. Here are some news items to get your week started.
– Russian parole hearings can get messy.
– Michael Jackson’s family heads to court in case against concert promoter.
– Fired football coach wins nearly $3.5 million court award — in England.
– Justice Clarence Thomas was a fan of country crooner George Jones.
By: Steve Lash
Welcome to Monday, and the 110th anniversary of the first game played by the New York Highlanders (later, and better known, as the Yankees). Here are some news items to get your week started.
– Where should Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be tried?
– Should Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy apologize to gun makers?
– Does a car passenger have the right to leave the vehicle after the driver’s arrest for alleged drunk driving?
– Justice might be delayed but not denied in Brazil.
By: Steve Lash
Welcome to Monday and the final day of the 2013 Maryland General Assembly session. Here are a few news items to get the week started.
– The dean of the Supreme Court press corps explains the same-sex marriage cases to a foreign audience.
– The National Football League will urge federal judge to kick a lawsuit out of court.
– A friend’s call for a Navy investigation of an alleged suicide sounds like an “NCIS” episode.
– New York politicians urge city to settle lawsuit that followed 1990 attack on Central Park jogger.
By: Steve Lash
Welcome to the Monday following a Blast of a weekend. Here are some items to get your week started.
– The Tennessee Legislature also has a dogfight.
– Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hits the big 8-0.
– Gideon v. Wainwright hits the half-century mark.
– Israelis urge President Barack Obama to free a spy.
By: Steve Lash
Welcome to the first Monday in a month of madness. Here are some news items to get your week started.
– Wrongful foreclosures on military members exceed estimates.
– Do the opponents of Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage in California, have standing?
– Red-light camera company faces storm of corruption allegations in the Windy City.
– Michelob maker mounts media campaign amid lawsuits alleging the company waters down its beer.
By: Steve Lash
Welcome to the final Monday of January. Here are some news items to get your week before the big game started.
– Military lawyer clashes with Obama administration over breadth of war crimes.
– Muslim students file First Amendment appeal in California.
– Wall Street receives advice on dealing with the Justice Department.
– Another “M” state debates the death penalty.
By: Steve Lash
Welcome to Monday and a week that features Thanksgiving, a holiday dedicated to family, food and football.
Speaking of which, the Dallas Cowboys will play Washington’s football team on Thursday, which reminds me of a similar game in 1974. Two words: Clint Longley.
But I digress. Here are some news items to get your week started.
– A desperate housewife loses her appeal.
– A retired general hires an attorney.
– A California slaughterhouse agrees to a $300,000-plus settlement.
– A former Chicago detective gets an eight-year prison sentence for two drunken-driving deaths.
By: Ray Frager
One of the arguments being advanced against the NCAA penalties on Penn State for its action and inaction related to the Sandusky crimes is that athletes, coaches and administrators who had nothing to do with the transgressions will be unfairly punished.
This is a point heard time and again about any penalties meted out by the NCAA. It’s the nature of college sports that the bad actors are often long gone by the time the NCAA finishes investigating rules violations.
For example, football coach Pete Carroll and star running back Reggie Bush had moved on to the NFL before the NCAA penalized the University of Southern California for violations that occurred when both were at USC. (Carroll has denied any involvement in “extra benefits” for Bush, who has not admitted he broke NCAA rules.)
The problem with this argument is that, taken to its logical conclusion, the NCAA could almost never punish anyone. Sanctions nearly always hit another set of athletes who weren’t even around when the violations happened. There’s often a new coach, because the rule-breaking cost the old one his job. And if enough bad stuff has happened, there may be a new set of athletic department administrators, too.
Criticize the NCAA all you want — and there is plenty to pick at — but if it’s going to be charged with enforcing rules, it’s an unfortunate byproduct of the system that a new group will pay for the sins of its predecessors.
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