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The Legal Intelligencer

Time Has Passed to Change Judicial-Retirement Ballot Question, State Argues

Changing the wording of the ballot question on the mandatory judicial retirement age in Pennsylvania would create a logistical nightmare that would only further the "cycle of uncertainty" that has plagued the constitutional amendment in recent months, the secretary of state argued Wednesday in an answer and new matter filed with the state Supreme Court.
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Daily Report Online

15 More Lawyers Added to Georgia Supreme Court Nomination List

View the complete list of 94 lawyers and judges who have been nominated to date for vacancies on the state's high court.
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Daily Report Online

11th Circ. Sides With City's Sex Toy Ban—For Now

While inviting a petition for en banc review, the panel on Tuesday upheld the ban in Sandy Springs, which has been fighting adult establishments since the suburban Atlanta city's incorporation in 2005.
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Supreme Court Brief

How Supreme Court Decisions Play in Presidential Elections

What do Citizens United, Roe v. Wade and Dred Scott have in common? Presidential candidates have targeted those and other U.S. Supreme Court decisions in their campaigns since the election of 1860 and with little success at making them game-changing issues. "I think the current election has in some ways accelerated the trend of making the court a more prominent election issue," said William G. Ross of Samford University Cumberland School of Law. "There have been more comments by candidates in the primaries about the role of the court and the significance of the election for appointment of justices."
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Daily Business Review

Jury Awards $4.6 Million to Man Wrongly Arrested for Bomb Threat

South Florida lawyers won a $4.6 million verdict for a man falsely accused of making a bomb threat against New World Tower in downtown Miami.
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The Legal Intelligencer

FJD Leaders Added to Phila. Civil-Forfeiture Class Action

Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit challenging the civil-forfeiture practices of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office are seeking to add four top officials of the First Judicial District as defendants.
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The Legal Intelligencer

'Pioneer' Bonavitacola Remembered, Mourned

Former Philadelphia Judge Alex Bonavitacola, who held the powerful posts of both administrative judge and president judge at different times and died of heart failure at 85 on July 29, was hailed by colleagues as a "pioneer" who helped change the court system from one plagued by backlogs to one seen as a model of efficiency.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Man Gets 5 Years of Probation for Threats Against Judges, Officials

A Florida man who sent death threats to several officials in Connecticut, including two federal judges, was sentenced on Tuesday to five years of probation.
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Daily Report Online

Here's Who's Been Nominated For the Supreme Court of Georgia So Far

The Judicial Nominating Commission had received nominations of 79 judges and lawyers as of Tuesday morning.
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Daily Report Online

Lawyer Helped Judge Survive Obscenity Scandal

A Cartersville lawyer's negotiation helped a Rome Judicial Circuit judge avoid harsh punishment after an obscenity-laced courtroom exchange with a defendant went viral.
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