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Man Sues Ex-Wife Over ‘Ugly’ Daughter, Wins
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A court in China has ordered a man’s ex-wife to pay him $120,000 for marrying him without disclosing that she underwent extensive plastic surgery before they met. So reports the New York Post.
Read more...Jerky Potential Juror Sent to Jail
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A trial court in Michigan last week sentenced a man to three days in jail for submitting a juror questionnaire form on which he wrote several hostile comments. So reports MLive.
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Arsenic Poisoning Conviction to Be Heard by High Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court this week will hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of convicting a woman based on her violation of the 1998 Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act. So Bloomberg reports.
Read more...Court Strikes Down Key Part of Texas Abortion Law
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A federal judge last week struck down provisions of a Texas abortion law restricting doctors’ use of RU486, a drug that induces abortions and requiring doctors to obtain admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic at which they're providing abortion services. So reports CNN.com.
Read more...The Lapses of Skakel’s Celeb Lawyer
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Kennedy-family member Michael Skakel’s 2002 conviction for the 1976 murder of his neighbor was overturned last month because a Connecticut judge held that Skakel’s attorney, the television legal commentator Mickey Sherman, did an inexcusably poor job defending his client despite being paid more than $1.2 million to do the job. So reports The New York Times.
Read more...Big Apple Law Protects Young Models
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo last week signed into law regulations that grant young print and runway models rights—including provisions for future financial security and offers of study time and snack breaks—that the Empire State had previously not afforded them. So Reuters reports.
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Law Review Articles Deserve Their Bad Rap: Studies
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Two new studies examine the legal community’s opinion of the primary repositories of legal scholarship, law review articles. So reports The New York Times.
Read more...Law Grad Loses Custody of Son Over Lone Job Offer
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A 2011 Cornell Law School graduate has lost custody of her son after accepting a clerkship with a trial judge in New Jersey, the lone job offer she got following a 9-month job search.
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Juror Flips Off Defendant
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A female juror "gave the finger" to one of three defendants in a case she was assigned. It happened outside the courthouse following a scuffle over a taxicab. So reports The New York Times.
Read more...Obamacare Rolls-Out Despite Gov't Shutdown
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While differences over the Affordable Care Act may have caused this month's government shutdown, the shutdown didn't stop the rollout of Obamacare. That’s because money designated for the launch was approved in a previous session of Congress and didn't have to be approved again. So reports CNN.com.
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