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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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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collector, Transworld Systems Inc, to pay at least $26.1 million for attempting to collect on possibly non-existent or out-of-date loans.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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Above The Law’s Top 10 Most Popular Posts Of 2017
All the best stories from 2017.
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Kid Rock is being sued by a circus
...OK, not just a circus but the circus: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is suing Kid Rock for infringing on its famous "The Greatest Show On...
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Why courts could rein in executive power – after decades of allowing it
The legal pushback to President Trump's travel ban is part of a growing number of legal challenges in recent years to the expansion of presidential power.
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Opinion | Two Ways of Looking at Gerrymandering
Stepping into the political sphere, the Supreme Court takes up two very different cases involving the redrawing of Congressional lines.
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People Are Fighting Over Charles Manson’s Body
There are multiple claims for the notorious killer’s remains, his property or both. A California court will soon take up the matter.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows Trump she isn't going anywhere, hiring a full slate of law clerks for the 2019 term
So much for speculation that the notorious RBG was ready to pack up her law books.
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Neil Gorsuch Is a Terrible Writer
The Supreme Court justice’s prose is exhausting to read and impossible to take seriously.
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Judge throws out 'diplomatic immunity' argument in rent dispute
Diplomatic immunity doesn't apply to rent bills, according to an Ontario Superior Court justice who on Friday sided with an Ottawa landlord in an unusual legal spat over a luxury townhouse. Last year, Rolf Baumann got a judgment from the Landlord and Tenant Board requiring Betsy Zouroudis, who works at the U.S. Embassy, to pay thousands of dollars in back rent and legal expenses.
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On Tour With Notorious R.B.G., Judicial Rock Star
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s off-the-court schedule is full, with at least nine public appearances over three weeks.
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