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State Supreme Court Rules School Board Must Consider Self-Defense in Student Fight Case

After three-and-a-half years of litigating, the Henry County Board of Education will have to take another look at its decision to expel a student for fighting and consider her claims of self-defense.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania's Minor Judiciary Has an Ethics Problem

A review by The Legal shows that just over two-thirds of all disciplinary actions taken by the Judicial Conduct Board from 1993 to 2016 involved MDJs, including judges of the now-defunct Philadelphia Traffic Court and former district justices.
14 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Houston-Area Courts Crippled by Hurricane Harvey

Federal and state courts along the Texas Gulf Coast have closed their doors and suspended all operations, grinding to a near halt one of the busiest jurisdictions in the country.
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Hurricane Harvey Victims Facing Huge Insurance Deadline This Week, Warn Lawyers

Texas lawyers have some crucial advice for victims of Hurricane Harvey: notify your insurance company of home or business damage before Sept. 1 or suffer the consequences of a new state law that reduces the penalties insurers pay for delaying or denying claims.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Gwinnett Sheriff, U.S. Attorney Host Second Screening of 'Released'

U.S. Attorney John Horn announces a second screening of a 45-minute documentary he calls "our movie"—"Released: When Does the Sentence End?" Horn's office commissioned the film.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

O'Halloran v. Metropolitan Transp. Auth.

Relation-Back Doctrine Properly Permitted Addition of Sexual Orientation Bias Claim
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Unpublished Opinions for the Week of August 28, 2017

01-2-4060 In the Matter of Russell S. Cline, N.J. Super. App. Div. (per curiam) (16 pp.) Russell Cline appealed from the final agency decision of the…
64 minute read

New York Law Journal

USA v. Krug

Common Interest Rule of Attorney-Client Privilege Not Supported in Case Against Police
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Justices' Stalemate Means New Chance for Death-Row Inmate

Just over a year after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated Terrance Williams' death sentence based on a finding that former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille should have recused from the case, a four-justice state Supreme Court has deadlocked on remand, letting stand a lower court's ruling entitling Williams to a new penalty phase of his trial.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Farrow, PICS Case No. 17-1272 (Pa. Super. July 27, 2017) Olson, J. (25 pages).

Trial court erred in convicting and sentencing on three DUI counts arising from a single incident, even where two convictions resulted in guilty without further penalty, where additional counts represented sentencing enhancements and not distinct criminal statutes. Conviction vacated in part and affirmed in part, case remanded for resentencing.
3 minute read

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