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Right to Refuse Medical Treatment Limited by High Court
Unless they also serve as health care agents, plenary guardians do not have the ability to refuse life-preserving medical treatment for incompetent people not suffering from end-stage conditions or who are permanently unconscious, the state Supreme Court has ruled.Outside Law Firm Cybersecurity Under Scrutiny
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is auditing the cybersecurity practices at its outside law firms, partly under pressure from government regulators.U.S. told to defend secret court actions
A Bush administration defense of secret judicial proceedings in a post-Sept. 11 challenge may encounter a more skeptical U.S. Supreme Court two years after the terrorist attacks.Association Installs New Slate of Officers
Princeton attorney Richard Steen was sworn-in as the 112th president of the New Jersey State Bar Association at its Annual Meeting and Convention in Atlantic City.Spoliation of Evidence: Considerations and Remedies
Kevin G. Faley and Andrea M. Alonso, partners at Morris Duffy Alonso & Faley, write that the courts consider a broad range of factors in deciding when and what spoliation remedies are appropriate, and at the very least, there must be a duty to preserve evidence in order to sustain a spoliation claim and the court will then ask if the evidence is essential to the case and whether either party is prejudiced without it.Celebrity Endorsements: Your Morals Clause Return Policy
On November 5 in Edenbridge, U.K., a 30-foot-tall model of Lance Armstrong was burned to celebrate Guy Fawkes' failed plot to blow up the Parliament. The giant Armstrong likeness held a Tour de France cup in one hand and a sign in the other, which read, "For sale, racing bike, no longer required."Silence Still Golden for Nontestifying Defendants
Prosecutors may not use nontestifying defendants' pre-Miranda silence as substantive evidence of their guilt, a sharply split state Superior Court has ruled.Trending Stories
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