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The Prisoner of Park Avenue?: Madoff Appeals in Bid for House Arrest Until Sentencing
ABA Committee Gives Sotomayor Top Rating
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor got a vote of confidence on Tuesday, less than a week before she goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing. The American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, by a unanimous vote, has rated her "well-qualified" for the Court. It's the highest rating the committee gives, and it's the same rating the committee gave to the four most recent additions to the Supreme Court.Disciplinary Suit Filed Against Former Prosecutor in Murder Case
An Abilene judge will see the judicial system from a different perspective as the defendant in a disciplinary suit brought by the Commission for Lawyer Discipline, an arm of the State Bar of Texas.View more book results for the query "White"
Bankruptcy Bar Bashes Reform Bill
The consumer bankruptcy bar is lining up against legislation designed to curb the 1.4 million personal bankruptcies filed annually and rein in some of the country's $40 billion in consumer debt. A controversial provision of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999 would implement a means test to determine who is eligible for Chapter 7. "It's hard to develop a good unified system sometimes in the meat grinder of politics," said Peter Califano, a bankruptcy lawyer in San Francisco.Armed with Dukes Ruling, Reed Smith Slays Class in Discrimination Case Against Wells Fargo
The U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes might not have turned out to be the class action silver bullet that some had anticipated, but that's little consolation to class action plaintiffs lawyers who brought claims against Wells Fargo over allegedly discriminatory subprime lending. On Tuesday San Francisco federal district court judge Maxine Chesney rejected the plaintiffs' motion for class certification, ruling that the proposed class of more than 1 million black and Hispanic homeowners didn't survive the certification standard for commonality set out by the Supreme Court.Post-Summer Employment Law Roundup of Rulings, Legislative Proposals
In this post-summer employment law roundup, attorney Philip M. Berkowitz provides what he calls a "highly arbitrary" selection of significant employment law developments. Berkowitz focuses on proposed and newly enacted federal legislation such as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and Arbitrations Fairness Act, but he also discusses some summertime developments in New York and California employment law that could have serious implications for employers and employees.Trending Stories
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