Round-Up

An editorial in the Washington Post today argues that the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the House bill designed to “blunt the impact” of the Ledbetter v. Goodyear Supreme Court decision, goes too far in the opposite direction and could be an unnecessary burden on employers. Read the editorial’s suggestions for the companion Senate bill here.

This LA Times editorial exhorts the Bush administration not to file an amicus brief in support of the respondents in the upcoming Stoneridge case.

Colonel Morris Davis, chief prosecutor for the Military Commissions Office, writes his “Defense of Guantanamo Bay” for the Yale Law Journal’s Pocket Part, describing the facilities as clean and the prisoners as humanely treated.

Tony Mauro reports that Justice Kennedy spoke at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting yesterday, entreating his audience to spread fair legal principles throughout the world and not to allow a just system to be confined only to America and a few other countries. The Justice concluded, “There is injustice to be confronted. The work of freedom has just begun.” The local San Fransisco paper highlighted the Justice’s insistence that a lack of lawyers, paralegals and educated people makes it impossible to “say to some foreign country, ‘Here’s a red-white-and-blue package, the rule of law.'” The Associated Press had this take on Kennedy’s speech, writing that he “painted a dismal picture of injustice and lack of opportunity in much of the world” before calling on lawyers to do something about the injustices.