The National Law Journal

June 06, 2005 | National Law Journal

According to statistics released by the Women's Rights Project, domestic violence is a major contributor to homelessness of women and children.

By Vivian BergerSpecial to The National Law Journal

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April 02, 2007 | National Law Journal

We know about the reported inequity of indigent uninsured U.S. patients having to face sizable U.S. hospital bills while large health insurers receive heavy discounts. But a different spin on this relatively common discussion is taking place in the international arena.

By Brian S. Inamine / Special to The National Law Journal

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December 19, 2005 | National Law Journal

With its occasional release of audiotapes and its routine practice of posting oral-argument transcripts on its Web site, the Supreme Court has moved toward greater openness. But, in a society that so routinely learns its news and information from television, that final step is an important one.

By Dick Thornburgh and David R. FineSpecial to The National Law Journal

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January 26, 2004 | National Law Journal

To Britney Spears, marriage, is like, �crazy, man.� But to legions of gay men and women, it is a serious and meaningful moment, which they are denied under civil law. That injustice should end.

By Jack B. HarrisonSpecial to The National Law Journal

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October 18, 2006 | National Law Journal

The American consumer was the big loser in the recent price-fixing indictment of Stolt-Nielsen S.A.

By Alison L. Smith/Special to The National Law Journal

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September 22, 2008 | National Law Journal

The high court's Second Amendment decision last term, with its historic affirmation of an individual right to keep and bear arms, is being read as a harbinger of doom by gun control advocates, and as cause for celebration by the National Rifle Association and its allies. In fact, it could play out exactly the other way around. District of Columbia v. Heller may finally open the door to sensible gun policy in the United States, and it could be the start of the end for the NRA, at least as we know it today.

By David M. Kennedy / Special to The National Law Journal

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February 02, 2004 | National Law Journal

Roger B. Colton, a juvenile court judge in Palm Beach County, Fla., says he's just doing his job when he reports illegal child immigrants to the U.S. Border Patrol.

By Tresa BaldasSpecial to The National Law Journal

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February 06, 2006 | National Law Journal

The Food and Drug Administration may be on the verge of adopting a proposal that will bar an injured party from attacking the adequacy of an FDA-approved warning in products liability cases. The change represents nothing short of a major revolution in thinking about the interaction of tort liability and administrative oversight.

By Richard A. EpsteinSpecial to The National Law Journal

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November 29, 2006 | National Law Journal

Although some progressive companies provide mother-friendly environments, many more businesses do not. Regrettably, the courts uniformly reject suits under current federal statutes to ban discrimination against, or require accommodations for, new mothers on the job.

By Vivian Berger/Special to The National Law Journal

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May 31, 2004 | National Law Journal

Many lament the decline of lawyer ethics, but exactly how has the new competitive nature of legal practice affected the American law firm? Partly for the worse, as high stakes and intense competition leads to cheating. But it has also opened a once closed profession and had other salutory effects.

By Richard A. EpsteinSpecial to The National Law Journal

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