Mr. Dworkin was also a widely read public intellectual, writing essays on such issues as abortion, campaign finance and Supreme Court confirmation hearings, frequently for the New York Review of Books.
Americans for Prosperity and their supporters as well as labor unions and their allies are taking advantage of the 2010 landmark Supreme Court campaign finance ruling that found the "government may not suppress political speech on the basis of the speaker's corporate identity, " freeing up corporations and unions to use their vast resources to have a say in elections.
And the choice of Paul Kirchhof, a former judge on the Constitutional Court, for the finance portfolio may turn out to be not such a good idea.
The country's finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, told the Court that sometimes things needed to be decided fast and in secret.
That's why, working with people like Dick Durbin, who's been vocal on this for a long time, we've got to confront the gaping loophole that the Supreme Court recently opened in our campaign finance laws that allowed special interests to spend without limit to influence American elections.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Takes Questions from Senate Democrats
Nor do officials think there is any risk that the Bank of England will be taken to court for illegally helping the government to finance its deficit.
Among the other 104 Barclays employees whose requests for anonymity in the case were rejected in the High Court by Mr Justice Julian Flaux were finance director Chris Lucas, the investment banking head Richard Ricci, and the former head of regulatory compliance Stephen Morse.
Iceland's Finance Minister Steingrimur Sigfusson said that resolving the row in court would take at least a year.
Last month, the European Court of Justice annulled a decision by EU finance ministers to suspend action against Germany and France over budget deficits.
The court was told by Jonathan Smith, a finance office at the House of Lords, that 90% of peers claimed expenses and of that 90%, 85% claimed the maximum amount.
In his declaration to the court, Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's finance chief, said that in a conference call with himself and Mr Cook on February 6, 2013, Mr Einhorn had described the requirement for shareholder approval as a "roadblock that was not needed".
But the Supreme Court dashed that idea, summarily reversing the state court's decision without even bothering to hold any hearings about it. (The alternative, it has to be said, would have seemed deeply inconsistent.) The judgment was only a paragraph long, suggesting that Democratic hopes that the court will suddenly develop second thoughts on campaign finance are not grounded in the evidence.
Another explosion came with groups applying for 501(c)(4) status after the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling loosened campaign-finance restrictions in January 2010.
In Citizens United, the Supreme Court simply removed an unworkable addition to campaign-finance laws that prohibited corporations and unions from engaging in political speech before an election.
FORBES: Calm Down, Liberals: SCOTUS Isn't Going To Remove Contribution Limits
The letter (an example of which is attached, as is the list of recipients) was prompted by the recent emergence in Western capital markets of Shariah-Compliant Finance (also marketed as "Islamic finance") and by a lawsuit now before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The perils of Shariah-compliant finance
Japanese consumer finance stocks have had a terrible stretch since the country's Supreme Court ruled in January that lenders were exacting kabarai--usury, that is.
In other key decisions this term, the court stripped away a key part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law.
On August 9, a federal district court judge in California ruled (PDF) that the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) violated federal law when it decided, without public notice or opportunity for stakeholders to comment, in July 2010, not to underwrite mortgages on homes with property assessed clean energy (PACE) loans.
FORBES: Court Victory Boosts Prospects For Residential Clean Energy PACE Programs
The court this term gutted a key provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law that had been upheld just three years ago.
The Supreme Court's ruling considerably loosens an important provision of the 2002 campaign finance act, sponsored by Republican Senator John McCain and Democrat Russ Feingold.
The prices of shares in the biggest consumer-finance companies are between 6% and 27% lower than they were before the Supreme Court's ruling.
One case which could land the court smack in the middle of presidential politics next year is the one concerning campaign finance.
The decision by Chief Justice John Roberts comes a year after the court caused an uproar with its Citizens United opinion broadening the rights of corporations to finance political campaigns.
FORBES: Supreme Court Rules Corporations Don't Have Privacy Under FOIA
If the chief justice really is becoming more critical of restrictions on money in politics, that would leave the court split down the middle, with four opponents and four supporters of campaign-finance reform.
ECONOMIST: A controversial old debate returns to the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has now accepted that invitation, leading many experts to worry that the latest blow to campaign finance laws in about to descend.
FORBES: SCOTUS Poised To Take Next Step On the Road To Total Political Domination By The Wealthy?
The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the case that opens the door to the final destruction of the campaign finance laws that place a limit on how much money an individual can contribute directly to a federal candidate or national political party.
FORBES: SCOTUS Poised To Take Next Step On the Road To Total Political Domination By The Wealthy?
应用推荐