Legal News

Same-Sex Divorce
Heterosexual couples divorcing get a tax deduction for alimony payments, but because federal law doesn't recognize same-sex marriage, the tax deduction doesn't apply. Plus, retirement and pension plans, easily split for heterosexual couples divorcing, have to be cashed out and and are heavily taxed for same-sex couples...

Wall Street Journal Advises Divorcing Couples In Financial Straits to Consider Mediation
The Wall Street Journal published an article today discussing the increasing number of couples separating and divorcing as a result of financial hardship brought on by the recession...

Courts Reluctant to Stop Divorcing Bloggers From Airing Complaints
Courts Reluctant to Stop Divorcing Bloggers From Airing Complaints is an interesting April 18, 2008 ABA Blog Journal posting. As the article states, some divorcing couples are blogging and often times the other spouse trys to stop it...

Poor Economy Affecting Divorcing Couples
The AP has an interesting article about the effect of the economy on divorced couples. I think the title of the article is a bit deceiving, “Couples staying together because of poor economy,” because the people in the article are legally divorced and thus, no longer couples staying together...

Another Australia Bill Granting Same-Sex Rights Passes Senate as Systematic Overhaul of Marriage Continues
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “The Australian Senate has passed a bill that grants unmarried long-term couples, including homosexual couples, the same legal process provided to divorcing married couples...

McGreevey divorce leads to upsurge in interest in mediation and collaborative divorce
The highly publicized McGreevey divorce dispute has served as a wake-up call for at least a few couples who have realized this is a road they don’t want to go down. Divorcing couples, seeing that spectacle in the newspaper and on TV, realize that they don’t want to be like that and [...

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

Stephen J. Hyland
alleging fraudulent operations in offering expertise in same gender couples' issues.

Strip Search Class Action Settled for $900,000
Strip Search Class Action Settled for $900,000

Strip-Search Lawsuit Settled for $1.1 Million
Strip-Search Lawsuit Settled for $1.1 Million

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Canadian Government
seeks new law enabling them to search your laptop