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New York Law Journal

'Carpenter' and 'Weaver': Strange Bedfellows?

Cyber Crime columnist Peter A. Crusco analyzes the issues raised in 'Carpenter' and compares them with those in 'Weaver' to shed new light on this evolving and often confusing area of privacy, third-party digital records and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.
13 minute read

Daily Business Review

Tax Cuts and Job Cuts Act: A Game Changer for Alimony and Tax Planning

As we are reading and watching the news over the past few days, Congress has approved and the president is signing into law H.R. 1 of the 115th U.S. Congress, the much debated tax bill set to reshape the federal tax system.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Yale Pushes to Improve Diversity Amid National Trends

Nearly 86 percent of clerks from Yale hired by the justices are white men even though more than half of the university's law students are women, and nearly half are minorities.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Shut Out: SCOTUS Law Clerks Still Mostly White and Male

According to a National Law Journal study, the U.S. Supreme Court's clerk ranks are less diverse than law school graduates or law firm associates—and the justices aren't doing much to change that.
15 minute read

National Law Journal

Nearly 700 Law Clerks Tell Judiciary to Reform Sexual Harassment Procedures

Hundreds of former and current law clerks have urged judicial officers, including Chief Justice John Roberts, to make meaningful reforms to how the judiciary handles sexual harassment and misconduct complaints.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

US Supreme Court Arguments Set in Riviera Beach First Amendment Case

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Feb. 27 in a First Amendment case stemming from the arrest of a frequent government critic as he spoke…
2 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Considering the Rights of a Misidentified Surrogate Child

How should the law decide a case in which a surrogate mother has given birth to two children, only one of whom was the product of in vitro fertilization by the contractual donor?
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

New Sentencing Ordered for Killer in South Beach Kidnap-Murder

The Florida Supreme Court orders a new sentencing hearing in a notorious South Beach kidnap-murder case.
1 minute read

National Law Journal

Roberts Tells Judiciary to Review Safeguards Against Workplace Misconduct

"The Chief Justice has asked me to establish a working group to examine the sufficiency of the safeguards currently in place within the Judiciary to protect court employees, including law clerks, from wrongful conduct in the workplace," James Duff, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Court, said in a memo.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey Has Limited Connection to the World of SCOTUS Clerks

The community of those who've served U.S. Supreme Court clerkships, and the "feeder" judges who shepherd them along, is a world unto itself, and is one with very defined, but also very limited, ties to New Jersey.
4 minute read

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