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The DEA Just Approved a Way to Smoke Marijuana Legally for the First Time
Drug regulators changed their minds after saying it would “never” happen. The unofficial pot-smoking holiday of April 20 may be over, but marijuana advocates got another reason to celebrate on Thursday. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for the first time approved smoking marijuana as legitimate medical research. The DEA green-lit a clinical trial of smoked marijuana for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder...
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Photographer Files $1 Billion Suit Against Getty for Licensing Her Public Domain Images
In December, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website.
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Jury Trials Vanish, and Justice Is Served Behind Closed Doors
The criminal trial ended more than two and a half years ago, but Judge Jesse M. Furman can still vividly recall the case....In his four-plus years on the bench in Federal District Court in Manhattan, it was his only criminal jury trial.
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Criminal Defendants Sometimes ‘Left Behind’ at Supreme Court, Study Shows
The quality of advocacy at the Supreme Court these days is quite high. “We have an extraordinary group of lawyers who appear very regularly before us,” Justice Elena Kagan said in 2014 at a Justice Department event. But there was, she said, one exception.
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Goodbye to ‘Honeys’ in Court, by Vote of American Bar Association
It is official. The American Bar Association says it is professional misconduct to discriminate against or harass opposing counsel, or anyone else for that matter, in the course of practicing law.
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Peer Monitor Index Slumps in Second Quarter/Demand for Legal Services Drops for First Time Since 2013
After an encouraging first quarter, the (legal) market was blindsided in the second quarter. A drop in demand across nearly all practices took the lift out from under the market’s wings. A slight increase in worked rates was not nearly enough to make up for the shortfall in demand. Meanwhile, rising headcount and overhead expenses, and falling productivity added up to a near-perfect storm .
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George Soros' quiet overhaul of the U.S. justice system
Progressives have zeroed in on electing prosecutors as an avenue for criminal justice reform, and the billionaire financier is providing the cash to make it happen.
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Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan Muse Over a Cookie-Cutter Supreme Court
As the Supreme Court prepares to return to the bench next month, its two newest members have been reflecting on the absence of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February, and on the striking lack of diversity among the remaining justices.
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Obama Just Nominated A Muslim To Be A Federal Judge. That's A First.
Abid Qureshi would fill a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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Outrage after judge tells rape victim 'pain and sex go together'
A Canadian judge who sparked outrage with wildly offensive comments to a teen rape victim in his court is facing a disciplinary hearing, but plans to fight to retain his privileged position. Justice Robin Camp reportedly berated the 19-year-old victim for not "closing her knees" or putting her "ass in the sink", told her "pain and sex sometimes go together" and referred to her as "the accused" during the trial. The case has been cited by women's rights campaigners as a prime example of why women fear to report cases of sexual abuse.
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Banned! Taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower at night
Unless you include a disclaimer — and other quirks of European copyright law.
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Court Leader or Leading Dissenter? Chief Justice’s Fate Tied to Election
A pick by President Obama or Hillary Clinton would put Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in the minority in many close cases, or even nudge him to the left.
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Fly Fishing and the Art of Criminal Defense
When I landed a job as a public defender in my hometown, Reno, Nev., fresh out of law school in 2004, I had no practical experience with the criminal justice system.
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Fearing Trump, Bar Association Stifles Report Calling Him a ‘Libel Bully’
Alarmed by Donald J. Trump’s record of filing lawsuits to punish and silence his critics, a committee of media lawyers at the American Bar Association commissioned a report on Mr. Trump’s litigation history. The report concluded that Mr. Trump was a “libel bully” who had filed many meritless suits attacking his opponents and had never won in court. But the bar association refused to publish the report, citing “the risk of the A.B.A. being sued by Mr. Trump.”
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Judge Richard Posner On SCOTUS: ‘The Supreme Court Is Awful’
Judge Posner thinks that only two justices are qualified to sit on the high court.
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The Provocative Life of Judge Richard Posner
Once in every great while, nature and nurture combine in a single person the qualities of erratic genius, herculean work ethic and irrepressible ambition.
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Trump University lawsuit nears $25m payout
Donald Trump is nearing settlements in several fraud lawsuits relating to Trump University, the BBC has learned. The US president-elect is being sued by former students who paid $35,000 (£28,000) for real estate "secrets" from his "hand-picked" instructors. Mr Trump was criticised as a candidate for saying that the California judge hearing the case could not be impartial because he is of Mexican heritage. The businessman faces three fraud lawsuits in California and New York.
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Judge disciplined for offering to pay teenage girl's fine
A judge has been disciplined for offering to pay a fine for a teenager who stabbed her abuser in the stomach. The 15-year-old girl had admitted attacking the man, who sexually assaulted her as a child. After giving her a two-year youth rehabilitation order, the judge offered to pay a fine, known as a victim surcharge, on her behalf. But following complaints, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC was disciplined for not demonstrating impartiality.
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Potential US Commerce, Transportation Secretaries Voice Support of Jones Act - O'Bryan Law
The Jones Act is absolutely the backbone of both American maritime law, and the American shipping & shipbuilding industries. Nearly every aspect of American maritime law is affected by the Jones Act, from requiring American vessels to be used to transport goods within American waters, to requiring American shipbuilding operations be kept at home, to …
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Bill O’Reilly Is Gone, But Fox News’s Legal Nightmare Continues
The Murdochs hoped firing Bill O’Reilly would signal a changing culture at Fox News. “We want to underscore our consistent commitment to fostering a work environment built on the values of trust and respect,” Rupert and his sons, James and Lachlan, wrote in a memo to Fox News employees on Wednesday. But the dismissal of Fox News’s highest rated host isn’t going to end the crisis at the network. The toxic culture, fostered for 20 years by former CEO Roger Ailes, is proving far more difficult to remedy.
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