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Appointed vs. Elected Justices: States' High Courts Take a Hit

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After Citizens United, many people's feelings about electing state justices shifted from concern to dread. Katherine Helm examines the issues and surveys some of the post-Election Day damage. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: States, Elected, Courts, High, Appointed, Justices, Take

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High Court Superstars Take Shots in Vaccine Case

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David Frederick of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel has made a habit of arguing successfully against federal pre-emption before the Supreme Court, which casts him in frequent opposition to big business and pits him against formidable adversaries. On Tuesday, Frederick faced former Stanford Law dean Kathleen Sullivan of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, [...]

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California's New Laws for 2012

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Of 760 bills signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown in 2011, most take effect Jan. 1. Here are some highlights. Take our poll: ywtv.tv -Hand guns: no longer be able to carry handguns openly in public -Bullet train: provides $4 million for planning work on a section of a high-speed rail system proposed between Los [...]

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High School Graduation Cards and Graduation Card for College Graduates

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Graduation Cards and FREE Graduation Card for the Graduate! Obviously, your Graduation from high school, college, law school, or any other educational institution is going to be a very important event for a student. It opens up new doors and starts them on the next path of their lives. When you send Graduation Cards, http://www.graduationcardsshop.com [...]

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High School Physics: Springs and Hooke's Law

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A brief overview of springs, Hooke's Law, and elastic potential energy for algebra-based physics students. For more information, check out Tags: High School Physics, Personal and Class Pages, energy, hookes, Potential

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Kagan Confirmation Sets the Stage for High Court First

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After three months of sparring over Elena Kagan's legal experience and where she falls on the ideological spectrum, the Senate confirmed her as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice on Thursday by a vote of 63-37. All Democrats but one voted for Kagan, while all Republicans but five opposed her. Her confirmation means the Court, [...]

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New Law Would Sideline Students After a Concussion

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Youth and high school sports can be fast paced but a new law in New York State will require schools to sideline students who suffer a concussion for at least 24 hours. The law will also require students to get approval from a doctor before they resume practicing or participating in gym class. Tags: cny, [...]

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Lawyering Suits Pile Up at High Court

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From client advice to attorney fees to ineffective assistance of counsel, the U.S. Supreme Court decided an unusually large number of cases last term involving how lawyers do their jobs. In total, the lawyering cases amounted to nearly 20 percent of the Court's decision docket. Professor Renee Knake of Michigan State University College of Law, [...]

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High Court All Over the Map in 'Bilski'

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After more than 60 briefs on both sides and an eight-month vigil for the ruling among patent lawyers, the decision in Bilski v. Kappos issued Monday may have done little to end the debate over what kinds of innovations are or are not eligible for patents. The long-awaited decision was supposed to resolve the patent [...]

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High Court Narrows 'Honest Services' Fraud Law

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The U.S. Supreme Court, racing toward the finish line of the current term, handed down seven decisions this morning. Tops among them are the three "honest services" fraud cases -- including one involving former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling -- that resulted in a significant narrowing of the law to reach only bribery and kickback schemes. [...]

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High Court Upholds Anti-Terror Law

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In one of four decisions handed down today, the Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge and ruled 6-3 in favor of a federal law making it a crime to knowingly provide "material support" to designated foreign terrorist organizations. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority that the law is not unconstitutionally vague, [...]

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Announcing High Court Nomination, Obama Cites Kagan's Temperament, Intellect

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Announcing his decision to nominate Elena Kagan, the first female solicitor general of the United States, to the U.S. Supreme Court, President Barack Obama this morning described Kagan as "one of the foremost legal minds" in the country and someone who approaches issues and problems by "understanding before disagreeing." If confirmed, Kagan, 50, would be [...]

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High Court Faces Blockbuster Cases as Stevens' Retirement Nears

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This is the Supreme Court's final week of argument, with four cases left on the docket and dozens more still to be decided. It also marks the last time Justice John Paul Stevens is expected to hear arguments with his fellow justices. Stevens is scheduled to sit for his last argument Wednesday in Doe v. [...]

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Pressure Grows to Pick a Nonjudge for the High Court

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With nine former federal appellate judges on the current Supreme Court, some are saying: Enough already. Even if President Barack Obama ultimately puts a federal judge on the Court -- as all his predecessors have done since Ronald Reagan named state judge and former legislator Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981 -- the push for more [...]

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High Court Hands Lawyers a Mixed Bag in Rulings on Fees, Errors

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The U.S. Supreme Court had good and bad news for lawyers Wednesday in a pair of decisions, one on attorney fee awards, and the other on lawyers' liability for errors in debt-collection cases. In the fees case, which has been highly anticipated by civil rights and public interest groups that depend on fee-shifting statutes when [...]

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High Court Justices Consider Privacy Issues in Text Messaging Case

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with the privacy expectations of public employees in a case involving workplace monitoring of text messages. In City of Ontario, Calif. v. Quon, the city is asking the justices to overturn a 9th Circuit ruling holding that it violated the Fourth Amendment privacy rights of Jeffrey Quon, a [...]

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White House Said to Be Widening Search for High Court Nominee

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Washington's spin machine has cycled into high gear, churning out a new set of names as possible contenders to fill Justice John Paul Stevens' seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Though speculation about the potential nominee always increases in the day or two after a justice's retirement announcement, it may also signal a genuine effort [...]

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Stevens' Departure Leaves Big Shoes to Fill at High Court

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When Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens departs at the end of the current term, he will be remembered as a one-time centrist maverick who became a powerful leader of the Court's liberal wing. His retirement sets up the likelihood of a contentious confirmation battle, almost no matter whom President Barack Obama nominates to replace [...]

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Spin or Win for Investment Industry in High Court Mutual Funds Case?

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The investment industry declared victory Tuesday as the Supreme Court ruled in a closely watched case that investor advocates had hoped would make it easier to challenge high fees charged by advisers in the $9 trillion mutual fund business. But industry critics also claimed a win, saying the decision allows plaintiffs to use the kinds [...]

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Ill. Appellate Court Revives Tobacco Case Five Years After State High Court Dismissed $10.1 Billion Judgment

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Relying partly on a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, an Illinois appellate court has revived a tobacco case that generated a $10 billion judgment on the class action's first run through the state court system. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: after, state, years, Ill., $10.1

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