Litigation

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Supreme Court Reporter Linda Greenhouse Returns To Yale Law School
Linda Greenhouse, the well known U.S. Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times has joined the faculty (well sort of) of Yale Law School. A Press Release provides: Pulitzer Prize-winning legal writer Linda Greenhouse will return to Yale Law...

Former Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork Settles Slip and Fall Accident Lawsuit With Yale Club
Former Yale Law School Professor Robert Bork has agreed to a $1 million slip and fall lawsuit he had filed for injuries he suffered at the Yale Club of New York City in 2006. The details of the settlement are...

Yale nabs Linda Greenhouse
The so-called Tenth Justice of the Supreme Court is heading to the Yale University Law School. Linda Greenhouse, who has covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times for three decades will be leaving the paper as part of an employee buyout program...

Thank You (Again) to Our Readers
The Legal Writing Prof Blog continues to have a great increase in visits to the website. Our page visits have gone up by more than 1,000 each month. In January we had 6,067 page visits...

Affirmative Action, Clarence Thomas, and Yale
The American Lawyerexplored Justice Clarence Thomas’ claim that Yale’s affirmative action policy hindered him from obtaining a corporate job. It noted that a dozen African-American lawyers who attended Yale at the same time reached a different conclusion, with many explaining that grades, corporate clerkships, networking savvy and racism were factors in their job search...

Yale Claims Student's Art Project Is Fiction
In a statement yesterday by Yale University spokewoman Helaine Klasky, Yale asserted that the controversial art project described in the Yale Daily News (see yesterday's post) was a work of "creative fiction": Ms...

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

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.

Rutland School District
Double pay offered as part of class action wage dispute settlement, pending court approval.