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CBC.ca Quebec Vows Law to End Student StrikeWall Street JournalBy ALISTAIR MACDONALD And CAROLYN KING The government of the Canadian province of Quebec was set to consider emergency legislation Thursday, a day after promising new laws aimed at reopening graduate classrooms closed by a 14-week student protest that …Quebec announces emergency law to restore orderTheChronicleHerald.caEmergency [...]

Wall Street Journal Quebec Vows New Law to End Student StrikeWall Street JournalBy ALISTAIR MACDONALD and CAROLYN KING The government of the Canadian province of Quebec promised new laws on Wednesday aimed at reopening graduate classrooms closed by a 14-week student protest that has convulsed Montreal with often violent …Quebec law would suspend classes affected [...]

NY judge finds law's impact unconstitutionalWall Street JournalAP NEW YORK — A New York judge has struck down as unconstitutional a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists. Judge Katherine Forrest said in a written ruling …and more » View full post on law [...]

MassLive.com Law Review Called Senate Candidate Warren 'Woman of Color'Wall Street JournalBy JENNIFER LEVITZ A 1997 Fordham Law Review article described Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren as Harvard Law School's "first woman of color," saying in footnotes that the information was based on a 1996 telephone interview with a Harvard …Fordham piece called Warren Harvard [...]

Accused NYC madam makes legal switch _ her 3rdWall Street JournalAP NEW YORK — The accused suburban-mom madam of a multimillion-dollar Manhattan escort service has moved on to a new legal team — her fourth. A judge agreed Tuesday to let Anna Gristina make her third legal switch. She's now represented by seasoned …and more » [...]

Bloomberg Greece To Pay Out Foreign Law BondWall Street JournalATHENS (Dow Jones)–Greece's government said Tuesday that it would honor in full a maturing, foreign-law bond that was not included in the country's recent debt restructuring but said the payment would not necessarily set a precedent.Greece Make Repayment on 435 Million Euro Bond Coming Due TodayBloombergall [...]

Greece to Pay Foreign-Law BondWall Street JournalBy ALKMAN GRANITSAS And NEKTARIA STAMOULI ATHENS—Greece will pay out on a €450 million ($577.1 million) foreign-law bond that wasn't included in the country's debt restructuring, two government sources said Tuesday. "It is going to be paid," a senior …and more » View full post on law – Google News

Citi: Demand For Legal Services Up, But Outpaced By Spike in ExpensesWall Street Journal (blog)By Jennifer Smith Some semi-cheerful news out on the legal biz front—demand for legal services rose in the first quarter of 2012, according to a new report from Citi Private Bank. 2012 isn't all unicorns and rainbows for the $100 billion [...]

Delays Slow Review of Divorce LawsWall Street JournalBy SOPHIA HOLLANDER A state commission tasked with reviewing a contentious aspect of New York's divorce reform laws is four months behind in delivering an expected report, raising concerns that lawmakers will have little time to address recommendations … View full post on law – Google News

Two Big Stories, One Conclusion: China Has No Legal SystemWall Street Journal (blog)Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng holds a petition in a video smuggled out when he was still under informal house arrest. Chen, the blind self-educated “barefoot lawyer,” was a victim convicted in a sham trial, imprisoned for over 4 years, …and more » [...]