NJ Supreme Court Holds Case Records of Law School Clinics are not Public Records
On Thursday, a contentious and risky issue for law schools running law school clinics was decided by the New Jersey…
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Judicial Opinion: “(D)on’t Let a Pistol-Packing Mother Catch You Naked in Her Daughter’s Closet.”
The United States Court of Appeals for The Eleventh Circuit delivered the opinion on Friday in a case brought by…
Challenge to Gay Marriage Law Dismissed by NY Court
On Friday, the Appellate Division, Fourth Department dismissed a case challenging New York State’s same-sex marriage law. The case filed…
Copyright Royalty Board Structure Declared to be Unconstitutional
On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that the three-judge board of the…
Facebook Yahoo Settle Lawsuits, Tie up in Licensing Partnership
On Friday, Facebook Inc and Yahoo Inc buried the hatchet to settle lawsuits between them and agreed to form a…
Two Illinois Counties to Defend State Law Banning Same-sex Marriage
Illinois passed a law in 1996 declaring that marriage can take place only between a man and a woman. On…
Gender Bias Lawsuit for $100 million Filed against Forest Labs
On Thursday, four former Forest Labs employees sued the company for at least $100 million over alleged gender discrimination and…
Drunk Driver Sentenced to Reading and Summarizing the Old Testament book of Job
A widely-respected judge of South Carolina has come up with a creative and unusual way to be fair in sentencing.…
Is Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart Being Debarred by Maricopa County?
There seems to be a war going on between the Phoenix-based law firm of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,…
Lack of Funding Delays UNC-Chapel Hill’s New Law School Building At Satellite Campus
According to Jack Boger, the dean of the School of Law at UNC, $15 million had been appropriated to fund…
Court Denies “Editorial Privilege” to NY Post Over Chimp Cartoon
On February 18, 2009, the New York Post had carried a cartoon depicting a policeman shooting a crazy chimpanzee in…
Goldman Sachs Loses $20.6 Million Award Appeal
On Tuesday, the Goldman Sachs group lost an appeal against a $20.6 million award won by creditors of Bayou Group,…