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Kasich Recasts Himself as Healer After Ohioans Spurn Union LawBusinessWeek8 (Bloomberg) -- Ohio Governor John Kasich spent much of his first year pushing a law to rein in public-employee unions. Now, with voters having shot it down, he is recasting his agenda to include “tough environmental rules” and pleas for ...and more » […]

Law Office of Brodsky & Smith, LLC Announces Investigation of Swank, Inc.MarketWatch (press release)7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Law office of Brodsky & Smith, LLC announces that it is investigating potential claims against the Board of Directors of Swank, Inc. ("Swank" or the "Company") (PINKSHEETS -SNKI) relating to the pr […]

Wednesday's Highlights: 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' on NBCLos Angeles Times (blog)HARRY CONNICK JR. continues his guest starring role as an assistant DA on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” at 9 pm on NBC. With Mariska Hargitay. Person to Person: CBS resurrects Edward R. Murrow's series with Charlie Rose and Lara Logan […]

Times DailyAlabama Immigration Law's Opponents Seek Allies In Business SectorHuffington PostWASHINGTON -- Opponents of Alabama's contested immigration law are asking local manufacturers of Mercedes-Benz, Honda and Hyundai cars to help them push for a total repeal of the law in the state's Republican-controlled legislature.Rights Advocates Ask […]

USA TODAYSouth Carolina sues Obama administration over voter ID lawChicago TribuneCHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - South Carolina's attorney general sued President Barack Obama's administration on Tuesday over the federal government's rejection of the state's new voter identification law, arguing it would not disenfranchise ...APNew […]

The New Civil Rights MovementProposition 8 law ruled unlawful by appeals courtWashington Post (blog)7 (Bloomberg) -- California's voter-backed Proposition 8 law declaring marriage to be only between a man and a woman was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court. The San Francisco-based court, ruling 2-1, today upheld the 2010 decision of a ...T […]

PoliticoThe overhyped controversy over contraceptives and the lawAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)And let's start by exploring a related issue, the application of gender-bias laws to religious institutions. As many of you know, churches that are members of the Southern Baptist Convention are not allowed to hire women as pastors.Catholics Unite Against […]

New York TimesLegislators want to act after court strikes suicide lawAtlanta Journal ConstitutionBy Christopher Quinn Key legislators want to rewrite Georgia law after the state Supreme Court struck down the General Assembly's last attempt to criminalize assisted suicides. "The Supreme Court has ruled, and now it is up to us," Majority Whip Ed […]

Fort Worth Star TelegramTexas begins enforcing law requiring pre-abortion sonogramCNN InternationalBy the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Texas health officials began enforcing Tuesday a controversial law that requires doctors to provide a sonogram to pregnant women before they get an abortion. "Our inspection activity related to the law's requirements ... […]

ABC NewsAudio recording law under scrutiny in IllinoisCBS NewsMoore was promptly arrested and charged with violating a strict Illinois eavesdropping law that bars audio recordings unless all involved parties agree to it. Moore, then 20, spent more than two weeks in jail and faced up to 15 years in prison.Press-free NATO summit? Filming cops on the street ill […]

Daily BeastLegal experts say path to Supreme Court is uncertain for California's same-sex ...The RepublicYet legal experts seemed to think the panel of the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit of Appeals struck down the voter-approved ban on Tuesday purposefully served up its 2-1 opinion in a narrow way and seasoned it with established holdings so the ... […]

Boston.comMacy's Legal Clash With Stewart May Foretell More Fights: RetailBusinessWeekBy Cotten Timberlake and Chris Dolmetsch Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- When JC Penney Co. announced in December that it had cut a deal to carry Martha Stewart-branded home goods in its stores, it didn't take Macy's Inc. long to say: Wait a minute, Martha.Macy's […]

BloombergFaulty Loans Top $72 Billion as Banks Seek Legal Deal: MortgagesBusinessWeek“It's a colossal failure of basic banking,” said David Knutson, a credit analyst in Chicago with Legal & General Investment Management, a holder of bonds in some of the lenders involved. “It's surprised everyone in terms of persistence and longevity ...Faulty L […]

USA TODAYE15 fuel, not quite legal yet, under new challengeUSA TODAYIt's currently legal to sell gasoline fuel blended with up to 10% ethanol. Almost any vehicle can safely burn that. But it is suspected of causing premature wear to chainsaws, lawn mowers, boat engine and the like, which is why the small-engine ...and more » […]

TIMEApple Faces $1.6 Billion Legal Challenge Over iPad Name in ChinaTIMEBy Sam Gustin | @samgustin | February 7, 2012 | + Apple's products have been a huge hit in China, but the company is facing an increasingly annoying headache there over the use of the iPad name for its wildly popular tablet computer.Apple in a legal battle for the iPad name?GlobalPo […]

South Carolina Files Legal Challenge to DOJ's Denial of Voter ID LawsFox News (blog)Columbia, SC - February 7, 2012 Attorney General Alan Wilson today filed a lawsuit in United State District Court against the federal government and the head of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Attorney General Eric Holder.and more » […]

PerezHilton.comLindsay Lohan's Legal Fees: How Much Money She's Spent Over The YearsHuffington PostEvery week it seems there is a new Lohan-related lawsuit or court appearance, and her legal fees are really starting to add up. In the latest suit against the actress to hit the news, Lohan's legal team was tasked with firing off yet another resp […]

Legal Controversy on Abbas' Posts Grows after Doha DeclarationCRIENGLISH.comby Emad Drimly, Saud Abu Ramadan A legal controversy over the posts of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rose on Tuesday, one day after he agreed in Qatar with Islamic Hamas movement's chief Khaled Meshaal that Abbas will form and lead a unified ...and more » […]

PoliticoObama birth control mandate faces legal challengesPoliticoAnd those state rules have withstood legal challenges from groups that contend they violate the religious liberties of faith-based employers that object to contraception. Opponents say a crucial difference between the federal and state mandates could ...Legal Challenges Likely Next Step As Fla […]

Integreon Launches On-Site Legal Resourcing ServiceMarketWatch (press release)LONDON, Feb 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Integreon, the largest global provider of integrated legal, research and business solutions, today announced the launch of a new on-site legal resource staffing service for law firms and corporate legal ...and more » […]

Employees of privately held contractors or subcontractors of public companies are not eligible for whistleblower protection under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, a split panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a case of first impression. In a vehement dissent, Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson criticized the majority for barring "a signific […]

Taking a narrow approach in deciding the blockbuster challenge to California's ban on gay marriage, a split 9th Circuit panel on Tuesday found Proposition 8 unconstitutional. The majority punted on the broader question of whether marrying a partner of the same sex should be a fundamental right -- a move that scholars said was designed to help the opinio […]

Pepper Hamilton has made a rare move for am Am Law 100 or 200 firm by hiring a nonlawyer chief executive officer to take over management of the firm. […]

Instead of accepting a judge's decision to cut more than $1 billion from Oracle's record $1.3 billion copyright infringement verdict against SAP, Oracle and its lawyers at Bingham McCutchen and Boies Schiller have opted to risk winning an even smaller award in a new damages trial. […]

The expansion of U.S. law firms is giving some Hong Kong associates the chance to nearly double their salaries. Is a pay war about to set a new standard in the market? Or will darkening economic clouds intervene? […]

Browning Marean, senior counsel at DLA Piper, speaks to LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about the challenges of fashioning responses to discovery requests that are appropriate -- and proportional -- to a case. […]

D.C. District Judge John Facciola speaks with LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about how e-discovery training is at a crossroads, constrained by limited financial resources at the governmental level. He proposes several solutions to address these challenges, particularly when individuals are unable to meet face to face. […]

The Boies, Schiller & Flexner founder explains how he prepared for the key cross-examinations in the Proposition 8 case. […]

Jerone English, director of e-discovery for Intel, speaks to LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about how rank-and-file lawyers can get up to speed on the latest electronic data discovery policies and procedures. […]

In one of the few cases tied to the subprime meltdown to actually reach trial, a federal judge has ruled that State Street Corp. caused losses in nearly 200 of Prudential Financial's retirement plans by not prudently managing a group of bond funds that heavily invested in subprime mortgage-backed securities. […]