from the ABA Journal – Jul 26, 2011 By Debra Cassens Weiss U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a speech (PDF) to the Otsego County Bar Association in Cooperstown, N.Y., listed some of the Court’s recent questions during oral arguments. The Wall Street Journal’s Jess Bravin and How…
The American Bar Association announced today that John Grisham’s The Confession, which chronicles the gut-wrenching politics of a Texas death penalty appeal, won the inaugural Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. The prize, created by the University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal, honors Lee for the…
From The Texas Lawyer, July 25, 2011 Can a federal judge put what he calls a “vexatious litigant” into receivership after the litigant allegedly fails to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to more than 20 lawyers and law firms? That is one of the questions the 5th…
News Source: The Kansas City Star – July 13, 2011 Chrysler Motor Corporation announces a recall nearly 250,000 Ram pickups because of a faulty part in the steering system which can cause loss of control. This recall affects Chrysler’s top-selling vehicle and covers about 243,000 Ram 1500, 2500 and 3500…
Product • Circo Child Booster Seats, sold nationwide at Target stores from January 2005 through June 2009. Price was roughly $13. News source: The Salt Lake Tribune – Jul 13 2011 Booster seats recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Please consider, discontinuing use of this product immediately and return…
Toyota Hybrid SUVs May Suddenly Lose Power or Stop Completely by By Jonathan Welsh of The Wall Street Journal – June 29, 2011 2011 Toyota Highlander Toyota Motor Corp. said today it will recall about 82,200 hybrid sport-utility vehicles to correct an electronic problem that could cause the vehicles…
Recall of Almost 6,800 Pickups By CHRISTOPHER JENSEN of The New York Times 2011 GMC Canyon, one of the models affected in a recall by General Motors. General Motors is recalling almost 6,800 pickups from the 2011 model year because they might roll away even when the automatic transmission’s…
May 24, 2011 By Debra Cassens Weiss From ABAJournal.com: Judge Rules ‘Hangover II’ May Be Released, Despite Copyright Dispute over Tattoo The show must go on, according to a federal judge ruling in a copyright dispute involving a tattoo. The Hangover: Part II was allowed to open this week after…
May 25, 2011 By Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal Motion Claims Buxom Woman with Opposing Counsel Is Intended as Jury Distraction A Chicago lawyer wants a judge to exclude a buxom woman from the opposing counsel’s table at an upcoming trial over a car dealership’s warranty on a…
For the first time in its 21-year history, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law can brag that one of its graduates, Daniel Denton, took the top score on the Texas bar exam. Denton not only earned the top score among the 1,150 people who sat for the February bar exam,…
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