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LSAT Admin Pays Millions to Disabled Applicants
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The organization that administers the law school admissions test will pay $7.73 million to compensate the more than 6,000 individuals who requested accommodation for their disabilities during the last five years but were denied. So reports The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog.
Read more...Tenn. Reinstates 'Old Sparky'
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Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law a bill that allows Tennessee to electrocute death row inmates if the state can’t obtain the drugs necessary for lethal injection. So reports the Associated Press.
Read more...Fla. Appeals Court Stays Order Requiring Circumcision
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A federal appeals court has granted a Florida mom’s request for an emergency stay on a court order that her three-year-old son be circumcised. So reports the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.
Read more...Mass. Criminal Justice Lawyers Make Less Than Custodial Workers: Study
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With assistant district attorneys’ annual salaries starting at $37,500 and public defenders’ annual salaries starting at $40,000, Massachusetts pays its criminal justice lawyers less than it pays the custodial workers who work in the state’s courthouses, a new study shows. So reports the Boston Globe.
Read more...Actor Jason Patric Can Pursue Paternity Claim: Calif. Court
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A California appellate court has held that the actor Jason Patric may pursue a paternity claim over a 4-year-old boy who he fathered with his ex-girlfriend via in-vitro fertilization. So reports Time.
Read more...Annoying Speech Is No Crime: NY Court
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In a decision expected to have a huge impact on hundreds of harassment cases, New York’s highest court struck down a law that made it a felony to communicate with someone “in a manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm.” So reports The New York Times.
Read more...Steve Jobs’ Employee Retention Efforts Likely Violated Antitrust Law
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New revelations show that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was the driving force behind a conspiracy to prevent tech companies from poaching Apple’s employees. So reports The New York Times.
Read more...Toronto Wal-Mart StoresOffer Legal Services
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Several Wal-Mart stores in the Toronto area are now home to offices owned and operated by “Axess Law”—a discounted legal-services provider founded by two of the Canadian city’s lawyers. So reports the Toronto Star.
Read more...Exchange Student’s Death Renews Criticism of State’s Gun Law
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The criminal trial of a homeowner who shot and killed Diren Dede, a German exchange student who was trespassing in his garage, has focused political attention on a Montana “castle doctrine” self defense law. So reports The New York Times.
Read more...Scalia Publishes Dissent with Glaring Factual Error
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The first version of Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in EPA v. EME Homer City Generation released to the public contained an embarrassing factual error. That's according to a law professor from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in a piece written for the Washington Post.
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