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Three Students Sue School Chief
A Pennsylvania school district already faced with a suit filed by three students who allege they were expelled from high school without due process of law could be slapped with a class action suit by the ACLU. A lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union said the group is considering filing the suit on behalf of students who were deprived 14th Amendment rights by a hard-nosed superintendent.Griffith Leaves Klett Rooney For Fox Rothschild
Saying he needs a larger base to support his intellectual property and plaintiff class action caseload, veteran litigator James L. Griffith has left Klett Rooney Lieber Schorling and joined Fox Rothschild.Pa. Govt. Wins $51 Mil. Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson
The Commonwealth Court has entered a more than $51 million bench verdict in favor of the Pennsylvania state government against pharmaceutical manufacturer Johnson & Johnson for allegedly overcharging state programs and consumers for prescription drug reimbursements.Hiring Booms, Pay Scales Inch Up
New Jersey's biggest firms hired more novice lawyers this year than last, and entry-level compensation rose modestly. Starting compensation, including bonuses, for first-year associates went up an average of 2.75 percent at 17 firms, to $98,200 in 2005 from $95,570 last year, according to a Law Journal survey. Those same firms hired 135 new associates this year, up 17 percent from the 115 they hired last year. Nine firms hired more, six hired less and two kept flat.View more book results for the query "University of Pittsburgh"
Latest Plan to Split 9th Circuit Aims to Sidestep Debate
Their proposal to split the 9th Circuit stalled in the U.S. Senate last year. So House Republicans have taken a new approach: Attach a split proposal into a provision for new judgeships and tuck it into a $35 billion spending-cut bill. With the Senate seen as the key stumbling block to splitting the circuit -- historically a cause championed by conservatives worried that California tilts the nine-state court too far to the left -- the latest move is seen as a headlong charge toward breaking up the court.Hiring Booms, Pay Scales Inch Up
New Jersey's biggest firms hired more novice lawyers this year than last, and entry-level compensation, with bonuses, rose to an average of $98,200. Legal staff recruiters and managing partners say the economy is experiencing a nice bounce back from the post-Sept. 11 hiring slump. And lateral hiring is still the tool of choice for firms seeking to bulk up on productive practice areas.Circuit Decides When to Say It's Been Overruled
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Wednesday gave its panels and lower court judges freer rein to ignore the appeal court's own precedents when they've been undermined by more recent Supreme Court decisions. The decision comes in a case over whether Nevada child welfare workers are entitled to qualified or absolute immunity. But the outcome turned on how much deference to give a prior Ninth Circuit precedent when a more recent Supreme Court decision called that ruling into question.9th Circuit Says Own Precedent May in Some Cases Be Ignored
A unanimous 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday gave more latitude to its panels and lower court judges on how much deference to give a 9th Circuit precedent when the ruling is called into question by a more recent Supreme Court decision. "We hold that the issues decided by the higher court need not be identical in order to be controlling," wrote Chief Judge Mary Schroeder in Miller v. Gammie.Trending Stories
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