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Christian Science Monitor
January 11, 2018
Whether it is obtained unlawfully or not is beside the point, according to Nancy Gertner, a Harvard Law School lecturer who served as a federal judge from 1994 to 2011, since the practice transfers the decision of what information gets disclosed to defendants from judges to law enforcement and prosecutorsÃÂ ...
wgbh.org
January 8, 2018
U.S Attorney General Jeff Sessions is ending an Obama-era policy that kept federal law enforcement from prosecuting federal marijuana laws, a move that could disrupt the new cannabis industry states like Massachusetts.. Harvard Law School lecturer and retired federal judge Nancy Gertner says there's aÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
December 25, 2017
TO SAY THAT President Trump cannot be charged with obstruction of justice in connection with James Comey's firing just because the president had the authority to fire him — as Trump's counsel John Dowd says — is simply wrong. Here's Dowd's argument: When the president exercises his constitutionalÃÂ ...
Harvard Law School News
December 15, 2017
Now Stevenson '85, a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, is about to embark on a fight outside the courts to start a ... Among the panelists were Nancy Gertner, senior lecturer on law at the Law School and a retired U.S. district judge; Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb ProfessorÃÂ ...
Harvard Crimson
August 31, 2017
Four Harvard Law School faculty members are pushing for the Department of Education to revise Obama-era Title IX standards governing how universities respond to ... Law School professor Janet E. Halley, pictured in 2015, has long been opposed to anti-sexual assault policy at Harvard and nationwide.
The Boston Globe
August 28, 2017
Donald Trump was joined by Maricopa County, Ariz.., Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a new conference in Marshalltown, Iowa, during last's year presidential campaign. President Donald Trump has pardoned Arpaio following the former sheriff's conviction for intentionally disobeying a judge's order in an immigrationÃÂ ...
Harvard Law School News
August 28, 2017
The four scholars — Janet Halley, Jeannie Suk Gersen '02, Elizabeth Bartholet '65, and Nancy Gertner — have researched, taught, and written on Title IX, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and feminist legal reform. They were among the 28 Harvard Law School professors who published a statement inÃÂ ...
Harvard Law School News
June 9, 2017
Nancy Gertner, a retired federal judge in Massachusetts who is now a senior lecturer at Harvard Law School, spoke with the Gazette about the legal issues swirling around the matter. GAZETTE: Does the totality of Comey's contacts with the president meet the legal standard for obstruction-of-justice orÃÂ ...
WBUR
June 6, 2017
Former FBI director James Comey is expected to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. Among the questions swirling: Whether President Trump asked Comey to end the FBI investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. If true, many Democrats say that amounts toÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
April 3, 2017
It is boring, hardly likely to engender indignation. He says his decisions are required by the law — not affected by his own background. He is Judge Neil Gorsuch and he may soon be on the Supreme Court. Don't be fooled. His approach is not neutral, not required by the law, and far out of the mainstream.
Harvard Magazine
December 13, 2017
Stevenson's talk reminded Tommie Shelby, Titcomb professor in African American studies and philosophy, of Martin Luther King and the “inseparable twins” ... Nancy Gertner, a retired U.S. judge and senior lecturer at Harvard Law School, deplored the mandatory sentencing rules that reduce defendants toÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 5, 2017
“O.C.R.'s rationale” was that preponderance of evidence “was the standard for suits alleging civil rights violations like sexual harassment,” wrote Nancy Gertner, a retired federal judge and current Harvard law professor, in The American Prospect in 2015. “True enough, except for the fact that civil trials atÃÂ ...
Bloomberg Big Law Business
November 19, 2017
... is immersion, Frederic I. Lederer, a law professor and director of the Center for ... and judges through the scene, reenacting in real time the sights and ... Judge Nancy Gertner at the Center for Legal and Court Technology, ...
Law360
November 14, 2017
... that it takes no position on the dispute between the law firm and Brown. ... A. Harpootlian PA, and Nancy Gertner of Harvard Law School.
The Recorder
November 13, 2017
Harvard Law School professor Nancy Gertner, a former federal judge, plans to join clergy leaders at 1 p.m. for a rally at the Grand Staircase.
Law360
October 31, 2017
By U.S. District Judge John McConnell October 31, 2017, 1:31 PM EDT ... "Unequal: How America's Courts Undermine Discrimination Law," by Sandra F. ... citing retired U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner, who wrote, “judges have made rules ...
VICE News
October 29, 2017
They'd each had small run-ins with the law, but the officers knew nothing ... advocates, and judges, and examined every federal excessive force civil ... Former federal Judge Nancy Gertner, who spent 17 years on the bench in ...
The Patriot Ledger
October 29, 2017
Former federal judge Nancy Gertner said she expects to see a detailed indictment so Mueller can “make clear” his investigation so far has been ...
Law.com
October 23, 2017
The esteemed former Boston federal district judge, Nancy Gertner, addressed a group of admirers at a gathering just after she left the bench to ...
Harvard Crimson
August 31, 2017
Four Harvard Law School faculty members are pushing for the Department of Education to revise Obama-era Title IX standards governing how universities respond to ... Law School professor Janet E. Halley, pictured in 2015, has long been opposed to anti-sexual assault policy at Harvard and nationwide.
Harvard Law School News
August 28, 2017
The four scholars — Janet Halley, Jeannie Suk Gersen '02, Elizabeth Bartholet '65, and Nancy Gertner — have researched, taught, and written on Title IX, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and feminist legal reform. They were among the 28 Harvard Law School professors who published a statement in ...
The Boston Globe
August 28, 2017
Donald Trump was joined by Maricopa County, Ariz.., Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a new conference in Marshalltown, Iowa, during last's year presidential campaign. President Donald Trump has pardoned Arpaio following the former sheriff's conviction for intentionally disobeying a judge's order in an immigration ...
Harvard Law School News
June 9, 2017
By Christina Pazzanese/Harvard Staff Writer, June 9, 2017 ... of which he said he shared with a Columbia University law professor and friend in an effort to ... Nancy Gertner, a retired federal judge in Massachusetts who is now a senior lecturer ...
WBUR
June 6, 2017
Former FBI director James Comey is expected to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. Among the questions swirling:Â ...
The Boston Globe
April 3, 2017
By Nancy Gertner April 03, 2017 ... An Administrative Law Judge from the Department of Labor, and then an Administrative Review Board, ...
POLITICO Magazine
December 31, 1999
As Harvard Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen wrote in the New Yorker, wanting to examine the evidence before coming to a conclusion has come to ... In August, four feminist Harvard Law professors—Gersen, Elizabeth Bartholet, Nancy Gertner and Janet Halley—released a paper, titled “Fairness for All,”à...
Harvard Law School News
December 31, 1999
Now Stevenson '85, a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, is about to embark on a fight outside the courts to start a ... Among the panelists were Nancy Gertner, senior lecturer on law at the Law School and a retired U.S. district judge; Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb ProfessorÃÂ ...
WBUR
December 31, 1999
That was the question before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court this week in the case of Han Nguyen, an MIT grad student who killed ...
The Boston Globe
December 31, 1999
By Nancy Gertner, Vincent Schiraldi and Bruce Western November 08, ... disparities because neutral judges' hands are tied by prosecutors, ...
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
September 20, 2017
Book asks judges what makes them make the decisions they do ... Judge Nancy Gertner, a former criminal defense and civil rights lawyer, relates how ... of facts and provides a fresh vantage point for the application of the law.
The Columbian
September 19, 2017
The Harvard law professors noted, “The procedures for enforcing these ... The four Harvard professors — Elizabeth Bartholet, Nancy Gertner,ÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
September 19, 2017
... said University of San Francisco law professor Susan Freiwald. ... Former federal judge Nancy Gertner, a senior lecturer at Harvard LawÃÂ ...
WBUR
September 14, 2017
And the opinion faulted trial Judge Denise Casper for instructions to the ... in its use of the federal law -- the so-called Hobbs Act — to prosecute alleged ... Either way, attorney and former federal Judge Nancy Gertner says theÃÂ ...
Clinton Herald
September 13, 2017
There is no reason to trust the Trump administration and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos when it comes to policing sexual assault on collegeÃÂ ...
The Daily Herald
September 12, 2017
The four Harvard law professors — Elizabeth Bartholet, Nancy Gertner, Janet Halley and Jeannie Suk Gersen — are self-described feminists.
The Daily Progress
September 12, 2017
Indeed, you could be a feminist legal scholar at Harvard Law School. Four such experts — Elizabeth Bartholet, Nancy Gertner, Janet HalleyÃÂ ...
Examiner Enterprise
September 11, 2017
The four Harvard law professors — Elizabeth Bartholet, Nancy Gertner, Janet Halley and Jeannie Suk Gersen — are self-described feminists.
Tampabay.com (blog)
September 10, 2017
Indeed, you could be a feminist legal scholar at Harvard Law School. Four such experts — Elizabeth Bartholet, Nancy Gertner, Janet HalleyÃÂ ...
HITC
March 27, 2017
... judge denied in March. The prosecutor then appealed the ruling. "The notion there is no remedy when an officer of the United States [lies] in an affidavit is extraordinary," Ganek's lawyer and former federal judge Nancy Gertner told the three-judge ...
WBUR
March 22, 2017
Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2017, for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Boston Globe
March 14, 2017
Trump won't release his taxes, despite campaign promise, aide says ÷ Republicans block bid to force Trump to release tax returns ÷ Dean Baquet, Bob Woodward say they would risk jail time to publish Trump's tax returns ÷ Nancy Gertner: Why some 'secrets ...
WBUR
March 2, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the National Association of Attorneys General annual winter meeting on Tuesday in Washington.
WBUR
March 1, 2017
The Rising Anger Against Expertise. U.S. Naval War College professor Tom Nichols examines why so many Americans vehemently reject expert opinion and how that places our democracy at risk.
The Boston Globe
February 27, 2017
President Trump frequently complains about Washington leaks. But what he is really concerned about is that these leaks are not random.
The Boston Globe
February 24, 2017
The award is named after the late publisher of the Providence Journal who passed away in 2005, and past recipients have included US Senator Patrick Leahy; former federal judge Nancy Gertner; former Globe editor Marty Baron; James Risen and AnthonyÃÂ ...
WBUR
February 20, 2017
A ruling out of Concord District Court calls into question the accuracy of breathalyzer machine tests in Massachusetts and could impact 20,000 drunken-driving cases in the state.
CNBC
February 14, 2017
With celebrity attorney Barry Scheck and former federal Judge Nancy Gertner in his corner, Ganek argues in the case that the affidavit in support of putting Ganek on the search warrant contained "false statements" that Ganek knew about alleged insiderÃÂ ...
WBUR
February 9, 2017
On Wednesday, Gov. Charlie Baker nominated state Appeals Court Judge Elspeth "Ellie" B. Cypher to serve on the Supreme Judicial Court.
The Boston Globe
February 9, 2017
Nancy Gertner, a Harvard Law professor and former judge for the US District Court of Massachusetts, agreed, saying the judge would have to have been somehow involved in the case before he or she was on the bench. Gertner said that once a justice isÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 6, 2017
A legislative effort to remove the law in Virginia failed in 2014. Nancy Gertner, a lecturer at Harvard Law School and a former federal judge, said fornication laws often stay on the books only because they are enforced so infrequently that they have ...
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