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The Legal Intelligencer

Letter to the Editor: The Race to the Bottom

I usually do not keep the daily copies of The Legal. I either pass it on, or send it to our library. However, I will keep this copy. I will keep this copy to remind me that the Philadelphia legal community has gone backwards—not forward.
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New York Law Journal

NYC Defends Police Officers Accused of Misconduct No Matter How Egregious

I have been handling litigation for plaintiffs for more than two decades involving allegations of police misconduct, and I have never seen the city decline to represent a police civil defendant no matter how egregious the apparent misconduct.
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New York Law Journal

Life Without Parole Shouldn't Be an Option in NY State

Now that the Legislature is considering removing the death penalty from the Criminal Procedure Law and Penal Law, this is a good opportunity to eliminate life without parole too.
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New York Law Journal

Four-Judge Panels Reduce Chances of Cases Going to Court of Appeals

Four-judge panels are unfair to litigants because they reduce the chances of taking a case to the Court of Appeals: dissents by two out of four justices are simply harder to come by than dissents by two out of five.
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New York Law Journal

Authors Don't Understand How Surrogacy Works

There are no forced abortions or rejections of imperfect babies, nor do carriers suppress desires to keep babies which are not theirs.
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New York Law Journal

Law Must Reflect That Women in Custody Can't Give Consent

The physical evidence establishing the detectives' DNA and video evidence of the victim being in the NYPD van has never been refuted.
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New York Law Journal

Commercial Surrogacy Breeds False Equality Between Sperm, Egg and Nine Months of Pregnancy and Childbirth

Viewing a woman as merely a vessel for property that contractually belongs to “intentional parents” erodes and is in direct conflict with the grounds for a woman's right to an abortion.
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New York Law Journal

Law Journal Criticized for Running Columns Demonizing White Men

Columnist Vivia Chen demonstrates classic "racism," namely, judging a person on the basis of skin color, as well as gender.
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New York Law Journal

Attorneys Shouldn't Have to Go Through Metal Detectors to Enter Courthouses

Why is it that attorneys, who now carry state and federally issued bar identity cards so that they may carry their phones into a courthouse, must wait on line to pass through metal detectors, emptying pockets, removing outer garments, suit jackets, shoes and belt?
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Daily Report Online

State Bar Applauds Naming of City Council Chambers for Arrington

Atlanta City Council is congratulated for its recent action naming its council chamber in honor of former Fulton County Superior Court Judge Marvin S. Arrington Sr., who served as the council's president for 17 years.
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