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October 28, 2009 | National Law Journal

Cancer patients seek to overturn ban on paying for bone marrow

Prohibiting someone from making money for donating an irreplaceable kidney is one thing. But what about donating bone marrow, which replenishes itself within weeks? That question is at the heart of a new lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal law that prohibits compensating bone marrow donors.
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October 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

Lazar pleads guilty to three counts

Seymour Lazar, the first person to be charged in the government's criminal case against Milberg Weiss, agreed to plead guilty on Thursday morning to three charges. Lazar agreed to plead guilty to one count of filing false tax returns and one count of obstruction of justice. He also admitted he made false statements in court and agreed to forfeit about $1.5 million in alleged kickbacks.
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October 02, 2007 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court declines review of contraceptives law

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to enter a dispute over whether some religious organizations can be forced to pay for workers' birth-control health insurance benefits, letting stand a ruling upholding a New York law that forces religious-based social service agencies to subsidize contraceptives as part of prescription drug coverage. Religious groups argued the law violates their First Amendment rights because it forces them to violate religious teachings that regard contraception as sinful.
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October 17, 2011 | National Law Journal

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April 26, 2010 | National Law Journal

Movers

Peter Darrow joins DLA Piper's corporate finance practice as partner in the New York office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
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April 30, 2012 | National Law Journal

The globalization of the tort bar

Current and former affiliates of the British mining conglomerate find themselves under assault by three shifting alliances of English, American and South African lawyers.
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May 21, 2007 | National Law Journal

States mull ban on mandatory O.T. for nurses

Proposed legislation that would prohibit or limit mandatory overtime for nurses could open a new avenue to bring lawsuits against hospitals, warn labor and employment lawyers.
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March 13, 2009 | National Law Journal

Texas law professor fights for for data on impact of 700-mile fence along Texas-Mexico border

A University of Texas clinical law professor is asking a federal court to order federal officials to comply with a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request for documents that would show the full impact of the controversial 700-mile fence being built along the Texas-Mexico border. Prof. Denise Gilman, represented by the Public Citizen Litigation Group, filed a FOIA request last April for records showing where the fence would be built, including maps, surveys and appraisals of affected properties. She also sought information about the criteria for deciding where segments of the wall would be built and agency assessments of the impact of the wall on surrounding communities.
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March 13, 2009 | National Law Journal

Texas law professor fights for for data on impact of 700-mile fence along Texas-Mexico border

A University of Texas School of Law clinical law professor is asking a federal court to order federal officials to comply with a Freedom of Information request for documents that would show the full impact of the controversial 700-mile fence being built along the Texas-Mexico border. Professor Denise Gilman, represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group, filed a FOIA request last April for records showing where the fence would be built, including maps, surveys and appraisals of affected properties.
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May 07, 2007 | National Law Journal

Chief justice ponders supreme court's declining caseload

The number of cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court is declining in part because of the lack of significant legislation coming out of Congress, Chief Justice John Roberts said at the Alaska Bar Association's annual convention. "No one actually knows why the number of cases we are taking is declining," Roberts said Thursday. Another possible reason, he said, is that circuit courts can locate previous legal decisions online in cases where they might have once turned to the Supreme Court for guidance.
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