Sidebar With an Expert Capital Litigator
On Tuesday, we learned the Associated Press had used the power of the press last week to discover that Besse Medical had been the supplier of sodium thiopental to Texas for use in its executions. Good work, AP.
The State of Texas fought to keep the identity of its new supplier secret – purportedly to protect the…
On January 21, 2011, via its website, Illinois drug manufacturer Hospira, Inc. fired a shot heard ’round the world as it announced in a short and sweet press release that it would no longer be making sodium thiopental (product name, Pentothal™). According to Hospira:
Hospira had intended to produce Pentothal at its Italian plant. … [W]e cannot
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Across the country, a lot of attention has been given to Kevin Fine, a trial court judge setting in Houston over a state criminal court. Texas has lots of criminal courts, and Houston’s Harris County has a number of folk presiding over the criminal bench — but Judge Fine has become somewhat famous from that number because he had the…
Since the inception of this blog, I have enlisted the services of Texas attorney and writer Reba Kennedy – not only because I don’t have the luxury of a set weekly schedule as a trial lawyer, but also because Reba understands things that I do not: using hypertext (what?), optimization for the search engines, all…
We’re all still waiting to see whether or not Illinois Governor Pat Quinn will sign into law the proposed legislation on his desk which would abolish capital punishment in that state. You can almost hear the sound of a thousand fingernails drumming impatiently on tabletops across the country ….
Meanwhile, over in Maryland it’s a…
On Tuesday, the Illinois State Senate sent a bill to the governor’s desk which will abolish the death penalty in that state … if Governor Pat Quinn will sign it.
Problem is, Governor Pat Quinn supports capital punishment. The next day, instead of signing the bill into law, Governor Quinn reported that he would listen…
Jared Loughner is accused of violating federal laws that carry with them the death penalty, and he’s already been charged with capital murder in a Phoenix federal courtroom. (Read the federal indictment here.) Arizona law has also been violated in this horrific crime, and the State of Arizona is planning its own separate prosecution of…
As the first week of 2011 unfolds, the Illinois Legislature is facing a huge budgetary crisis: it is $13 billion in the red, and this includes over $6 million of unpaid bills. If Illinois were a person, it would be getting a lot of bill collector phone calls.
In fact,Illinois is in very, very…