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New York’s highest court on Tuesday said lawmakers’ attempts to link judicial raises to raises for themselves, or to issues such as campaign finance reform, were unconstitutional.
Tagged with: New York State Court of Appeals
Read More »Court to decide if suit moves forward
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court seems willing to let a group of African American applicants sue the city of Chicago for discrimination for using test scores to decide who would become a firefighter trainee.
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Read More »Study: Lawyers predict bankruptcy as growth area
According to a recent survey, practitioners expect that bankruptcy will be the biggest area of growth for the next three months.
Read More »Referring attorney can be denied fee
A referring attorney in a child injury case could be denied a contingent fee based on the impropriety of his fee-sharing agreement with co-counsel, the Second Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment.
Read More »Amanda’s Law in effect
Amanda’s Law, signed into law in August 2009, took effect Monday, mandating the installation of carbon monoxide (CO) detectors in all homes in New York State.
Read More »NYSBA shares attorneys’ employment outlook
To help attorneys navigate the current employment landscape and identify where the best legal career opportunities might be found in a tough economy, the New York State Bar Association’s ...
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Read More »SCOTUS returns from four-week recess
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reversed a lower court decision that gave a new trial to a man convicted of killing a police officer in Texas.
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Read More »Feds file to halt Starwood-Hilton lawsuit
MIAMI — Federal prosecutors and agents are investigating possible charges including fraud and theft of trade secrets in a criminal probe of Hilton Hotels Corp. ...
Read More »Philip Morris seeks high court ruling
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s largest tobacco maker is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out court rulings holding that the industry illegally concealed the dangers of cigarette smoking.
Tagged with: cigarettes SCOTUS
Read More »Ledbetter Act doesn’t revive age-bias lawsuit
A new federal law extending the statute of limitations for certain job discrimination claims does not revive the lawsuit of an accountant who alleged he was not promoted to partner because of his age ...
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Read More »Fees restriction lifted
The Legal Services Corporation, the federally-funded organization that provides civil legal aid for the nation’s poor, has repealed a regulation prohibiting it from claiming, collecting and retaining attorney fees.
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Read More »$2.75M settlement reached with inside trader
New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday announced a settlement with David Shulman, formerly a top executive at UBS, over Shulman’s sale of personal holdings ...
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