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Above The Law’s Top 10 Most Popular Posts Of 2017
All the best stories from 2017.
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Law Student Worries That Roy Moore Vote Will ‘Haunt’ Him. Guess I’m The Ghost Of Christmas Present.
Of course, the idiot candidate is the one who "doxxed" him.
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Opinion | Poland is illegally dismantling its own constitution. Can the E.U. do anything?
The outcome will have far-reaching consequences for other member states.
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Opinion | Poland’s autocratic counterrevolution draws nearer
Will Europe and the U.S. speak up after lawmakers vote to undercut their Supreme Court’s independence and the government goes after a Polish television station?
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Is Chief Justice Roberts A Secret Liberal?
His leftward shift may have as much to do with institutional pressures as ideology.
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The most respected Supreme Court reporter of her generation slams media "objectivity"
Linda Greenhouse on why "the opposite of objectivity isn’t partisanship."
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Trump Is Rapidly Reshaping the Judiciary. Here’s How.
Republican lawyers and lawmakers are working together to install conservative judges on the influential federal appeals courts at a clip not seen in decades.
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Why Rumors of a Gorsuch–Kagan Clash at the Supreme Court Are Such a Bombshell
If rumors leak about a justice’s behavior in conference, it is almost certainly a justice who leaked them.
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Ginsburg Slaps Gorsuch in Gerrymandering Case
The newest Justice tried to give a lecture about the Constitution. His colleague had other ideas.
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How Badly Is Neil Gorsuch Annoying the Other Supreme Court Justices?
There is a strong internal culture based on the idea that no Justice should embarrass the Court.
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U.S. cracks down on debt collection of private student loans
The U.S. consumer financial watchdog on Monday ordered National College Student Loan Trusts and its debt collector, Transworld Systems Inc, to pay at least $26.1 million for attempting to collect on possibly non-existent or out-of-date loans. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleged that the companies sued borrowers without being able to prove the debt was owed or pursued collection on loans that were too old to sue over, and relied on false and misleading legal documents.
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A Judge Wants a Bigger Role for Female Lawyers. So He Made a Rule.
After a report showed a low percentage of women as lead lawyers, Judge Jack Weinstein has urged for more substantive roles for junior female lawyers in his courtroom.
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Let Consumers Sue Companies
When a data breach at Home Depot in 2014 led to losses for banks nationwide, a group of banks filed a class-action lawsuit seeking compensation. Companies have the choice of taking legal action together. Yet consumers are frequently blocked from exercising the same legal right when they believe that companies have wronged them. That’s because many contracts for products like credit cards and bank accounts have mandatory arbitration clauses that prevent consumers from joining group lawsuits, forcing them to go it alone.
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Subway store sues after worker cleared of drugging officer
A Subway shop where a worker was cleared of drugging a Utah police officer’s drink filed a lawsuit Wednesday saying police waited two months to publicly disavow the headline-making allegations despite internal evidence the officer had no drugs in his system.
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Opinion | Female Lawyers Can Talk, Too
Too many are relegated to the courtroom sidelines. That needs to change.
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Ray Spencer Didn't Molest His Kids. So Why Did He Spend 20 Years in Prison for It?
Matt and Katie accused their father of sexual abuse. Then they started to question their memories.
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She Was Convicted of Killing Her Mother. Prosecutors Withheld the Evidence That Would Have Freed Her.
By the time Noura Jackson’s conviction was overturned, she had spent nine years in prison. This type of prosecutorial error is almost never punished.
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On Justice Ginsburg’s Summer Docket: Blunt Talk on Big Cases
The most outspoken member of the Supreme Court avoided talking about President Trump, a subject that caused her grief last year, but remained candid in discussing the court.
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‘A Bleak Picture’ for Women Trying to Rise at Law Firms
Women make up just under 35 percent of lawyers at law firms, a Law360 report found, and their share of equity partnerships remains at 20 percent.
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Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail
Prosecution of white-collar crime is at a twenty-year low.
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