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The Legal Intelligencer

Courts to Revise Juvenile Lifers' Sentences in Light of New Guidance

With the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issuing a much-anticipated ruling on juveniles' prison sentences of life without parole, Pennsylvania courts have begun to move forward toward resentencing hundreds of persons who had sentences struck down as unconstitutional.
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The Recorder

Santa Ana Police Officers Association v. City of Santa Ana

C.A. 4th; G053126 The Fourth Appellate District affirmed in part and reversed in part a judgment. The court held that police officers did not have an…
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY Health Insurance Exchange Plans Not Seeking Enrollment Caps as in Other States

The Department of Financial Services on July 6 said that no insurer participating in the state's health exchange will cap the number of people who enroll for coverage, as insurers offering plans on other state health exchanges across the country have done.
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Daily Report Online

Sovereign Immunity Bars Suit by Inmate Burned Repairing Truck, Appeals Court Rules

With one of three judges "reluctantly" concurring, a Georgia Court of Appeals panel has reversed a trial court and ruled against an inmate who was badly burned while doing maintenance work on a garbage truck.
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The Recorder

6 Ways California Can Entice Banks to Serve Marijuana Clients

Two bankers suggest to the California treasurer's Cannabis Working Group six things the state can do to entice banks to accept marijuana businesses and ease concerns about federal regulators.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Lawyer for Sentenced Judge in Rochester Files Appeal

The lawyer for Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio, who received a 60-day jail sentence and three years of probation on a driving while intoxicated charge has filed an appeal of the sentence.
2 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

States Flex Their Constitutional Muscles

Asking the Connecticut Legislature to rule on these matters might impede its rapid progress on approving a budget.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Recording Cops in Public Protected by 1st Amendment, 3rd Circuit Rules

In a time when police activity is under increased scrutiny, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has joined a growing list of federal courts that say the recording of police officers in public is protected by the First Amendment.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Challenge to Law Opening Private Cemeteries to Public Fails

Rose Mary Knick's troubles started when a nearby Lackawanna County family claimed their ancestors were buried under her property.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

'Runner' Scheme Means Prison for NJ Brothers

Two Colts Neck brothers have been sentenced to six-and-a-half-year prison terms for operating an insurance fraud ring in which they paid "runners" to recruit car crash victims as patients for chiropractic facilities they owned and operated.
6 minute read

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