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Connecticut Law Tribune

How Did State's Top Court Discover Judicial Restraint?

Congratulations to Connecticut's Supreme Court for proclaiming the futility of public administration, ruling that a University of Connecticut employee who smoked marijuana while operating a university truck cannot be fired. The court's legal rationale was plausible but there was little consistency to it.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Judge Rules Miccosukees Must Pay Taxes to IRS

By | August 23, 2016
U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga rules against a member of the tribe in a case that should apply to all.
2 minute read

Litigation Daily

The Kids Are Alright--It's Adults Who Get Transgender Bathrooms Wrong

What today's teens would say to a federal judge in Texas who blocked guidance by the Obama administration allowing transgender students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity rather than their biological sex.
11 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida May Rebury Reform School Bodies in the State Capital

Amid a contentious debate that evoked race, spilled blood and child abuse, a state-created task force recommended that Florida move bodies found on the campus of a now-shuttered reform school and bury them somewhere in the state's capital city.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Colombian Rebel Leader Calls on US to Free Jailed Comrade

One of Colombia's most-grizzled and important rebel fighters is calling on President Barack Obama to do more to support peace and to free a guerrilla leader jailed for more than a decade in the United States.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Volunteers Sought as Race to Develop a Zika Vaccine Heats Up

Wanted: Volunteers willing to be infected with the Zika virus for science. It may sound bizarre, but researchers are planning just such a study to help speed development of much-needed Zika vaccines.
11 minute read

National Law Journal

Gold Medal Gymnast Kerri Strug Vaulted to Career at DOJ

Washington might not have noticed that Olympic gold-medal-winning gymnast Kerri Strug was one of them. A bureaucrat, that is.
8 minute read

The Recorder

California-American Water Company v. Marina Coast Water District

By | August 19, 2016
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Lawsuit Challenges HUD's Mortgage Note Sales

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's auctioning off of government-guaranteed mortgages discriminates against African-American homeowners, according to a class action lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Should the Organized Bar Consider Opposing a Trump Presidency?

By | August 19, 2016
Many lawyers, speaking as individuals, have voiced the strongest of objections to a Donald Trump presidency. Yet the organized bar has been silent. We think it is time for the bar to have an open discussion about whether it should actively oppose Mr. Trump.
8 minute read

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