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Media Hits from 2006

12/11/2006 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Katrina Ruling at BestWire
Professor Adam Scales participated in a Q&A with BestWire concerning the recent decision by a federal judge to compensate policyholders for Katrina damage.


12/11/2006 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Katrina Ruling at FindLaw.com
Professor Adam Scales, serving as a guest columnist on FindLaw, addresses the recent decision by a federal judge to compensate policyholders for Katrina damage.


 11/28/2006 - Professor Mark Drumbl Discusses Hussein Trial on Charlottesville-Right Now
Mark Drumbl is the director of the Transnational Law Institute at Washington and Lee University, and a guest on the November 28th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. He and Coy Barefoot discuss the many trials Saddam Hussein will need to go through before actually being put to death, as well as how his trial has not helped the country unify. “The trial just isn’t that important for a lot of Iraqis and it certainly isn’t succeeding in curbing sectarian violence.” But Drumbl says that doesn’t mean Saddam Hussein should not continue to be prosecuted.


 11/28/2006 - Professor Mary Natkin Discusses Renewed Concern over Black Lung Disease in the Washington Post
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mary Natkin comments on coal dust limits and enforcement in mining operations. With coal production on the rise, Black Lung disease is receiving increased attention.


 11/8/2006 - Professor Timothy Jost Discusses Effects of Election Results on Health Care Reform in ABC News Survey
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Timothy Jost participated in a survey of health care experts conducted by ABC News to determine whether the midterm election results will lead to changes in health-care policy.


 11/6/2006 - Professor Doug Rendelman Comments on the Garnishment of Federally Protected Bank Accounts in the Roanoke Times
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Doug Rendelman comments on the banking practice of removing funds from a customer's bank account in order to repay judgment holders.


 10/19/2006 - W&L Law Professor Tim Jost is Featured Guest with ABC News's Dr. Tim Johnson on the Need for Universal Health Insurance
Professor Tim Jost, the Willet Family Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee School of Law, was the featured guest recently on ABC's "Healthy Life Series" with Dr. Tim Johnson.

ABC News has been running a special series of health care-related stories this week entitled, "Prescription for Change: Fixing America's Health Care System."


 10/18/2006 - Professor Timothy Jost Discusses Universal Health Care in ABC News Opinion
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Timothy Jost's opinion on universal health care coverage was featured on abcnews.com. Jost discusses fears Americans have concerning such a system and analyzes how these fears are answered by universal health care systems in other countries.


 10/17/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Discusses Reluctant Jurors in the Christian Science Monitor
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Scott Sundby discusses the reluctance of people to serve on a capital case jury more than once. The failure of people to respond to a jury summons is an acute problem facing the entire judicial system.


10/1/2006 - Professor Mark Drumbl Discusses the Nuremberg Trials in the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl's commentary on the 60th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trial verdicts was featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Drumbl says that Nuremberg began 60 years of international genocide prosecutions -- but that the prosecutions have not achieved Nuremberg's most important goal, to keep similar events from happening.


10/1/2006 - Professor Robin Wilson Discusses No-fault Divorce in New York Times Op/Ed
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson's Op/Ed on New York state's no-fault divorce rules appeared in the New York Times on October 1.


 9/28/2006 - Professor Mark Drumbl Discusses the Nuremberg Trials on NPR's All Things Considered
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl's commentary on the 60th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trial verdicts was featured on the NPR's All Things Considered. Drumbl says that Nuremberg began 60 years of international genocide prosecutions -- but that the prosecutions have not achieved Nuremberg's most important goal, to keep similar events from happening.


 9/25/2006 - Professor Robin Wilson Discusses Cohabitation in the Weekly Standard
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Robin Wilson discusses how the law treats marriage and cohabitation.


 9/25/2006 - Professor David Bruck Discusses Lethal Injection in the Virginia Pilot
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor David Bruck discusses lethal injection and whether the procedure constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.


 9/18/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Discusses Death Decision Effect on Jurors in the Star Tribune
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Scott Sundby discusses the death penalty decision process in the case of Alfonso Rodriguez, the man convicted in the abduction and murder of Dru Sjodin.


9/17/2006 - Professor David Bruck Discusses the Triggerman Rule in the Time-Dispatch
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor David Bruck discusses a bill to eliminate Virginia's long-standing triggerman rule, which would exposing more capital-murder accomplices to the death penalty.


 9/17/2006 - Professor Sally Wiant Discusses the Protection of School Logos in the Roanoke Times
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Sally Wiant discusses trademark abuse of school logos on clothing and other gear.


 8/29/2006 - Professor Mark Drumbl's Opinion Featured in Wall Street Journal
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl's letter to the editor concerning omissions in an editorial was published on August 29th in the Wall Street Journal.


 8/18/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Comments on Jonbenet Ramsey Case on NBC Affiliate WSLS, Roanoke
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Scott Sundby comments on the recent confession by a man claiming he killed Jonbenet Ramsey nearly ten years ago.


 8/18/2006 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Ruling for Katrina Insurers on FindLaw
Professor Adam Scales, serving as a guest columnist on FindLaw, addresses the recent decision by a federal judge who ruled that insurance companies do not have to pay for damage caused by flooding during hurricane Katrina.


8/16/2006 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Ruling for Katrina Insurers in the New York Times
Professor Adam Scales discusses the ruling by a federal judge that an insurance company's policies do not cover damage from flood waters or storm surge. This decision could affect hundreds of upcoming cases related to property damage from Hurricane Katrina.


8/4/2006 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Denied Insurance Claims in the New York Times
Professor Adam Scales discusses the "anti-concurrent causation" clause that has resulted in the denial of many insurance claims from Hurricane Katrina victims. (Free registration at the New York Times website may be required to view this story.)


 8/3/2006 - Professor Mark Drumbl Discusses Middle East Crisis on Popular Boston Radio Show
W&L School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl was the featured guest recently on "Stu Taylor on Business," a popular morning radio program on WBIX, Boston. Professor Drumbl spoke on the Middle East crisis.


 7/15/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Discusses His Book, A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty, in the St. Petersburg Times
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Scott Sundby discusses his book, A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty, which looks at the way the decision to impose the death penalty affects juries.


 7/12/2006 - David Bruck on Law.com discussing the Supreme Court and Death Penalty Disquiet
David Bruck on Law.com discussing the Supreme Court and Death Penalty Disquiet


 7/11/2006 - Law Professor Melissa Waters Returns to All Things Considered
As the trial of Saddam Hussein resumes, commentator Melissa Waters describes a phenomenon she calls "The Great Iraqi Walkout." She's seen it many times in her work training Iraqi judges and lawyers over the past three years, and Americans have seen it in the walkouts and boycotts conducted by the attorneys and co-defendants in Saddam Hussein's trial.


 6/29/2006 - Black Lung Clinic Profiled in Associated Press Story
The Black Lung Legal Clinic at the Washington and Lee University School of Law was profiled in an Associated Press story about compensation for black lung disease.


 6/15/2006 - Adam Scales on WDBJ-7 commenting on judgment against MTD Mowers
Adam Scales on WDBJ-7 commenting on judgment against MTD Mowers


 6/13/2006 - Melissa Waters in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Mirandizing Irag
Melissa Waters in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Mirandizing Irag


 6/13/2006 - W&L's Melissa Waters on NPR's All Things Considered
Assistant Professor of Law Melissa Waters discusses her work in training Iraqi lawyers, prosecutors, and judges on NPR's "All Things Considered" from Tuesday, June 13.


 6/9/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Comments on the Overturning of the Atkins Death Sentence in The Washington Post
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Scott Sundby commented on the overturned death sentence of Daryl Atkins, a Virginia man whose defense attorneys believe is mentally retarded.


 6/7/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Discusses how Mitigation Specialists can affect Jury Decisions in Salon Magazine
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Scott Sundby discusses how mitigation specialists can affect a death penalty decision by a jury. "[Juries] believe that even under adverse circumstances, every individual has the choice to do good or bad," says Sundby, who is also the author of "A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty." "When presented with strong mitigation evidence, they say, 'Well, he had a bad childhood. A lot of people have had a bad childhood, and they didn't murder.'"


5/31/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Discusses the Muhammad Verdict in the New York Times
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Scott Sundby comments on the guilty verdict in the case against sniper John A. Muhammad.


5/4/2006 - David Bruck on NPR's Morning Edition
David Bruck on NPR's Morning Edition


 5/3/2006 - Mark Drumbl on Charlottesville—Right Now, a news radio show on 1070 am WINA in Charlottesville
Mark Drumbl on Charlottesville—Right Now, a news radio show on 1070 am WINA in Charlottesville


 5/3/2006 - Scott Sundby in the Baltimore Sun
Scott Sundby in the Baltimore Sun


 4/18/2006 - Mark Drumbl's April 10 Interview on WMRA's Insight (NPR)
Mark Drumbl's April 10 Interview on WMRA's Insight (NPR)


 4/18/2006 - New York Times Op/Ed on Low-income Tax Credits by W&L School of Law Professor Dorothy Brown
LOW-INCOME taxpayers are audited by the Internal Revenue Service more often than their higher-earning counterparts. The reason for this is not politics, as is commonly presumed; nor is it that these taxpayers must be watched closely for fraud. The problem, as many people found out this week, is that the low-income tax credit is wildly complex.


 4/6/2006 - David Bruck on the Mousaui Trial, The Washington Post
David Bruck on the Mousaui Trial, The Washington Post


 4/3/2006 - Professor Robin Wilson Discusses Nanotechnology on Focus 580, University of Illinois Radio
Professor Robin Wilson Discusses Nanotechnology on Focus 580, University of Illinois Radio