Barron is this year’s winner of the William E. Colby Award, a $5,000 honour given for a fiction or nonfiction book about the military, intelligence operations or foreign policy. Barron, a judge for the First Circuit Court of Appeals, was cited for “Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS.”
Category: First Circuit Court of Appeals
Court upholds state’s law on buffers around abortion clinics
A federal appeals court has upheld a New Hampshire law allowing buffer zones around abortion clinics that supporters say protect women from harassment. The law allowing buffer zones up to 25 feet has been on New Hampshire’s books since 2014, but no clinic has set up a buffer zone.
Mass. probation hiring scandal convictions overturned
A federal appeals court on Monday overturned the convictions of three former Probation Department officials, ruling that the government “overstepped its bounds in using federal criminal statutes to police the hiring practices of these Massachusetts state officials.” Former Probation Commissioner John O’Brien and former deputy commissioners Elizabeth Tavares and William Burke were convicted in 2014 for their roles in a patronage scheme in which they “abused the hiring process… in exchange for favorable budget treatment from the state Legislature and increased control over the Probation Department,” three U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit judges wrote in their opinion.