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San Francisco ChronicleHundreds of protesters call to repeal tough New York gun lawFox NewsALBANY, N.Y. – Carrying American flags and signs supporting the Second Amendment, more than 200 people gathered at New York's state capitol building in Albany on Tuesday to press for repeal of the state's tough new gun law. A coalition of conservative ...Prot […]

Brother-in-law of Santa Clara DA's top aide fired after county finds he doesn ...San Jose Mercury NewsSAN JOSE -- Six months after being hired by District Attorney Jeff Rosen for a highly coveted job, the brother-in-law of Rosen's top aide was fired Tuesday after county officials concluded he didn't meet the qualifications to be an investigato […]

Law to keep hospitals reporting infectionsThe Seattle TimesLaw to keep hospitals reporting infections. Hospitals must continue reporting infections from hip- and knee-replacement procedures and cardiac surgery, Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday, despite opposition by hospitals and state health officials. By Carol M. […]

San Francisco ChronicleUS court rejects Arizona law imposing new curbs on abortionWashington PostThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit said the law violated a woman's constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy before a fetus is able to survive outside the womb. Nine other states have enacted similar bans starting at 20 weeks ...Co […]

KATUInslee signs undercover license lawThe Seattle TimesThe measure limits the distribution of the undercover licenses and plates to undercover or covert officers engaged in "law enforcement activities" and Inslee said that the law, which takes effect immediately, gives "legislative direction and parameters ...Inslee Signs Law Allowing Fictiti […]

Wall Street JournalProsecutors consider using racketeering law against SAC: sourceReutersIn 1989, junk bond king Michael Milken was indicted under RICO, with prosecutors claiming his firm Drexel Burnham Lambert routinely broke securities laws. Milken, who pleaded guilty to lesser charges, was sentenced to two years in jail and paid $1.1 ...Prosecutors Consid […]

Harvard Law School NewsJackson and Tushnet discuss new book on constitutional law (video)Harvard Law School NewsHarvard Law School Professor Mark Tushnet is the co-editor of a new book, “Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law” (Routledge 2012), with Thomas Fleiner and Cheryl Sanders. Split into four parts, the book takes a comparative approach to the subje […]

NBCNews.comNew Egypt tax law has cuts for poor, hikes rates for businesses, leaves ...Washington PostLawmaker Mohammed Gouda, a member of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated party and a member of parliament's economic committee, told The Associated Press that the law was aimed at protecting foreign investments, fostering economic equality and ... […]

ABC NewsSusan Powell Case Still Open: Police Believe Husband, Brother-in-Law 'Directly ...ABC NewsQuestions still surround the 2009 disappearance of Utah mother Susan Powell ever since the suicides of her husband, Josh Powell, and brother-in-law, Michael Powell, who authorities believe were "directly involved in her disappearance." Although th […]

International Law Firms Unite to Fight FraudNew York TimesMADRID — Twenty-two law firms will form a worldwide alliance to collaborate on financial litigation against questionable funds and other financial products sold across borders in the wake of scandals like that of Bernard L. Madoff. The law firms said ... […]

New recommendations for legal blood alcohol limit raises some concernsLynchburg News and AdvanceThe National Transportation Safety Board has said more than 100 countries have adopted legal standards at .05 blood alcohol content or less. In European countries with that standard, alcohol-related driving deaths dropped by more than half within 10 ... […]

Illinois Sports Facilities Authority will pay legal tab for Jim ThompsonChicago TribuneBy Jared S. Hopkins, Chicago Tribune reporter. May 22, 2013. The public agency that owns U.S. Cellular Field agreed Tuesday to pay the legal expenses of its ex-chairman, former Gov. Jim Thompson, in a federal lawsuit brought against him last month by ... […]

De La Hoya wins legal battle against modelNew York PostBoxer Oscar De La Hoya won round two of his legal battle against a former Maxim model today when an appeals court called her $5 million assault suit "baseless." The 100-pound bottle blonde's claims that the retired welterweight imprisoned her in his ...and more » […]

San Jose votes to raise pot tax, legal budget for pension reformsSan Jose Mercury Newsvoted 8-3 to increase funding for the legal defense of the city's pension reform efforts that voters approved overwhelmingly in June. The vote raises the contract for the law firm Meyers Nave by $900,000 to a total of $2.1 million. The firm is handling ...and more » […]

Top vote-getters sworn in despite legal glitchChicago TribuneMary Ellen Young, Danielle Dittus and Paula Bowling took oaths of office for the DuPage County Regional Board of School Trustees Monday, but that doesn't mean all of them will be allowed to serve. Though the three received the most votes, the Illinois ...and more » […]

Syracuse University's legal fees double during year that Bernie Fine was firedSyracuse.comSyracuse - Syracuse University's legal fees nearly doubled in the academic year the university fired Bernie Fine over sexual molestation allegations. And the law firm paid the most was Bond, Schoeneck & King, of Syracuse, the university's long-time la […]

ABC NewsAmy's Baking Company Cancels Press Conference After Legal Threats From FoxEaterAmy's Baking Company — now infamous for its Facebook freakout following a terrible showing on Kitchen Nightmares — has cancelled a press conference on threat of legal action from Fox. Radar Online reports that Fox's lawyers sent a letter to ...Amy's Bak […]

When Are Legal Fees Voluntary?ForbesAccording to many self-made millionaires, the times legal fees are voluntary – or quasi-voluntary – are ALL THE TIME. The general process is that lawyers do legal work and they send a bill. Sometimes they get a retainer – partial payment. It's also ... […]

New York Times (blog)Should Marijuana Be Legal?New York Times (blog)Should it be legal for medical use all over the United States? Should it also be legal for recreational use for consumers who are 21 and over, as Washington and Colorado have allowed? In general, do you think the current federal prohibition on ...and more » […]

Washington TimesSenate panel OKs tax-welfare benefits for newly legal immigrantsWashington TimesThe SenateJudiciary Committee voted Monday to allow illegal immigrants who get legal status to begin collecting tax-welfare payments, as the panel spent a fourth day working through amendments to the massive immigration bill and party-line splits began ...Senate p […]

Prosecutions under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act against individuals, businesses or government entities dropped by 52 percent in 2012, compared to 2011, according to TRACE, a Maryland-based nonprofit that focuses on anti-bribery compliance. However, enforcement actions are surging this year, said Julie Coleman, TRACE's senior director of adviso […]

A divided Federal Circuit has affirmed a jury verdict upholding the validity of a patent owned by licensing company Alexsam that covers systems used to process prepaid phone and gift cards. But it reversed the Marshall, Texas, jury's finding that IDT Corp., had infringed the patent for one system, and affirmed the district court's ruling that there […]

With the U.S. Department of Justice under fire for secretly obtaining Associated Press phone records, a newly unsealed court document has revealed that federal prosecutors seized far more than phone records in one pending leak case. A DOJ investigation into leaks about classified information about North Korea also looked at a reporter's security badge a […]

The Justice Department's legal ethics division will look at whether a former U.S. Attorney violated department rules when he disclosed information to a news reporter, an inspector general report released Monday states. Dennis Burke admitted to releasing to a Fox News producer a memorandum related to the Operation Fast and Furious gun-trafficking program […]

Everyone knows that litigation often settles on the eve of trial. But sometimes it takes the reality of a retrial to bring the parties to the bargaining table. That was the case for Silicon Valley rivals Brocade Communications and A10 Networks, which reached a settlement in their long-running intellectual property spat even as jury selection was under way fo […]

Eric Turkewitz, of The Turkewitz Law Firm and author of the New York Personal Injury Law Blog, offers dos and don'ts for first-time legal bloggers. […]

Attorney Daniel Cummins and staff reporter Ben Present discuss the emerging issue of social media law. In this installment, the two discuss the differences between Facebook and Twitter, and whether Twitter posts can be discoverable. […]

Steve Fletcher, CIO at Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, speaks to issues "bring your own device" policies bring to law firms, such as securing client data. […]

Attorney Daniel Cummins and staff reporter Ben Present discuss the emerging issue of social media law. In this installment, the two discuss whether Facebook pages are discoverable. […]

The recently established Institute for Law Department Excellence is on a mission to enable in-house attorneys to focus on practicing law, and to help those in key operations learn from each other. "If you are going to enable your lawyers to do lawyering," ILDE president Bill Young says, "they cannot be spending 25 to 40 percent of their time o […]