Litigation

Senate Passes Bill to Restrict Credit Card Practices
Senate Passes Bill to Restrict Credit Card Practices | New York Times Related posts:House passes the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of RightsSenate Passes Bailout Plan; House May Vote by FridayCredit Cardholders Bill of Rights Passes Out of Full Committee Related posts:House passes the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of RightsSenate Passes Bailout Plan; House May Vote by FridayCredit Cardholders Bill of Rights Passes Out of Full Committee

Abolition Bill Passes Montana Senate Committee
"Death penalty ban advances," is the AP report via the Great Falls Tribune, written by Matt Gouras.A plan to ban the death penalty in Montana is headed toward a floor vote in the state Senate...

FL Senate Resists Some Court Reforms
Some of Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon’s court reform proposals — to change judicial selection, and to overhaul the state Supreme Court — have encountered resistance in the state Senate...

Resistance Mounting to FL Court Overhaul
A Republican-led proposal to overhaul Florida’s Supreme Court continues to get a shellacking in the news media, as its fate in the state Senate remains uncertain. The Senate’s second-ranking member, Republican Mike Bennett, recently predicted the measure would not win Senate passage, according to a Sarasota Herald-Tribune column by Mike Tryon, entitled “Standing up for [...

Senate Judiciary Committee Unanmiously Passes Cybersafety Legislation
Senate Judiciary Committee Unanmiously Passes Cybersafety Legislation Attorney General Jack Conway today thanked the Senate Judiciary Committee for unanimously passing House Bill 367, legislation that he drafted, which was sponsored by Rep....

MN: Clarks anti-porn bill passes out of Senate committee
Politics in Minnesota: "A bill that would prohibit state employees and elected officials from spending public dollars at hotels that offer customers access to violent pornographic movies passed unanimously out of a Senate committee this afternoon...

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

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

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

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Nortel
faces class action over changes to employee pension plan

Yellow Freight Pension Plan
alleging ERISA violations

Health Plan Boycott
Connecticut chiropractic groups to pay $87,000 fine in civil suit.

WaMu Cash Balance Pension Plan - Partial Preliminary Settlement
WaMu Cash Balance Pension Plan Partial Preliminary Settlement