Legal News

"Ariz. gov. orders training ahead of court decision"
"Ariz. gov. orders training ahead of court decision": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "Arizona's governor on Tuesday ordered a state board to redistribute a training video on the state's controversial immigration law to all law enforcement agencies...

Brewer Has Court Date for Ariz. Immigration Law
Judge's Decision Blocking Parts of SB1070 Appealed by Ariz. Governor in San Francisco Circuit Court

Ariz. cops need immigration training
There's another wrinkle in the story about Arizona's new immigration law: Police there need training so they can enforce immigration rules correctly, and they're asking the federal government for help...

Supreme Court Review, Tougher
This past Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court released three orders discharging jurisdiction in cases where the court had previously accepted jurisdiction. In one of those orders -- this one, which involved a decision that construed a provision of the federal constitution -- the court discharged jurisdiction as improvidently granted...

Pitfalls Ahead: A Manifesto for the Training of Lawyers
Anita Bernstein (Brooklyn) has posted Pitfalls Ahead: A Manifesto for the Training of Lawyers on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Entrants joining the legal profession are entitled to fair warning about what they are getting into...

"Appeals panel orders rehearing in Ariz. temple killings"
"Appeals panel orders rehearing in Ariz. temple killings": The Associated Press has this report about an order granting rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday...

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

Military Veterans Benefits, Part 2
Training, Healthcare, and Death Benefits

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

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

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

Baltimore Strip Search Class Action
Judge Gives Go-ahead

Sun Mar Health Care Inc.
allegedly misrepresented nursing staff levels and training to elderly residents.

Greka Oll and Gas
EPA Orders Clean-up of Toxic PCBs

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Technician Whistleblower
Jury orders DuPont Chambers Works to pay $1.224 million settlement to employee.