Taxation & Estate Planning

School Law Clinics Face a Backlash
Law clinics are facing strong pushbacks by the companies they are challenging, and legal experts say the attacks are creating a chilling effect on the clinics.

Law School Clinics Under Attack
Two recent blog postings report on the backlash by economic and political interests against the work of student staffed legal clinics at publicly supported law schools. Maryland Legislature Backs Down on Threat to Clinical Funding Law school clinics under attack;...

Maine rule change helps out law school clinics
Law clinics may be under attack in Maryland and Louisiana, but the Maine Supreme Court has extended a helping hand to law school clinics by adopting a new Rule 1.10(e) that relaxes the usual imputation rules when a lawyer from...

"School Law Clinics Face a Backlash"
"School Law Clinics Face a Backlash": Sunday's edition of The New York Times will contain an article that begins, "Law school students nationwide are facing growing attacks in the courts and legislatures as legal clinics at the schools increasingly take on powerful interests that few other nonprofit groups have the resources to challenge...

UK: Kids taken on school trips to sex clinics
The Christian Institute: "Children are being taken to sexual health clinics for school trips which are designed to be 'enjoyable' . . . In London a genito-urinary doctor who has been involved in trips in the capital said: 'We are trying to demystify the experience for children who may have to visit later in life, and to make the clinic friendly and welcoming...

Supreme Court Clinics Give Law Students a Heady Taste of Lawyering at the Highest Level
A number of US schools, including Yale, Stanford, Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Texas School of Law, have established Supreme Court Clinics...

Academic freedom is under attack at many law school clinics
So reports the Chronicle of Higher Ed in this piece. Here's an excerpt: Many faculty members at law-school clinics feel pressure from their bosses to steer clear of cases that might incur the displeasure of donors, lawmakers, or others who....

Are Student Government Records Subject to State's Open Record Laws
"A group of college reporters asked Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Wednesday for his opinion on whether Wisconsin's open records and meetings laws apply to University of Wisconsin System student government...

Crowdsource RCFP's Open Government Guide
The Open Government Guide, produced by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, offers open meetings and open records laws in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Guide is open for comments...

Public records law put to test
BY JAMES NASH THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH If a group of Cincinnati teachers prevails in a case now before the Ohio Supreme Court, enterprising students might be able to ace their tests simply by using the state's public-records law to get a copy of the test before it's given...

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School Misrepresentation
Lehigh Valley College agrees to pay $200,000 settlement for violating consumer protection laws.

Nationwide Recall Of All Lots Of Tylenol Arthritis Pain 100 Count With Ez-Open Cap
Tylenol Arthritis Pain 100 Count With Ez-Open Cap All Lots Recalled Nationally

Medical Records
To Stay out of Pharma's Hands

VA Clinics
Thousands of Patients at Risk for Infectious Diseases

School Racism
School District pays $250,000 in racial harassment settlement.

California Labor Laws
alleged violations of California labor laws such as overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.