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Arizona Law Takes a Toll on Nonresident Students
Lawyer Blogs 01/26/2008When Marco Carrillo, a naturalized American and a high school valedictorian, went to meet with his college counselor, her major worry about his future had little to do with his SAT scores or essay or extracurricular activities. It had to do with his ...
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Plaintiff ID'd in Lawsuit Against USADA
Lawyer Blogs 01/26/2008The plaintiff in a lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency is Rock Racing cyclist Kayle Leogrande, two people familiar with the case told The Associated Press.In the lawsuit, filed Wednesday on behalf of "John Doe" in Los Angeles County Superior ...
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Calif. Court: Medical Pot Not OK at Work
Lawyer Blogs 01/25/2008[##_1L|1291694351.jpg|width="130" height="94" alt=""|_##]Employers can fire workers who use medical marijuana even if it was legally recommended by a doctor, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday, dealing the state another setback in its stando...
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Court ruling clouds naming of Major League players
Lawyer Blogs 01/25/2008A federal appeals court has for the second time generally sided with Justice Department efforts to use the names and urine samples of about 100 Major League baseball players who tested positive for steroids four years ago.But the convoluted 119-page ...
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Ohio Court Debates Rights to Body Parts
Lawyer Blogs 01/24/2008Justices appeared skeptical of both sides in a state Supreme Court hearing on whether the brain, heart and other body parts removed during an autopsy should be returned to the relatives of the deceased instead of being destroyed.The case heard Wednes...
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Ohio Court Debates Rights to Body Parts
Lawyer Blogs 01/23/2008During an autopsy, the Hamilton County coroner removed Christopher Albrecht's brain and never put it back — a common practice for coroners.But when Albrecht's parents learned years later that they had buried him without a brain, they filed a lawsuit ...
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Court Rules Inmates Can't Sue for Property Loss
Lawyer Blogs 01/23/2008Abdus-Shahid M.S. Ali's lawsuit against prison guards was based on allegations of harassment and mistreatment. But the Supreme Court's decision yesterday that he is barred from suing rests on an ambiguous federal statute that has confounded the court...
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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Enron Case
Lawyer Blogs 01/22/2008[##_1L|1253433034.jpg|width="104" height="138" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court dealt a blow Tuesday to Enron investors who sued major investment banks to recover money lost when the Texas energy giant collapsed amid a massive accounting fraud. By refusi...
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Supreme Court will hear employee harassment case
Lawyer Blogs 01/20/2008A longtime local government worker is fired after she cooperates with an investigation of sexual harassment allegations against a high-ranking official. The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether federal civil rights law protects employees ...
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US Court To Hear Review Of “Light” Cigarettes
Lawyer Blogs 01/20/2008The Supreme Court agreed Friday to a cigarette maker's request to decide whether tobacco companies can be sued under state law for allegedly deceptive advertising of "light" cigarettes.The tobacco industry is trying to head off a wave of state-based ...
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Chief Justice Recuses Himself from Massey Case
Lawyer Blogs 01/18/2008[##_1L|1084929984.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]The chief justice of the state Supreme Court agreed Friday to remove himself from a pending case involving Massey Energy Co., days after vacation photos surfaced showing him in Monaco with the ...
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Attorneys Press High Court To Hear Enron Investor Suit
Lawyer Blogs 01/18/2008A $40 billion lawsuit by Enron investors against several banks for orchestrating financing deals for the now-defunct energy trader is not dead, despite a recent Supreme Court decision that helps protect such third parties.In fact, some lawyers who re...