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Chicago Firm Plays Week-Long Practical Joke on Summer Associates

As an icebreaker intended to give its summer associates something to bond over and discuss after hours, a 22-attorney firm in Chicago hired an actor to work and mingle among the law students summering at the firm as a fellow new hire. So reports the ABA Journal.

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WikiLeaks Culprit Wants to Live as a Woman

Bradley Manning, the Army private who was sentenced to 35 years in prison last week for leaking documents to the WikiLeaks website while working in Iraq in 2010, has announced he wants to begin living as a woman. So reports Today.com.

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NYC Stop-and-Frisk Practices Unconstitutional

A federal judge last week ruled that New York City police officers' stop-and-frisk practices—widely credited with lowering the city's crime rate—violate the constitutional rights of the city's minorities.

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'Blurred Lines' Creators Issue Preemptive Copyright Suit

Attorneys for pop star Robin Thicke and his co-collaborators on the song "Blurred Lines" last week filed a preemptive lawsuit asking a judge to determine that the ‘song of the summer’ doesn't infringe the copyrights of Marvin Gaye song “Got to Give It Up” and George Clinton song “Sexy Ways.” So reports the New York Daily News.

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Vaginal Mesh Maker Ordered to Pay $2M

A jury last week ordered the medical device company C.R. Bard to pay $250,000 in compensatory damages and $1.75 million in punitive damages in the first trial of one of thousands of cases of injuries allegedly sustained from vaginal mesh pending in West Virginia federal court. So Bloomberg reports.

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Should Sperm Donors Have Parental Rights?

As society undergoes a natural evolution of scientific progress, the courts must grapple with the ramifications of those changes. Actor Jason Patric’s push for an amendment to a California law is the latest example of the marriage of law and science.

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School Can't Ban 'I (Heart) Boobies' Bracelets, Court Holds

In a 9-5 decision, a U.S. appeals court last week held that a Pennsylvania school district cannot ban "I (Heart) Boobies!" bracelets intended to promote breast cancer awareness. That’s “because the bracelets here are not plainly lewd and because they comment on a social issue.” So USA Today reports.

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Lawyers Express Career Contentment

In rare display of job satisfaction, attorneys from across the nation tell ABA Journal why they love being lawyers, and remind readers “why being a lawyer can be an extraordinary calling.”

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Minor Sex Trafficking Protection Blocked by Judge

A federal district court judge has indefinitely blocked a New Jersey law penalizing anyone who knowingly publishes an advertisement for a commercial sex act that includes the depiction of a minor. So reports the Associated Press reports.

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A-Rod & MLB: What’s the Legal Impact of PED Suspensions?

On Monday, Major League Baseball levied its stiffest penalty for performance enhancing drug use in history, Twelve players were handed 50 game suspensions and accepted the ban. Then there was Alex Rodriguez, who was handed an unprecedented 211-game suspension and vowed to fight it before making his season debut on Monday against the White Sox. 

Legal analysts have tried to parse through exactly what ramifications the suspensions and A-Rod's appeal will have on the players, the league and on the weighty contracts MLB players hold.

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