Eugster Law & Comment

In an interview with Bill Moyers, Martha Nussbaum, speaking of the tragic sense of life said she thought ethics was founded upon an inner sense or hope that others could be trusted to be ethical, good.   I later read a comment in conjunction with her book The Fragility of Goodness  that
[s]he eventually rejects the Platonic notion that [...]

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Justice Scalia is critical of the New York Times regarding the Riegel v. Medtronics.  He says the paper does not pay attention to the essence of the case and instead reports it as expression of political power. 
An interesting criticism but the issue is really this — is the Court a political body or something else? We like to [...]

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The Scruggs Matter may provide food for understanding and speculation about the Oedipus Complex.
The Oedipus Complex has to do with the love - hate relationship of the child to the father or father figure. Freud, as I recall, speculated that the boy child wanted to replace the father in the affections of the mother. Maybe, [...]

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Judge Biggers does not seem to comport himself while acting from the bench with any sort of true detachment, objectivity, impartiality, understanding or compassion.
He seems to have taken the Scruggs matter personally. He seems intent on doing harm rather than doing justice.
Reading the transcript of the Dick Scruggs sentencing hearing one gets the impression Judge [...]

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It is interesting and perhaps telling that the bribe was proposed by a Mississippi judge. A judge who was earwigged by a close friend. A judge who then took his friend into his confidence and then, when the friend was hitting rock bottom financially and emotionally, proposed that his friend pay him a bribe - [...]

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Richard Scruggs and Sidney Backstrom were sentenced last week.

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Dickie Scruggs, his son and law partner are to be sentenced on July 2, 2008. Some Internet commenter’s take pleasure in this, in the fall of a man. In their pleasure there is obvious animosity toward the man and satisfaction in his fall. Seems such expressions tell more about the critics than it does about [...]

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Robert Coughlin has pled guilty. Justice Department, friend of Jack Abramoff. Involved in keeping the Abramoff prosecution in some check. Involved with Paul Minor prosecution. Where is the commentary?

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In a recent interview published in the Jackson Free Press, Bill Minor, the father of Paul Minor said this:
It is clear from recent events that the U.S. Department of Justice wascorrupt. Just yesterday, the former deputy director of the Public IntegritySection of the Department of Justice, Robert Coughlin who prosecuted Paul, wasaccused of taking bribes [...]

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Some of Judge Henry Lackey’s testimony or abridgements or paraphrases of the testimony can be found at Folo (I did not know the kind of monster we were dealing with . . .). Here is an interesting chunk. Cal Mayo is doing the questioning (but not very well it should be added, but maybe not [...]

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