Academic

Rewriting Equality: Report back from the Womens Court of Canada conference
Women from across the country descended on two Toronto law schools last week for the release of the first-ever judgments by Canada?s newest court ? the Women?s Court of Canada. The brainchild of several feminist law scholars and practitioners, the Women?s Court began as a response to concerns about several trends in the Supreme Court?s [...

Women of the Missouri Court: First Event to feature the only four women who have served on the Missouri Supreme Court
In all of Missouri?s history, only four women have served on the state Supreme Court.  The Women?s Law Association (WLA) at the University of Missouri School of Law hosted the first event ever to feature and honor these four women...

Womens Court of Canada
The Women’s Court of Canada launches this week. (See the story in the Ottawa Citizen.) The WCC is a group of women academics and practitioners who combined to rewrite six Supreme Court of Canada decisions to take a full and proper account of women’s equality...

Change comes slowly
NEW YORK – By all accounts, President Barack Obama will appoint a woman to the U.S. Supreme Court seat soon to be vacated by Justice David Souter. The short list is made up almost entirely of women:  women governors, women judges, women law professors...

AT WORK: Women bullying women. Just the mention of women treating other women badly on the job se
AT WORK: Women bullying women. “Just the mention of women treating other women badly on the job seemingly shakes the women?s movement to its core. It is what Peggy Klaus, an executive coach in Berkeley, Calif...

Women Leaving The Law How Come And What Can Be Done About It
The whole issue of women in law is a persistant one, particularly given the rapid rise of women graduates and women lawyers who enter the profession only to then ‘disappear’ some place...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Lipitor
Review of Studies Show No Significant Benefit in Women

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Tomato Salmonella
Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim.

National Association of Realtors
Settlement reached in broker listing antitrust lawsuit, pending court approval.

Missouri Attorney General's Office
$26,000 settlement reached in disability discrimination lawsuit, pending court approval.