Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board
October 28, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Providing Notice of a Specific Rule Violation in an Attorney PresentmentWe think adequate, constitutionally sufficient notice in an attorney presentment should include the specific violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct
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October 21, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
'The System Worked': State's High Court Weighs in on Jane Doe's Forced Competency RestorationState of Connecticut v. Jane Doe provides a glimpse behind the locked doors of Whiting Forensic Hospital and raises questions about the appropriateness of the state's policies
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October 18, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Connecticut's Courts Rank Highly for Fairness, Rationality and MoreConnecticut made the top ten for Enforcing Meaningful Venue, Proportional Discovery, Scientific and Technical Evidence, and Quality of Appellate Review.
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October 14, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Determining Reasonable Accommodation for Pro Se LitigantsIdlibi v. Hartford Courant Company is instructive on how a self-represented party should be treated in court.
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October 02, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
FOI FYI: Progress Made Against Burying Unsolved Crimes in 'Open Investigations'Associate Justice Raheem Mullins, who wrote for the high court, noted that eventually, cold cases benefit from a fresh pair of eyes, or even "millions of eyes" in our age of the Internet and crowdsourcing. For all the cases where accidental release of facts derailed a prosecution, there are likely as many where more open public information helped solve the matter.
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September 23, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Shockingly Unfair: Electric Rate Payers Deserve a Better Explanation From PURAPURA agreed that the impact of its earlier decision on ratepayers "created justifiable concern" but decided to kneel and run out the clock.
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September 23, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
A Time and Money Saver: CT Should Adopt NY Evidentiary RuleThe producing party likely knows whether a document is authentic. Any additional requirements amount to a waste of time.
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September 19, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
State v. Washington Lives, But Does Not ExtendWhat a panel of three judges does in the context of deciding a murder case remains sacrosanct.
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September 09, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Crisis in Connecticut: Our Growing Wage Complaint BacklogThe taxpayers of Connecticut shouldn't have to foot the bill for wage recovery efforts when malfeasant employers are to blame.
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August 23, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
State-Based Assault Weapons Bans: There's Room for HopeGiven courts' propensity to entertain these suits, it sometimes feels as if Justice Scalia's oft-cited caveat in Heller—that the Second Amendment "is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose"—has been reduced to dicta.
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