Real Estate & Property Law

"Appeals Court Upholds Parental-Notice Abortion Law"
"Appeals Court Upholds Parental-Notice Abortion Law": Bloomberg News has a report that begins, "An Illinois law requiring doctors to give a parent or adult family member at least 48 hours' advance notice of when a girl under age 18 will abort a pregnancy is constitutional, a U...

Appeals Court Upholds Award for Wrongful Convictions
The government must pay nearly $102 million to the families of four men wrongly convicted and imprisoned for a 1965 murder, a federal appeals court has ruled. The decision upholds a 2007 verdict that found the FBI had withheld key evidence that would have proved the men to be innocent...

"Appeals panel upholds dismissal of school's suit"
"Appeals panel upholds dismissal of school's suit": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "A federal appeals court upheld a lower court decision Friday that prevented a Christian school in Texas from joining the state's athletic league for public schools...

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Virginia Abortion Ban
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Federal Appeals Court Upholds Virginia Abortion Ban: The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in a 6-5 decision on Wednesday upheld Virginia's 2003 law banning what abortion-rights opponents call "partial-birth" abortion, a...

Appeals Court Awards Fees in Bad Faith Case
A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling that denied attorneys fees to a disabled lawyer who sought long-term disability benefits from insurer First Unum. In reversing, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals found that Southern District of New York Judge Thomas P...

"Appeals Court Upholds Court's Word Ban"
"Appeals Court Upholds Court's Word Ban": The AP provides a report that begins, "An appeals court on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against a judge who banned 'rape' and other words in a sexual assault trial...

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

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

Cell Phone Early Termination Fees
How to recover billing errors

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

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Preliminary $1M Settlement Reached in Bell Canada Late Fees Class Action
Preliminary $1M Settlement Reached in Bell Canada Late Fees Class Action

Excessive Bank Overdraft Fees
Bank Overdraft Fees alleging excessive fees and misrepresentation of account balances and more.

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

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.