Harvard Law School students may no longer have Elena Kagan as a dean, but they can now have her on a plate.
Read More »Breyer is funniest justice for week 13: Take his wife…please
During Wednesday’s oral arguments in the Supreme Court case Krupski v. Costa Crociere – a civil procedure case asking whether a plaintiff who named the wrong defendant, but should have known the right defendant, can amend the complaint to correct ...
Read More »Supreme Court: No constitutional violation in all-white Michigan jury
In a ruling that could make it tougher for minority defendants to challenge convictions by all-white juries, the Supreme Court Tuesday in Berghuis v. Smith reversed a 6th Circuit ruling that a Michigan jury selection system – which the defendant ...
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court: Who will replace Justice Stevens?
In a statement that sent ripples through the legal world, the Supreme Court’s eldest jurist, Justice John Paul Stevens, recently told the New Yorker that he will decide by sometime in April whether this term on the Supreme Court will ...
Read More »Does lawyer’s mistake amount to collection law violation?
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide whether an attorney’s misunderstanding of the law qualifies for the bona fide error defense under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. The case, Jerman v. Carlisle, McNellie, Rini, Kramer & Ulrich, began ...
Read More »High court considers if lawyers are debt relief agents under law
The Supreme Court is set to rule in a case that could clarify the limits – if any – on what bankruptcy attorneys can advertise and even the advice they can give clients under a bankruptcy reform statute enacted less ...
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Read More »High court considers if lawyers are debt relief agents
The Supreme Court is set to rule in a case that could clarify the limits - if any - on what bankruptcy attorneys can advertise and even the advice they can give clients.
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Read More »Court ponders life in prison for juveniles
Several justices of the U.S. Supreme Court expressed a reluctance to strike down sentences of life without parole for juveniles as unconstitutionally cruel and unusual Monday. At oral arguments in two cases arising from Florida, where the vast majority of ...
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Read More »American Bar Association wins key ‘red flags’ ruling
In a surprise ruling Thursday, a federal district court blocked the Federal Trade Commission from enforcing “red flags” identity fraud regulations against lawyers. Under the rules, created by the FTC and set to be enforced as of Sunday, businesses that ...
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Read More »Scrutinizing the lawyers
Call it the month of the lawyer at the U.S. Supreme Court. During October oral arguments, the justices of the high court heard four cases that dealt as much with how lawyers do their jobs as with substantive issues of ...
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Read More »Homeland Security scuttles reissued ‘no-match’ rule
The Obama administration has rescinded the controversial “no-match” rule that required employers to reconcile incorrect information on their employees’ W-2 forms, terminate them or face penalties. The rule, originally implemented in 2007 under the Bush administration, was intended to reduce ...
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