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White Plaintiff in Paula Deen Case Lacks Standing to Sue: Defense Lawyer
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In the case against celebrity chef Paula Deen and her brother Earl W. “Bubba” Hiers for sexual harassment and race discrimination, Hiers' attorney has filed a motion alleging that the plaintiff, Lisa Jackson, lacks standing, according to the Savannah Morning News.
Read more...Justice Roberts Wages Long-Term War on Liberal Policies: NYT
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There’s a pattern in the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., who is waging a slow, methodical assault on the country's liberal policies. So contends a recent article from The New York Times.
Read more...SCOTUS Issues Rulings Favoring Marriage Equality
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The Supreme Court recently rendered two decisions that further the cause of same-sex marriage proponents, The New York Times reports.
Read more...Family of Murder Victim Suing AA
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The family of 31-year old Karla Brada Mendez, a woman who died a violent death in 2011, has filed a lawsuit against Alcoholics Anonymous contending that AA had a “reckless disregard for … the safety and security of victims attending AA meetings who are repeatedly preyed upon at those meetings by financial, violent, and sexual predators. So reports ProPublica.
Read more...Lawyer's Epic Response to Pretentious Cease-and-Desist Letter Goes Viral
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A lawyer representing a man who received a cease-and-desist letter from the township attorney for West Orange, N.J., has written a response to the letter that is so critical of the letter's commonly used, pretentious legalese that it has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on the web. So reports Above The Law.
Read more...SCOTUS: Pre-Miranda silence can be used as evidence of guilt
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The Supreme Court says prosecutors can use a person's silence against them if it comes before he's told of his right to remain silent.
Read more...Do Medical Malpractice Suits Actually Promote Hospital Transparency?
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Long blamed for the kind of hospital secrecy about error that compromises patient safety, medical-malpractice lawsuits are actually becoming a source of valuable information about medical error.
Read more...Detroit Law Firm Sponsors ‘Guns for Groceries’ Program
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Tired of the senseless loss of life from firearms, partners at the Detroit law firm Goodman Acker sponsored a program to give anyone who turned in an unloaded gun a $50 gift card for the Meijer grocery chain, according to the Associated Press.
Read more...Death Row Inmate Forms Real Bond with Attorney
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New York attorney David Kochman is representing William Ernest Kuenzel and hoping to get him off death row by arguing “actual innocence” in an Atmore, Alabama murder case that is decades old.
Read more...Arizona Law Bans Buyback Programs from Destroying Guns
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An Arizona law has prohibited cities and counties that collect guns in buy-back programs from destroying the firearms, instead requiring they be sold to federally licensed dealers, according to a Los Angeles Times article.
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