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Grand jury weighs sodomy claim against NYPD cops
NEW YORK AP - On the afternoon of Oct. 15, a body piercer named Michael Mineo was approached by a group of police officers who thought he was smoking marijuana. Mineo fled into a subway station, argued with the officers, and was issued a ticket for disorderly conduct.But what really happened inside that subway station is highly contested, and has led to one of the most explosive allegations of police brutality by the NYPD in recent memory.Judicial salaries scandalously low
THE TIMING WAS exquisitely ironic: At virtually the same time the Daily Report announced that the Georgia Legislature, for another year, would fail to approve legislation raising pay for members of the judiciary "Signs Point Away from Judicial Raises This Year," April 10, it was also reporting on the "lavish" pay raises being enjoyed by first-year associates at Atlanta's largest law firms "Stressing the Machine," April 23.Judge Arnold Shulman, 1914-2010
Former Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Arnold Shulman died Aug. 4. A 1936 graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, Shulman was in private practice, broken by a three-year stint in the U.S. Army, until 1977, when he was appointed to the Court of Appeals. In 1983 he became the first Jewish chief judge of that court.A Civil Action' lawyer makes poker his new cause; hopes for relaxing of legal restrictions
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. AP - A Harvard Law School professor best known for defending the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers and for helping parents sue chemical companies in a case popularized by the film "A Civil Action" has a new cause: poker.Charles Nesson wants governments to relax restrictions on poker players.Ethics group urges judicial candidates to stay positive
A gathering organized Thursday by a judicial campaign ethics group urged candidates for an open seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals to avoid negative campaigning and other acts common in other political races.Five of the seven candidates for the seat participated in Thursday's "convocation" by the Georgia Committee for Ethical Judicial Campaigns.
Avoiding the nightmare of class discrimination litigation
Not all press is good press. No corporation wants to see its brand publicly associated with employment discrimination and multimillion-dollar lawsuits, particularly now that the Internet enables collective memory to extend far beyond the headlines of the last few weeks.Bermuda takes 4 Uighur detainees from Gitmo
WASHINGTON AP - Four Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay prison were freed Thursday and resettled in Bermuda, sparking complaints from China and Britain even as the Obama administration tried to iron out details for sending more detainees to the Pacific island of Palau.The four were among 17 Chinese Muslims, or Uighurs, picked up in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2001.SEC: BofA GC's firing not caused by merger advice
DailyGobble chases Groupon's success
A former Microsoft Corp. product manager who once worked for Michael Dell's hedge fund aims to do for restaurants what Expedia Inc. does for airplanes: fill empty seats during off-peak hours.Dazhi Chen, a Harvard Business School alumnus, has amassed a staff of 20 from postings on Craigslist.com and is betting half a million dollars that his website, DailyGobble.Predictive Coding Excitement v. Caution
Feedback is flying fast around the recent affirmation of Magistrate Judge Andew Peck's predictive coding order in the potentially historic labor law case of Monique da Silva Moore v. Publicis Group SA in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.Trending Stories
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