(Kenneth Starr, then Solicitor General, had maintained in the government's brief opposing certiorari that his prior purchase of the Bare Boys magazines was all the proof it needed, even if the action were legal at the time.
QPR, thought to be one of the clubs which backed the solicitors, Brabners, to issue a legal threat recently opposing the Championship's financial fair play rules, appear to have a major problem complying with the FFP limits on losses, £8m this season.
Also on Monday, a DPP solicitor who opposed one of Monis' bail applications was accused of "fundamentally misunderstanding" the way bail operated in murder cases.
The attorney general, the attorney general's department and the Australian government solicitor all opposed disclosure of the documents subject to the FOI request.
Olson, a Republican (and former U.S. Solicitor General), and Boies, a Democrat, are the dream team who led opposing legal camps in Bush v. Gore when that case was before the Court, in 2000, deciding the election for President Bush by a vote of 5-4.
Opposing them, acting on instructions from the bulk of the Tichborne family, were John Duke Coleridge, the Solicitor General (he was promoted to Attorney-General during the hearing), and Henry Hawkins, a future High Court judge who was then at the height of his powers as a cross-examiner.
Former Michigan Solicitor General, John J. Bursch, argued for the Respondents, the Ohio Department of Health, which had taken a position opposing same-sex marriage rights.
Bagenstos said he and the other former lawyers were particularly concerned that the Solicitor General's Office, which had presumably signed off on the earlier appellate-court brief opposing the Ohio law, had now reversed course.
For partners who voted different ways in the referendum, the difficulty of reconciling opposing political views may be the final straw, said Nigel Shepherd, the chair of Resolution, which represents solicitors and those involved in family law across England and Wales.
His last year has been one long, strenuous series of pirouettes, beginning with a reversal of his (Republican) position of opposing labor's favorite project, card-check, and ending last week, when he found himself in the awkward position of praising Obama's new Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, after having voted against her confirmation as Solicitor General.
