Litigation

Supreme Court refuses to reinstate embezzler's law license (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to reinstate the law license of a Cedarburg man who embezzled from companies he represented in bankruptcy proceedings and from his mother's living trust.

Calif. AG asks court to OK law banning game sales (AP via Yahoo! News)
California Attorney General Jerry Brown has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.

Virginia asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge to Anti-Spam Act
The Richmond Times Dispatch: Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell yesterday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Virginia’s anti-spam e-mail law. In September the Virginia Supreme Court held that the Anti-Spam Act of 2003 was unconstitutional for barring all anonymous, unsolicited bulk e-mails — even those with political, religious or other protected content, not just commercial speech [...

Afghan president urged to reinstate death penalty moratorium
[JURIST] Afghan President Hamid Karzai [official website; BBC profile] should reinstate a moratorium on the death penalty and should not sign execution orders for 100 prisoners, approved by the Supreme Court this week, advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday...

Media asks court to reinstate criticism of MI5 in Binyam Mohamed case The Times
“Britain?s senior judges will rethink this week their controversial decision to excise damning criticism of MI5 from a ruling published last week. Lawyers for leading British and American media organisations have written to the Court of Appeal asking the judges to reinstate a paragraph ? which disclosed how much M15 had been told about the [...

Baker & McKenzie Saves Christmas
…for lots of British Airways’ passengers as the High Court puts cabin crews back to work over the holiday season. The cabin crews had been due to start a 12-day strike next Tuesday over changes they say have been imposed by the embattled airline...

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

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

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

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

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

Social Security Class Action Launched
to Reinstate Wrongfully Terminated Payments

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.